Well my weekend office arrived and I spent a couple of hours in a digger trying to flatten the track out. I will need another run at it tomorrow as I did miss some bits, well technically I didn’t miss them as I wanted everything to settle before having another go tomorrow.

Whilst hunting for my work gloves I came upon a box of Maltesers that one of the children gave me as a leaving present. They didn’t rattle much when I picked them up… I now have chocolate modern art…

I did manage a smidge of painting on the druid Loreil… I really, really couldn’t be bothered, but I forced myself to do one small bit.

I went for a pale green for her top, well I thought it befitted a druid. A couple of things are going through my head as I look at this… autumn or summer for the leaves and the original art has the butterfly as some kind of a glowing ethereal creature… not sure if I am up to object source lighting yet, especially not at this scale… something to ponder down the road.

So 7th July was my birthday and I have been on this planet 58 years and 6 days. I got some very cool presents from everyone including a  DNA test thing… I am hoping for Hungarian or somewhere like that. Bound to have Scandinavian in there as most of the North of the UK do. I also got a lovely piece of Trench Art from 1916.

Some shell casing for the blade, bullet for the handle with a tunic  button on the side for decoration. It also has a smaller button as a finial.  Very cool.

I wonder what happened to the maker, did he make it home? Is this his legacy, bought for a stranger in an antique shop?

Hopefully it really meant something to someone and was their pride and joy. For me, I love it.