The irony of it is that I had the perfect studio space in our previous home @Zoe7, and just didn't have the heart motivation to gear up and get painting like I have here .....

I had just lost my mother .... a teacher at school was giving D3 grief about her dialect for two years until it transferred naturally and made a fool out of all her vindictive carry-on, but instead of pulling back, she increased her bullying until we left the school. The admin of the school was facing another couple of scandals so she was getting away with this in the shadow of the other ..... then D2 was being treated shamefully at her school. MIL was living nearby and causing random issues, and the house was damaged twice by flooding to the point of pack-up and move out to restore the house ....

And this period of time peppered by renovations and extensions besides ..... now I can see that all of that was part of WH's OCD .... what is he doing in Greece at the mo ? Renovations and extensions ..... what head he been doing over east last year ? More of the same on a family property there .....

You understand what I mean when I say I need heart-space to be able to paint. Now I wish I had the previous studio ... but it was what it was, and it is what it is ....

Onwards, upwards .....

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