Day twenty-seven of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
Yesterday was a good day:
I cleared some of my remaining working hours before going to bed.
I got paid.
I slept the sleep of the just.
I woke to the news that over-40s are next in line for the Coronavirus vaccine here in the UK. (For once, I'm thankful for being "older").
I nattered with Simon on the phone.
I tended our indoor plants.
I photographed plants in our front garden coming through with the warmer spring weather now that a lot of the weeds are suppressed.
I popped out to do essential shopping and caught some sunlight for my vitamin D fix.
I completed my working hours for the week.
I consumed some cheeky ciders (the first in days and about half were low-alcohol).
I completed my daily sketch.
Though I had this sketch finished by about 23:44 yesterday, editing the source photo and importing and editing my sketch took me into today. And then I got distracted by annoying political stuff counterbalanced by a more positive random chat with Simon about plants and insects.
I've learned even more new things (for me) today, and that's always a good thing!
So anyway, this little fella isn't a spider. So all you arachnophobes can just chill, okay?
He's a harvestman from the Opiliones order.
Simon and I befriended him in Theydon Plain, Epping, Essex, not far from Epping Forest on one of our first proper outings as restrictions eased toward the end of London's first lockdown.
I hope we didn't get him pissed...
That day was the first time in a long time that things felt "normal" because I'd shopped the day before for our picnic fare. Apart from having to throw our rubbish in an over-full bin on the way home, I'd not had to furiously sanitise my hands all day or keep my hands away from my face even.
It was late May last year, and it feels so long ago but simultaneously not that long ago.
So, anyway, yesterday, I knew I had a short window to complete my sketch after wrapping up some work for the day. Though it took me a while to decide what to draw, I eventually settled on this fellow.
He's drawn with a 4H pencil, and he's not necessarily proportionally perfect compared to the original photograph, but he's not bad. He does look a little more like a beetle than an arachnid, in my opinion, though. (Pros and cons for you arachnophobes).
I thought my name and sketch duration wording were a bit light, so they are more of a mess from me doing a terrible overwriting job!
I'm hoping I'll do my sketches during daylight hours over the weekend and that I'll be able to bring them to you earlier in the day.