Queen's 90th Birthday Celebration at Swindon's Queen's Park

Hello,

Our local park is having a birthday party to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. There will be loads of activities for the whole family to enjoy which include-

Music

Dancing

Stalls and exhibits

Sports activities

Raffle prizes

King and Queen fancy dress

and of course birthday cake.

I will also have a stall selling my artwork. So if you are in the neighbourhood, do stop by. Hopefully the weather will hold out. We've had really beautiful summer weather for the past three days so hopefully it will stay for a bit longer.

Queen's Park
165 Drove Road, Swindon, SN1 3AG
Sunday, 12th June 

12-5pm

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On Our Walk Through The Park...

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Its been warm and sunny for the last few days so I thought I would take our dog Jack for a nice long walk in our local park. Here are some photos taken using my mobile phone- I couldn't find our camera. I then decided to edit them in Instagram.

Happy dog.

Very tired dog.

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First Snow Day in 2013!

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We had our first snow fall this year! It caused a lot of havoc yesterday in and around Swindon and other parts of England and Wales. They estimated we got around 4-6 inches of snow, not much but enough to close many schools, delay buses and trains. My son's school was one of the few schools  which were opened in the morning. To my son's horror- he wanted a snow day. But because it snowed throughout the morning, the head teacher thought it would be best to close at midday. It continued to snow all day and most of the night. I took some photos of our winter wonderland.

 This was my son when I turned up at his school with his sled. Was he happy or what?

Below are photos of our local park.

 My son pulling his sled.

He and a school friend are pulled along by his friend's dad. He had a blast.

Outside my studio at the back of our house.

Jack our dog, enjoying himself in our back garden. 

He's had enough-so he's coming inside.

 If you would like to see more photos of "Snowy Swindon", click on this link.

They say we will get more snow over the next couple of days. We just have to wait and see.

Bye for now.

Rose Garden

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These are a series of photos taken of pink roses I spotted in Queen's Park today. unfortunately its been raining again and were expected more to come this afternoon, just in time for the school run.

Untitled MMC1, mixed media collage.

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Rainy Day Photos and a Sketch

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These are some photos I took this morning at our local park. I sometimes walk through the park after dropping my son at school. The flowers looked really nice and I managed to pick up some interesting leaves. I thought I might use them for leaf printing at a later date. Here is a sketch I did of one of the brown leaves.

3. Brown Leaf, coffee, graphite pencil and crayon on paper.

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A walk in the park on a cold Sunday morning...

Here are some photos taken on my walk home this morning through my local park. It was a bitterly cold and cloudy morning. I wanted to take more photos but I forgot to bring both my hat and gloves.

I plan to use them as reference for future artwork. I hope you enjoy them.

Bye for now.