Is tomorrow night. Been painting a bit too - here is a wee sample of my acrylic experimenting - hope my subject (Dad!) likes it (not that he knew what I have been up to!)

 

Through intricate motions ran

Stream and gliding sun

And all my heart seemed gay:

Some stupid thing that I had done

Made my attention stray.

 

Repentance keeps my heart impure;

But what am I that dare

Fancy that I can

Better conduct myself or have more

Sense than a common man?

 

What motion of the sun or stream

Or eyelid shot the gleam

That pierced my body through?

What made me live like these that seem

Self-born, born anew?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had a nice couple of days on 13th and 14th. Mum called early on the 13th, and then I went climbing  at Waterworks Quarry with Nick and Keith, and led a couple of bolted chameleon routes (you know the sort - grade and moves change every time you do 'em) including a 21 which is probably now a 22 due to my removal of some holds...Then went for a mountain bike ride with the same crew plus wee Jen on her new Scott Spark (the full suss version of my Scale), and after putting in the hard yards slogging uphill to Ferntree, I discovered that my brakes had died, and I needed new pads - the alarming scraping of piston on rotor persuaded me to avoid any techy downhill and I limped home on the fronts. Next up, a night walk with Marls replacing Jen, from the Springs up the Ice-house track to the summit of Mt Wellie and down Zig-Zag through lots of crunchy snow, with beautiful city views and a thermos of hot tea...yum. Then Gillo came home, and gave me lots of presents!!! Yesterday, the burfday, was fun too - sleep in, coffee at the foodstore, swung by CYCLINGO to sort my brakes out, had a chat with John, learned some pro tricks for brake tuning, sauntered home, put a new riser bar on my bike, then went for a climb with Gill at the indoor wall, followed by pub and Scrabble. The only spoiler was that Gill was on call, so got dragged in to work mid game, which was a bit crap.

 A not particularly good film, but a spectacular route - check out our local legennd, "the tote" by clicking on THIS LINK