I have been writing, lots of ideas and thoughts jotted down in books, but as I have also been proof reading our daughter, Lindsay's final dissertation and essays for her English Lit degree, I haven't really wanted to do much of my own.
However, a few other things I have been amusing myself with are a French conversation class, where I spend 2 hours every Friday morning trying to speak French and remember the difference between J'ai and Je suis! It is great fun and I hope that I can manage to converse if only even a small amount when we are on holiday in France this October.
The other grand project for me has been to start an Art for Amateurs course at Nescol college. I spend one afternoon a week trying to draw, learn perspective and experiment with different medias, it is just the best fun! This week we are trying wet on wet (no idea!) but it should be landscapes, so I am going to use the photo below and try to paint it.
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| Findhorn Beach |
The other exciting thing is that we are finally restoring our Railway wagon. As mentioned in GardenCuppa years ago this has been on the project list for years. I will blog about it on there as we progress!
Life is changing, with new things ahead and I want to think of this next stage of my life not being the end of raising our children but as them beginning their next stage in life and that, I think, is the same for me too.
Ali
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