It will be bookclub this Sunday afternoon so, yesterday, I had the bright idea of listening to my Kindle reader whilst painting. What an excellent idea to kill two birds with one stone! Or so I thought… The only little problem these past two days of listening while working has been that my Kindle reader has the voice of an American high-school girl, and the book I have to read is D.H.Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, which, as you may know, is rich in the dialogue of the Derbyshire dialect! Therefore my reader, though not entirely without inflection or intonation, has struggled to cope with missing letters, apostrophes, and “t'”s; so desperate has she become that now she spells the words out for me! And t’ say tha’ m’ mechanical reader ‘as nowt sense. Of course, she dost get a bit carried away w’it  – she even spells “S-H-E”. My reader may be suffering from dialexia…

And here are a couple of photographs of my progress with the painting…