So, this week I turned 40, eek! My husband and I spent a few days away near Lincoln. I loved Lincoln and would happily go back there again. Such a great town, with small independent shops, a great castle and an amazing Cathedral.

I've got a passion at the moment about the smaller details you see when you visit a historic site. Here's some of the inside of Lincoln Cathedral.  I also took lots when we visited the Houses of Parliament recently. Again I recommend this as a place to visit if you are ever nearby.

I'm slowly making my way through my Illustrator course online, Bonnie Christie on Creative Live is a real great teacher.  She uses a Wacom tablet to create and as luck would have that was what I got from my husband for my 40th! Well that at a 3kg bag of my favourite sweets Rhubarb and Custard mmmmmm.  For those of you who don't know a Wacom tablet allows you to draw on the tablet and the image appears on the screen. So if you have a great drawing you can trace over it on the tablet and manipulate it in the software package of your choice. I'm sure it does loads more but I don't know what yet!

Now just a small bug bear of mine - its the 1st September today and I honestly don't know when I start my course, is it the 19th or the 26th? I've phoned the Uni twice to ask and no one can give me a straight answer. I've enrolled online and I'm starting to get emails from the Uni regarding the library, but no concrete, show me on paper, dates and times.

I know I should go with the flow a bit but I need to get my life in order. Will I need to buy a monthly or annual train ticket or is it cheaper if I travel off-peak and pay as I go, what days am I in, where do I go, where's the nearest Starbucks (don't shoot me, we get free coffees there because of my husband's works health care Vitality package).

I don't think I'm being unreasonable, do you?


Also at Lincoln Castle was a wave of poppies, a section of what was at the Tower of London recently. You couldn't get very close to them but they were impressive none the less.


So I'm going to sign off now, hopefully the next time I write I'll have a better idea of what's going on.

Wait a minute, my dog Benji has just joined me, I think he wants to get on my blog, so here's a picture of him.

Kind Regards

Karren







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