Create Comics workshop

Went to this at the cornerhouse on saturday. It's run by Jim Medway, who draws people with cat's heads. We learned to get our ideas on paper quickly, never mind how crap they were. Two comics resulted, and as they were built from 14 different ideas they're very strange. Good day, though.

Screen Printing

Did some screen printing with Kiren on tuesday and thursday. We were tasked with decorating a 5-metre long tablecloth for the UCAS fair next week. It took a lot longer than I expected - lining up the hexagons relative to each other took a whole afternoon. I can see why people like it so much though. There's an almost sensual pleasure in driving the pigment through the screen. And a massive sense of satisfaction in looking at the finished article and thinking, 'I did that'.

People's Museum visit

The story of the people's battle towards equality and justice, right up until 1979 and the dawn of Thatcherism, when things started to get worse again. It'll be interesting to see what's in here in another fifty years time.

Creepy alien plants

I saw this weird shrub at Tatton park. Foolishly I put one of the purple seedpods in my pocket. Where it burst.

Empty River

Forgot to mention the river at Liverpool. There's a huge waterway, linned with docks and wharves, and it's all but empty of shipping. I saw two tankers go plodding downstream. That's all. Then I visited the Museum of Liverpool and saw what it was like until fairly recently, alive with ships and buzzing with activity. Youu can imagine the sense of loss scousers above a certain age must get when they see it and remmember how it used to be.

Tate Liverpool at last

Finally got here. And thanks to reading Will Gompertz's 'What are you looking at - 150 years of modern art' - A brilliant book - I even knew about some of the exhibits.

Never really looked at the three graces close up before. Very large and beautiful - thank god they never built that pig - ugly cloud building next to them.

The desert? No, Cheshire.

This is the Archimedes screw generator on the river goyt at otterspool weir. Nice touch, painting them green.