Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Not the most attractive thing we have in the garden, but it's a little beauty nonetheless,
happily converting our organic waste (vegetable scraps, egg shells etc, even paper and
cardboard) into liquid fertiliser (worm tea) and solid fertiliser (worm castings) for the garden.
Unsurprisingly I don't get a lot of help with this job, but our youngest (8) was
very keen to help spread the worm tea around the garden. He even helped out as a hand
model showing off one of the Tiger worms while I tried to sketch it.
very keen to help spread the worm tea around the garden. He even helped out as a hand
model showing off one of the Tiger worms while I tried to sketch it.
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