WE HAVE MOVED!!!!

Now you won't get this very often, so embrace it, and even frame it if need be;

I MUST APOLOGISE TO MY FAN BASE.

I have close friends staying with me at the moment and they pointed out that I hadn't written anything on my blog for ages...I didn't click to it, but it is obvious they were still using the old address via this outlet, Blogger when in fact I had moved everything across to Wordpress.

https://keitheleftheriou.wordpress.com

So please for those of you not coping with life, those who have finally seen every porn site possible, for those who accept that I know everything and am right, please follow me my dear minions, feel the force, and be prepared to be mildly amazed...

Until we meet again...we will always have Paris xxx

Friday Drinks...Sol

The Sol in Mardi Gras guise...

This is by no means a drink I have often, if at all, but I happened to have a few sitting in the fridge as the result of party leftovers, and today I felt like having one. Previous experiences with it have been in Ponsonby bars, or drinking with "noters", and always with a slice of lemon or lime shoved down the neck...now I know why. As a real bloke, I don't normally carry spare citrus in my house so had a couple of these without the additive and while they taste OK, they hardly send the DT's running for the hills, or the taste buds racing. Watery would be the worst thing I could say and while I don't consider myself to have one of the finer palettes about, I figure that most who drink this just want to be noticed and considered classy...all I say to you is harden up and drink a real beer! And only women, stereotyped mincers, and middle-aged men on singles cruises have any sort of fruit in their alcoholic beverage. And at that price? Just like Lexus...cool name, big tag, but ultimately disappointing.

Nah, not for me, unless there was nothing else in the fridge.

Book Review...Beatrix Potter - Artist & Illustrator

By Anne Stevenson Hobbs

As I have been sick the last four or five days, I have had some time to read, and this one caught my eye in the library not because I am a fan of her writing, but because I had watched a Sunday Theatre film about the life of her (Miss Potter, starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor) and it was fascinating.

And to the book, well I read it in a day. Not that it had much written words as such as it is a book show piecing a lot of her work, but the footnotes to each picture make for some interesting stories and facts. The show stealer however is the art, and what an artist she was!

From her Tales of... series with Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddleduck, and all their friends, there were also other prints, sketches and paintings of houses, landscapes, and people.

She was also commissioned to do detailed lithographs for museums, universities and libraries on selected flora and fauna as well as art for other famous writers of her time. Add to this her Greeting card art she dabbled in, plus the countryside she owned (she bought up just about every farm in her favourite region and bred champion sheep), she was undoubtedly a larger than life woman.

For anyone interested in art or Beatrix Potter (it does touch on the biographical here and there) this is a great little read...and the kids will love it too. It has gotten me interested in reading her books I must admit.