#drawing 4907 looking down the Billing Road #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4906 The Old House, Wellingborough Road #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4905 tulips in the park #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#drawing 4904 looking down the Billing Road #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4903 blossom at Moulton Industrial Estate #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

It’s such a great landmark! I’ve often sketched and painted it from different places.

#drawing 4902 topping up my lift tower silhouette cards #collage #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#drawing 4901 from near Birmingham Town Hall #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#drawing 4900 near the lake, Delapre Abbey
#adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

Seven #urbansketchers at Delapre Abbey on a windy morning! #usknorthampton

#drawing 4899 the former Memorial Hall, Castilian St #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4898 prototype for art club #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #collage

Good morning Northamptonshire.

A sunny start to Monday before clouds develop to give sunny spells and some scattered showers. A gentle breeze. 14°C.

Sunshine to start Tuesday before it turns mostly cloudy with a few afternoon showers. 14°C.

#drawing 4897 trees, Abington Park, while listening to Milton Keynes Brass Band #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4896 deep sky tour #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #collage

#drawing 4895 looking towards The Pavilion Cafe in Becket’s Park #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4894 looking towards Christchurch Road #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

Good morning Northamptonshire.

A bright start today before it soon turns cloudier with a few showers mid/late afternoon. Turning breezy through the day. 17°C.

Mostly dry with some sunny spells tomorrow. 13°C.

#drawing 4893 tulips #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

#drawing 4892 The Plough Hotel, Northampton #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

A map of the UK showing maximum temperatures on Wednesday 8th April 2026. These are expected to be widely above average, particularly across England and Wales, with highs of widely 20-24 degrees Celsius and 26 degrees Celsius in the London area. Northwestern areas will be cooler with highs in Shetland and the northwest of Scotland of only 10 or 11 degrees Celsius respectively and 17 degrees Celsius in Northern Ireland.

A map of the UK showing how maximum temperatures will compare on Thursday to on Wednesday. Many places will see a drop in temperature of 5 to 10 degrees Celsius, but parts of eastern and southeastern England will be similar or slightly warmer than on Wednesday.

Wednesday will be very warm for early April, with potentially record breaking temperatures for this time of year 🌡️

For some, it may be the warmest spell this early in April since 2020.

But it will be brief. Temperatures will drop by up to 10 degrees Celsius by Thursday 📉

#drawing 4891 tree shadow on tree trunk #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Thanks so much, Tom🙂

#drawing 4890 looking from the bottom of Rushmere Road on a windy afternoon! #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

Easter Eggs in the Bible BREAD EGG: The first ever Easter egg was hand made from bread by Jesus at the Last Supper. Came with a free Holy Grail and two bits of bread. [Image shows a very rough basic egg made of bread in a box clearly made by a carpenter.] FIRST SMARTIES EGG: St Matthew’s Gospel describes candy-covered rabbit droppings that came “actually inside the egg”, not in a separate packet like nowadays. GOD’S POSH EGG One for the aunties: the first ‘high-end’ Artisan egg made by God himself. Dark chocolate, posh box, infinite cocoa content. [Image shows a posh egg on a cloud in heaven] ROMAN YORKIE EGG: The first Yorkie egg came in a chariot-shaped box marketed at ‘Manly Romans’. Latin wordsearch on the back. [Image shows an elaborate cardboard chariot box containing the egg] EARLY SNICKERS: Snickers used to be called Marathon and before that it was called UNG-ERWEH which meant ‘Fourteen Lashes Unto The Shepherd’. We can see why they changed it! CREME EGGS: According to the Gospel of St Matthew, Cadbury’s Creme Eggs were “absolutely massive” and had “proper chocolate” in 2000 BKE (Before Kraft Era). Scriptures describe a ‘mystery filling’ that gave mild chemical burns. [Show a giant Creme Egg in someone’s hands] SATAN’S EGG: Never one to be outdone, the Lord of Darkness sought to compete with God on the ‘sophisticated’ market. High quality dark egg cursed by Satan himself, with two free bars of ‘loathesome matter’. Withdrawn from sale. [Show an evil looking red egg in a box with ‘666’ on it, two bars of what looks like bloody flesh, blood dripping out of the front.] [Ends]

Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 [Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM [Ends]

Happy Ēostre!

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#drawing 4889 above the zipyard, St Giles St #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4888 view to the end of the road #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

#drawing 4887 looking towards Abington Park Crescent #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch #usknorthampton

Good evening Northants.

A band of rain moves south overnight. 4°C.

Dry in the county tomorrow with cloud & a few brighter spells. A northwesterly breeze. 12°C.

Mostly cloudy and breezy on Good Friday with showers. 15°C.