From personal experience (certainly 80s into the 90s, maybe before then too as it was particularly from the mouths - mindsets/ unsolicited opinions - of older male officers) the moniker ‘PLONK’ was the term for female officers, hefty or not.
PLONK meaning Person Of Little Or No Knowledge.
Posts by Gillian Matthews
Balm for Friday evening reposted from @alecfinlay.bsky.social
Am flichterin’ them over my shoulders as a talismanic cape to salve the aftermath of a neurology appointment.
Onwards. Tomorrow.
Putting the div in individual - who started an owlet drawing in need of portrait format space with the sketchbook sitting landscape because the spiral binding was irksome then filed it in the ‘Argh, cheesed off, file it out of sight and find it years later’ pile …
#talesfromthefilemarkedartbloopers
Seed heads.
Botanical lines.
Fineliner sketching. Focused observation, lost in the flow. Bliss.
Stanes, stacked.
West coast of Scotland.
White pen on Clairefontaine paper.
Whin.
White pen on blue Clairefontaine paper.
Moorland.
Texture medium and watercolour. Palette knife, quick brush marks, wet on wet en plein air in drizzle.
Wooden print block G.
Charcoal on paper.
North shore.
Continuous line drawing.
Field boundaries.
Ink and watercolour.
Hostas.
Watercolour, gouache and ink.
Teasels.
Charcoal and white pastel on paper.
Preparatory drawing.
Spoots. Thriving in West Coast of Scotland coastal trust zone.
Reference sketches, charcoal-making class in woodland.
Aengus doesn’t wander alone.
Charcoal on Hahnemühle watercolour paper.