Well thanks to the British education system my wife is suffering from a bad cold. My son came home the other day with a heavy cold no doubt contracted at his university. Being young he spent a couple of days feeling sorry for himself and then bounced back. However, for the people who live in the same house with him it is taking longer and having a effect. Now I have had a flu jab and this might have protected me from the worst effects. However, my wife is suffering.
Now here is one of those Mars and Venus questions. Why are women so crap at illness? We men are the true professionals. When we have a cold we devote all our attention to it - none of this carrying regardless - we are ill so that is the only thing that matters - front and centre. We demand to be cared for and nursed back from death's door. Women on the other hand have this totally baffling attitude that they must carry on. They come up with arguments that they have got too many things to do to stop. These are just incomprehensible to the professional male - when you are ill you are ill - period.
So I have managed, just, to get my wife to sit down and just do nothing. Almost impossible but some how I did manage it - perhaps she really is ill? Anyway, I have had to run around and do things but mainly I have spent time doodling whilst making sure she rests - yes she require constant obs otherwise she would be about 'doing things' . The doodles can be spilt into two. The first group are based on characters and photographs I have found on the internet. With these I have been experimenting with the restrictions that pen and ink place on the doodles. You have to be precise with the mark you make and any mistake is very difficult to correct. With this in mind I made the Buzz Light Year and Woody sketches (I'm sure the Disney Corp won't mind but I guess I will find out shortly if they do). Another interesting thing with these sketches is that the slightest mistake and you change the whole character of the person - manic Buzz is a case in point.
The second group are based on people I have seen on TV whilst sitting with my wife. I find myself people watching and missing whole sections of plot and find I have to pause the programme and then go back and watch it again. However, this is a wonderful source of interesting people to draw or at least sketches and doodles on.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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