Dearie me

For a few minutes I thought I'd deleted this blog by mistake.  I was trying to link two together, and I assumed the first stage was to delete an account.  I can see my mad medieval studies teacher now, her eyes bulging, shouting at me, 'NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING!'

It's taught me to make a copy of everything. It's also made me realise how much I've written, and how awful it would be to lose it.

After a lot of searching, I found this wonderful step by step guide:
http://tinyurl.com/mergeaccounts

I also discovered that I can, if I want to, use the address of the account I deleted, if I undelete the account and merge it.  However, I like the new address better!

Anyway, I've managed to create a sister blog to this one, to showcase my paintings and share my 'process', as they say.  I find art can be a very insular kind of thing, which is perhaps why I haven't done so much of it lately.  Being an allotmenteer is much more sociable.  So it will be healthy I think to write a blog about my painting. 

www.atelierclaire.blogspot.com
Actually I'm hoping that in the end the two activities will come together, as I'm going to recreate my main allotment next year as a kind of natural resource for artistic inspiration.   I'm hoping that in this way I will bring my painting out into the community, so that I'm not shut off in a little studio, or in the seclusion of my parent's garden, but in a place where people will see what I am making as I am making it.  This might be a little difficult in the winter of course.