Just needed to be heard for a little while

DUKE

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

http://www.paintingsilove.com/image/show/221732/watchdog

This is a pastel that my husband did of Big Handsome Boy when we all lived in Spain. BHB is outside the house where he lived.

Do feel free to look at his other paintings on this site!

ETA: And here's one he did of me! http://pic.pilpix.com/21/21296/hidden-byeways.jpg )

WOW SDW, marvelous! My husband does the occasional portrait. Sadly I can only manage stick wo/men The art teacher once said that my work was erotic, Mom argued that he didn't, years later I realize it was erratic :-/

jobbingmusician

Wow, 7DW, your DH is so talented! x

Hope you feel better soon, MU x

seven-day-weekend

Thank you all for your kind words, yes he does still do his pastels and has also branched into oils. He has sold several; his pet pictures are particularly popular.

Hope you feel better soon MU, sending hugs/handshakes your way xx

codemonkey

Big hugs MU. Make a blanket fort and have some jaffa cakes. Hope you feel better soon.

haybel - Max is so cute. I love his ears.

7DW - your DH is so talented. I have no artistic talent whatsoever and I wish I did. Too clumsy.

Just back from a walk with the dog in the wind and rain. He just loves walks so much that we stayed out for much longer than I meant to. And now he's got a marrowbone and I have some chocolate. Diet starts (again) tomorrow. By the way if you take a square of galaxy and a square of dairy milk and eat them together it's all kinds of awesome.

Waves_and_Smiles

I logged on to adorable dog pics and wonderful art, what a lovely way to start the day!

MU, sending you hugs. Do you have coping techniques that you can use for times like this? I do know how the rushing thoughts feel, hence why Bipolar is questionable with me. I find writing it down can help, just writing down every thought that comes into my head no mater how silly it is, even if it is random words. I find the more I can push it out the more relief there is. Please feel free to write here as much as you need to, we are all here for you. Please keep yourself safe.

I am ok today, a bit paranoid but otherwise better than I have been since the phone call. I am more excited than WaSp is for his birthday and for his cactus to arrive. I don't think that I mentioned that I included a little birthday cake, too. I also have balloons and streamers to put up tonight and I saved enough for him to have a takeaway, we haven't had one for 2 years. I am a big kid.

whitewing

I love balloons (although not them popping)

Waves_and_Smiles

Me too, whitewing! I shall decorate when he goes to MIL's later. She has insisted he stays here on his birthday night and is going to buy him some beer so with a takeaway as well hopefully WaSp should have a good day!

seven-day-weekend

My husband has had a lovely surprise today. One of his ex-pupils, who is a stand-up comedian, came up to him and gave him a little booklet. It was a little book of comic strips which the student had drawn and written himself and had published. Inside, on the dedication page, was a dedication to

'Mr W, Mr L, Mr Husband, and Mr M.
Teachers who not only didn't mind me doodling in the margins, but who actively preferred it to the work I was supposed to be doing. This book wouldn't exist without them.'

My husband was literally moved to tears and gave the young man a long hug. How lovely, and how important it is to thank those people who have an influence on their lives.

Waves_and_Smiles

Oh, that is absolutely lovely, SDW! I always believe in thanking everyone who has helped me, even if it is years later. I still occasionally thank my teacher friend for dragging me through my childhood in one piece, and 10 years after I last saw her I thanked my first therapist. I strongly believe in telling everyone who has helped you how important their influence was, and it is never too late to do so.

seven-day-weekend

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Oh, that is absolutely lovely, SDW! I always believe in thanking everyone who has helped me, even if it is years later. I still occasionally thank my teacher friend for dragging me through my childhood in one piece, and 10 years after I last saw her I thanked my first therapist. I strongly believe in telling everyone who has helped you how important their influence was, and it is never too late to do so.

Absolutely agree. My husband once rang up his old Geography teacher, forty years after he (husband) left school, and thanked him for letting him clean fossils instead of playing football all those years ago - my husband went on to become a Geography teacher. We have also just found an e-mail address for the person who used to be the admissions tutor (also a Geography lecturer) at the Polytechnic where my husband was working as a security guard. My husband is going to e-mail him this afternoon to thank him for spotting his potential and encouraging him to become a mature student.

These things have to be done if you possibly can.