More Pretty Pictures!!

We spent five and a half hours editing one paper today.  And we only managed to get a third of it done. 

And the rest of the day was spent nit-picking the illustration work.  And in particular, adding lots of tiny triangular shapes to a drawing in Adobe Illustrator to represent the hachures in various pits and postholes. 

Aargh!!!!

It was followed by horse-riding, and Episode 2 of The Canter Masterclass.  In which I discovered (with some assistance from Molly) that I can manage a walk-canter transition a lot easier than I can manage a trot-canter transition, which came as a bit of a surprise.  Of course, the transformation in us both may have something to do with the fact that - for once- I gave Molly a tap because she really wasn't listening and suddenly she was all ears.  From that point on, she was the old Molly - lively, interested and a pleasure to work with.  I think she enjoyed it more when she'd woken up a bit, too.

Today, I will post some random pretty pictures from Herculaneum.  They're of nothing in particular - they're just a few fragments of the various wall-paintings that survive across the site:-

 

I like the fragment of coffering which is featured below:-

 

And lastly, a rather lovely figurative panel:-

 

We just got a leaflet through from Shropshire Council called 'On the Trail of King Arthur's Shropshire'.  I never knew that Much Wenlock and Ironbridge were right next to each other.  Or that the Steiper Stones are so close to Shrewsbury - I remember seeing them featured on a very old geography/geology programme called 'Landshapes' that was aired many years ago.

I guess they're going to have to be added to the 'Must See' list, but somehow I think we're going to have to be planning a return journey some time in the future...

More Pretty Pictures!!

We spent five and a half hours editing one paper today.  And we only managed to get a third of it done. 

And the rest of the day was spent nit-picking the illustration work.  And in particular, adding lots of tiny triangular shapes to a drawing in Adobe Illustrator to represent the hachures in various pits and postholes. 

Aargh!!!!

It was followed by horse-riding, and Episode 2 of The Canter Masterclass.  In which I discovered (with some assistance from Molly) that I can manage a walk-canter transition a lot easier than I can manage a trot-canter transition, which came as a bit of a surprise.  Of course, the transformation in us both may have something to do with the fact that - for once- I gave Molly a tap because she really wasn't listening and suddenly she was all ears.  From that point on, she was the old Molly - lively, interested and a pleasure to work with.  I think she enjoyed it more when she'd woken up a bit, too.

Today, I will post some random pretty pictures from Herculaneum.  They're of nothing in particular - they're just a few fragments of the various wall-paintings that survive across the site:-

 

I like the fragment of coffering which is featured below:-

 

And lastly, a rather lovely figurative panel:-

 

We just got a leaflet through from Shropshire Council called 'On the Trail of King Arthur's Shropshire'.  I never knew that Much Wenlock and Ironbridge were right next to each other.  Or that the Steiper Stones are so close to Shrewsbury - I remember seeing them featured on a very old geography/geology programme called 'Landshapes' that was aired many years ago.

I guess they're going to have to be added to the 'Must See' list, but somehow I think we're going to have to be planning a return journey some time in the future...