Finally have the spoons to watch the @itv #BritainsStrictestHeadmistress which I realised I also pass on the tube when I use the met line. Hearing more, I’m glad I usually use the Bakerloo and overground to avoid paying for zone 1 and walking Waterloo concourse with my stiff back Loading her up…

Nice shot of the arch over the town. Poor borough, doesn’t mean we need strictness as such. Teacher haranguing her form for behaviour, it’s embarrassing to the whole form, standard stuff tbh. Don’t punish them all, but take pride in representing your form 🤔

I was feeling smug that I might finally have sent the #UniversalCredit wanks off to think on my feedback but then I noticed it was 5pm and they’ve probably just logged off instead. Mandatory reconsideration made no difference though at least they decided quickly this time. So now I get to wait 6 months for an appeal to go to tribunal. I’ve got the local disabled support group and maybe citizen’s advice to help, but probably don’t need to double up. Still, the ‘fairyland says unicorns exist so jobhunt through your suicidal anxiety’ part, um, no.

Have a hope that when the hormones calm down perhaps next week, I might still feel interest again to try digital art. Also again cos I’ve been trying for 10 years and it doesn’t entirely suit me, I don’t draw as well onscreen and take ages to find the right shape of brush. With watercolour or anything else on paper, I can make the soft, harsh, light or strong mark as intended with far more ease. I have a variety of paint brushes and they’re all obvious in their use and easy to grab from the pot they live in.

CW - mention of pet death

You know what, I’m feeling that sappy, have some photos of my darling departed best cat Onyx who had a good year, but only that.

My love, my best tabby boy, my wildest food thief, my foam-ripper, my white-pawed softest-furred cuddly friend. I miss him. And his brothers Sapphire and Jasper have just flopped down to kick each other in the head. Live your lives to the fullest, boys 😏

Yes, I went all out on the gemstone names. Sapphires can be black as well as blue, you see, and onyx is also when a gem is cut to show layers.

Sorting through my pile artwork, damn it’s bigger than I realised. Loads I’ve done on only one side of the paper, can re-use those. A lot I like enough to put on the wall. One I hadn’t seen for so long, I’d used it as an avatar everywhere and the original faded, but good colours. The cat interference, though. Started off with Lola on the bed, I was on the floor. Then she’s on top of papers and Sapphy comes along, also on some paper. Can’t pull thin sheets of marker paper out from under them so move them. Lola sits on another thing looking grumpy.