Bull's eyes

Finally, on display in my office at the agricultural department
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Mounted the "eyes" (from a gas cooker) and the nose ring.
The eye rings make it look less skull-like, the nose ring fits in with the lines altogether.
Surplus mounting adhesive has to be cleared.

Time for outdoor carving

And also time for a pint.

Tore my hand last week on this carving, actually. Stitching, lockjaw vaccination and all that. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.


That's better...

Non, j'ai des lunettes

Van Masque du jour

El-Rukh with plumage in the making

Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart's heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier,
Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire
In the dark time of the year.

TS Eliot - Little Gidding

He's here again

Monster with three ears.

Adding a circle and the right background makes a world of difference.

Eye

These are holes that were its eyes