In a nutshell. 😊

Painting by Lee Madgwick of a floating tower block crumbling from the bottom in a flat landscape and stormy sky.

Painting by Lee Madgwick. An old remnant of a seaside resort under a moody sky. Three attached premises face the unseen sea from the promenade. Two deckchairs are positioned on the beach.

A painting by Lee Madgwick of a lone abandoned, partially boarded up ruin under storm clouds.

A painting by Lee Madgwick. A brutalist building with an exterior staircase. Birds fly by. ‘Hope’ is scrawled in graffiti at the top.

Hi #portfolioday I’m Lee, I’m a painter from England. I have a penchant for abandoned and derelict buildings - an unhealthy obsession that finds its way into my strange and unsettling universe.

I'll have a crack at 29 :-)

Let's play "Guess How Many Books I Sell Today".

I'm working until about 10pm, so there's plenty of time!

Nearest guess wins the book of their choice, up to about a tenner.

Reply with your guess before 3.15pm (and please repost).

GOOD LUCK!

#ghmbist

In the UK, and I think I learned "overalls" before I did "dungarees"

But in my head, overalls are work wear, whereas dungarees are leisure

I have no idea if that is accurate :-)

"Comedian Says Our Paper Is Reassuring" - Daily Mail

Sleeping cat (Boo) but you can really only see a nose, plus limbs poking off in different directions

Boo is up there somewhere ...

Absolutely ... and maybe that's what hit their confidence when suddenly the stones weren't doing exactly what they planned for the first time in the tournament (?)

So sad to see how well the GB pair did during the group stage only to struggle in the two games that mattered :(

Hmm ....

Colourful "Green Day" pyjamas ?

or

Colourful, green day-pyjamas ?

:-)

When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty - XTC

Aha... maybe Gruda cover 🤞

Definitely. But suddenly Baleba's form has returned, Utd look a little less of a shitshow, and I think we're expecting an unrefuseable bid in the summer anyway ...

Hopefully not, but I can see it happening

Expecting a late Baleba bid ?

It's late

Thanks ... I assumed there would be because of how many each team would lose

In the UK there aren't normally clashes in most sports ... except cricket and international (test) matches ... in which case the teams just have to carry on without their best players

Asking from the UK ... Is there a big mid-season break for the Olympics, or does the schedule carry on without those selected?

I couldn't if I tried

i know! I mentioned it to Charlotte and she said "yeah, that was your idea"

This was about 3am Sunday night, so I remember nothing .. but very possible :-)

Back in the day when they could print the rules in the box-lid, instead of a 40-page rule book :)

How is everything? all good? I think we're coming along to see you at Katie Fitzgeralds in the spring ...

Roll a die and move ... but was it a circular track? Might have had that one as a kid ...

I'm gonna take a massive punt and say Leicestershire

Also, I read somewhere else ... When you get a Nobel prize, you are give a gold medal which you keep somewhere very safe, and also a crappy plated one which you put in a frame for public display ...

I wonder which one he was given

Amazingly, she wasn't the first choice. Apparently, Alan Cumming was (he'd already done the US one) but he wasn't available

I thought the same re: the boxes ... but I do think they added the creaky hinges afterwards :-)

If you're near to London, get yourself along!

Or East Hagbourne for that matter, wherever the heck that is 😀

no need to apologise! Love reading these, so happy to guess :-)

Is a chilly bin what we in the UK might call a cooler box?

As Brighton fans living in Stoke on Trent, we sometimes have to drive a couple of hours South so that we can sing "you dirty Northern bastards" at the opposition :-)

Awry definitely ... and albeit (al-bite)

Your book arrived today, ready to be wrapped for my daughter for xmas

I hope she'll enjoy it as much as I enjoy your posts

N.