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Garden pictures - its Blooming marvelous

Its been a very mixed week this week.  Motivation has shifted up and down like a yo yo... but I have finally completed my Professional Practice module and I'm reasonably pleased with it.  what I'm most pleased about is my amazing understanding of Adobe InDesign ha ha - I have watched and re-watched and gone through step by step endless you tube tutorials which I think I have to thank this lock down situation for - I would never have had the patience otherwise - and I have MASTERED this bloomin computer programme!!!!! Well mastered is probably an exaggeration but I am a long way into it and have even managed to add automatic figures and contents lists...

I've tinted the pages... worked out paragraph styles... got an over riding master page - its looking like the bees knees - and I'm handing it in later today so I don't mess it up trying to be too clever!!!

Final Major Project to be finished next - I have all the content, my final scarves and now waiting for the right day to do the photographing of the sketch book and start pulling it together in yet another InDesign document!!!!

To be honest its a onerous task - but I've got this far with this degree I feel I must push to hand it in as good as I can manage... even through a digital hand in is my worst nightmare.  I am feeling quite overwhelmed with technology overload at the moment...5 solid days of  InDesign - Photoshopping sketch book pages, Teams seminar - took me 10 minutes to find the meeting - no idea how I did it  and I'm expected to do it again next week 😂😂😂 so I'm taking the rest of the day off to enjoy trivial pursuits like counting the daisies the garden...  and maybe a little back to basic sketching - something I seem to have had little time for recently.


The better parts of the week have been in-between slaving over a hot you tube tutorial. I just reread that as a hot tub tutorial - I wish... In the garden - talking to my plants who are responding wonderfully - there is a ghost in the green house that turns the wind up radio on when we are not around - spooky but the plants like it.  Our new lawn mower arrived and I have had the pleasure of watching Dr Fred mow the lawn - around the daisies - the tadpoles are emerging and we have a water lily!! It is so lovely watching this new (to us) garden emerge as the plants start to blossom and the colours are starting to come out in earnest.  we have loots of beautiful acre trees and the clematis is going to be stunning in a couple of weeks.  we have removed about 30 of the 90 leylandi trees and the garden looks a little less crowded now.  the lilac had burst into glory and the copper beech is just starting to unfurl its leaves against the riotous clematis clambering over the pergola thingy...



Of course one of the issues of the nice weather is it makes Dr Fred very sad not to be on the hills chasing Munroes and finding esoteric crags, he is finding lock down constraints very difficult - I think when this is over I wont see him for months.   I miss my girls too - messaging isn't the same and they are going a wee bit stir crazy stuck in a small house with only each other to scream at.   Still we are well and lucky to be safe and comfortable - this will end eventually and life will return to 'normal' what ever that turns out to be.   in the mean time how lucky are we to have this fabulous garden to enjoy.




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