Magazines

Hello again. Well I got all excited because the editor of a writing magazine liked an idea and offered me £120 for the idea, and I was to look after the monthly column. Quite how it went from this to not being interested in the idea or the column I just don't know. Anyway birdwatching mag is looking to take a piece from me on the supernatural beliefs about the kingfisher. Christmas is, as always sneaking up on me and my dad is impossible to by for usually. He likes the Shadows (band) and I won a horrendously close battle on ebay to buy him a signed, first edition copy of their book. I literally went for my final bid within the last second. This year he wants propellers, and bits for his model aeroplane. But he's mad about cats so I'm going to get a mug with the picture below printed on it: You can also put a short 4 line message on it. I have some basic ideas, but if someone could come up with something witty and send it in, I'd be grateful.

The painting above is quite a famous production by Ralph Hedley, the less prolific painter than his maritime obsessed (but superb) painter.

Some of his paintings are more dramatic than this, but there's something comforting about this - the woman waiting for the return from a beautifully coloured and level sea.