Now you see me, now you kind of don't...

Every now and then, when everything is getting too shouty, I do hide behind the curtains in the front room in the hope of Five Seconds Peace (when you're an adult, people rarely look for you behind curtains) but now I've seen Liu Bo Lin's artwork I think I may have been getting it wrong.  What I NEED to do, actually, on occasions of necessary crypsis, is to carefully paint myself into a crafty camoflauge with my surroundings.

To be honest, from looking round me at the moment, all I'd have to do is cover myself in sketches of discarded toys, socks and dog hair, and I'd pretty much be there.

But anyway, Liu Bo Lin's utterly mind-boggling artwork had me sitting in open-mouthed wonder for a good few minutes today and surely that IS worth a post?!!

Liu Bo Lin: Beijing camouflage artist

Do do doooo check him out on google images - it's superbly diverting!

Brazil. Nuts?

The more I hear about Brazil, the more I want to go there; that is the purely the fault of C with her amazing stories and pots of guava paste for my cheese, and P and his superbly delectable feijoada.  Quite annoying.  A year ago I could think "Brazil" and move on, but now I think "Brazil, when oh when will I EVER get there in this life of Children and Dogs and One Salary?" and start feeling disconsolate and itchy-feetish.  I really, really want to go.


Well, this has kept me going this evening.  I don't speak Portuguese but, with some clinging to Latinate familiarity, it seems to uneducated me that the point of it might be to encourage one to, er, save water?

Come on, Brazilians.  Enlighten me, please...




Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
I'm sure I shouldn't, in these times of global shortage, but I can't help a big EEK. Us English, hey. We are so VERY prissy.


(Oh, I know, I know.  Speak for yourself.  Etc...)