paintings 4 October 2009
I did very well out of my brother’s trip from Galway yesterday in the borrowed van (before we headed to Kilkenny on our road trip) – basically, the Mammy has given me a whole load of her paintings and ones I have loved since I was growing up in the old family home. They’re portraits she did of me and the 2 lads centuries ago and one of my Dad asleep that is SO him that I have to smile every time I see it. I feel really lucky and am so looking forward to some time actually properly seeing them at a stretch. Who knows when that will be as things are fluid on the tv show – you gotta be available for change, so I never quite know when I’ll be home. In the meantime I have taken the back wall of the garden falling down (well, it’s mostly fallen over) as a sign that I should start again out there, so it’s all change. The garden was used as he builders’ dumping ground for a year and a half and I ignored it (much as I love getting stuck in out there). With the cat gone, I don’t feel any loyalty to the ‘lawn’ which is largely weeds anyhow so I have ‘commissioned’ a new arrangement with big beds all around with some fruit trees in and space to grow a little veg and herbs but also some pretty and smelly plants, and a basic, largely hard, middle surface. Am excited by it all.
Oh, and the builders seem to have finished and gone…though no final bill yet! How do they get by? If i waited that long to be paid I’d be bankrupt…
