It's the second day of December and I'm in this art and craft supply shop, The Alms House in Trowbridge, meaning to buy just a pen. Yeh, right. Like how often am I that restrained? I can't help it. It's too much of a temptation not to meander round the corner, wander up and down, pick up some tubes of paint, look at the lovely thick sketchpads of rough / smooth / coloured paper, marvel at the books offering advice on how to do things better. I could spend a small fortune.
Instead I buy this - an A6 sketch pad for £ 2.30. Why is it called Arboreta? Is it because it is made out of trees? Who knows. It is only later, walking the dogs in the wood I look at this tree and think "Oh, like the front of the sketchbook". That's it. Maybe not the inspiration of the century (or even decade, year, month...) but there we go. A tree portrait book. Hopefully I will fill the entire pad of 30 sheets. Hopefully they won't all be awful scratchy renditions and actually bear some resemblance to the actual plant itself.
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