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The Lockdown Blog, Day 19

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréApril 1, 202012 Comments

Tuesday 31st March 8.00am I start the day the usual way: getting bread together so that by the time everyone is hungry it might actually be ready. It takes ages. In normal times you can buy fast action dried yeast. The whole thing is easy – in fact, it’s pretty fast action. Out comes bread…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 18

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 31, 20206 Comments

Monday 30th March 3.00pm I have put together a Lockdown Art Kit for my brother Mal. He is a very able sketcher (most people are but he’s really, really good at observation) and I am always trying to evangelise him to develop a regular sketching habit. Now that he cannot leave the house or do…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 17

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 30, 20204 Comments

Sunday 30th March 2.00pm My daughter Liv (15) looks rather 19th-century and somewhat wan sitting in my rocking chair, and I sketch her as fast as I can. Looks are deceptive, however, and she is as fit and strong as an ox. 5.00pm I continue to prepare and upload files for my American publisher. I…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 16

BlogBy Roisín CuréMarch 29, 2020Leave a comment

Saturday 28th March Most of the Day I am organising, editing and sending images for my new book on drawing people to my publisher. My concentration is shot but I have promised to send everything by, well, yesterday. It is taking a long time to process the images. I hope people buy the book and…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 15

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 28, 2020Leave a comment

Friday 27th March 10.00am Paddy (18) hangs the washing on the line. It’s whites, and consists of sheets, towels and a few socks and pants. He says if we think he is going to hang underpants on the line, we are mad. Later, I see them fluttering dry and clean in the breeze and Liv…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 14

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 27, 20204 Comments

Thursday 26th March 3.00pm I am upstairs in my home, about to get ready to go out for a walk. Liv (15) and I coo over Reuben, the fluffy white terrier, who is gamboling around the bedrooms carefree and happy. We both find him adorable beyond belief, ever since the first time we saw him…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 13

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 26, 20202 Comments

Wednesday 25th March 7.00am I’ve had a disturbing dream. I am looking out of the window into the back garden. It’s dark out. Before my eyes, a shrub in the distance bursts into flames. It is sudden and violent, and the flames spread very quickly to the rest of the garden. I run to get…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 12

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 25, 20204 Comments

Tuesday 24th March All day I’m sewing in my studio. I cut and iron and pleat. I’m stitching away when Paddy (18) comes down to my studio for help with his Spanish oral exam. He has the Leaving Cert coming up soon, or did have, anyway. “Mum, do you mind?” he says, when I whirr…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 11

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréMarch 24, 2020Leave a comment

Monday 23rd March 9.00am I’m supposed to be on my way into the Natural History Museum on Merrion Square in Dublin to sketch with a bunch of lovely women. It would have been the last day of my workshop in Dublin. Never mind. It’s only postponed, and others are very sick. Still others have died…

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The Lockdown Blog, Day 10

BlogBy Roisín CuréMarch 23, 20202 Comments

Sunday 22nd March 8.30am It’s Mother’s Day in Ireland and I’m in bed, but I have to get up soon because I’m meeting my friend for a walk in the Burren. Reuben scratches prettily at the door, and I ask my husband Marcel to get up and let him in, seeing as it’s Mothers’ Day.…

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