Another chapter written and illustrated

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. A fortnight ago I wrote that I’d finished writing chapter 6 and making illustrations for it. On average it has taken about 3 weeks to write and illustrate a whole chapter. Now with chapter 7 the writing came rather easily, and it was completed within a week. However, despite having by my reckoning anything up to five decent opportunities for illustration, I just couldn’t get going with it. My first attempt during the week just wasn’t good enough.

The trickiest thing about this is that I’d started writing Chapter VIII. You see the thing is that in my old job as a teacher I used to get into work about 7 am to have an hour and a half to do things before the children I taught came in. It was absolutely golden time which I’d say was worth about 2 hours at any other time of the day. Well, I don’t go into work in my new job now until 8 am, so that gives me a little bit of time after breakfast but before leaving the house. I don’t write every day, but it’s not that uncommon for me to dash off anything up to five hundred words in a morning. I’ve already written more than a quarter of the chapter.

So, this weekend I girded my metaphorical loins and got down to business. Thus far I’ve only made three illustrations to chapter VII. However, at least this means that I’ve now completed 28 so I’m on target for an average of four per chapter. So without further ado – here’s the pictures – as usual no explanations I’m sorry.

An Arctic Hare and a Baronet

A ewe in a welsh shawl. Would ewe believe it?

Despite the expression he's a very happypotamus