I need to run a virus check on my computer. It did one yesterday but a quick one and I think it's missing something. Firefox went wrong on DA so I switched over to Safari and now I am getting trouble connecting to the site! I need to use Opera a bit more.

I've been quite off and ill for the last few weeks. Now I am going down with a cough. I've got a really bad creativity block and I'm not getting anywhere with my assignments. They said I should just hand it in as it is, but there is nothing to hand in! Half a sketchbook, an unfinished ugly looking mask and an eighth of an uncompleted parasol. If I can overcome this recent bout of illness and my off colour personality I've had lately, I can just slip back into being creative and get somewhere.

I'll get there! Creativity is just around the corner; I know it. I don't know if anyone else finds this, but sometimes after I've been down and ill and lost touch with my art I suddenly "see" the world. I get ideas just from looking outside. Like tonight we were driving into town and it had been raining all day, then suddenly the sun came out and everything was bathed in a golden yellow. This is what inspires me and what helps me "tap" into the creativity I lost. It might take a while to get it back fully but it's coming. I've been dabbling with my graphics tablet over the last couple of weeks and my first digital portrait is on its way.

My dogs have had to have flea killing smelly sticky stuff dripped on their necks. They are not happy about it at all. They scratch and scratch afterwards and yesterday evening I was sure Harry was sulking about it because he ignored me all evening. I think I should have saved the fleas and put them in a flea circus so they could be like Dennis the Menace's dog. Perhaps not. Evil blood sucking fiends.