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7th<\/sup> June<\/p>\n

(Our first wet day)<\/p>\n

(Jess very crook \u2013 3 days)<\/p>\n

Went up to Kos. Again yesterday the third time within the week. Visited there on the Thursday & afternoon tead & took Dawnie up to Dainer\u2019s Gap. How she revelled in the snow, belly deep and leg embracing. How she scooped and chewed & pranced & SNIFFED. Too bad I didn\u2019t have the camera to get a picture of her eating the blooming stuff. Hear her clicking galloping down the road after me. Seemed to be nowhere but under the points of my skis. Turned much better. Snow, what there was of it, delightful, powdery over a frozen surface. Fool proof. Would run out of petrol 2 miles from home, and of course would leave the tinfull at the camp. OF COURSE!<\/p>\n

Three of us tramped drearily in great boots soon to feel like leaden boots of divers. Tramp back. Two cars passed going the wrong way, OF COURSE! Got back after an hours walking. No darn wonder my legs are getting fatter. Friday, another lousy strip. Wednesday, much excitement, PAY DAY, Whoops!<\/p>\n

Saturday gave the old girl up in the hills a neck and did feel most disconsolate at night. Sunday, Kos. Did ourselves regally and had dinner at the Hotel. Sat by fire and listened or appeared to listen to Miss Happ telling dirty jokes. God! What a boresome business that all is. Met Arthur Hill who gave me a lift up to Daner\u2019s in his car. Three others. Lent myself to help photograph\u2019s appearance. Crowd from Cooma up there. What a joke the old boy with his sons were. And how he skied like riding a horse and with the bottom of his pyjamas showing beneath the leg of his trousers. A riot. In an old lorry \u2013 Christeson or something Swedish like. All swarming on the slope like maggots over a corpse.<\/p>\n

Teddy took me into the Speet Holy of Holies where photos were duly inspected. Will I ever forget that old man Speet in his days of early marriage. Ma-Teddy & Pa & someone else. Ma-in-la I suppose. But Pa\u2019s mustachios! Better than anything ever seen in the pictures or in musical comedy. Gendarmerie style \u2013 a la Kaiser avec splayed out ends. Classics of their kind. A real loss to posterity that he didn\u2019t clip them off holus-bolus and mount them under glass. I could dream about their rhythm, their poetry, their fire! And I\u2019ll bet he thought he was a wow!<\/p>\n

Pretty near wasted a whole day trying to paint Ernst Skardarasy. Having gone wrong on him before I sadly think I\u2019ll never get it right. What evil genius prompts me to tell people I\u2019ll do them a caricature. I never can. A curious form of self flagellation. Just a waste of time & paper to say nothing of the havoc wrought amongst nerves & temper. IDIOT!<\/p>\n

Did my own butchery today. Butch has cut his hand.<\/p>\n

Been drawing cows this week.<\/p>\n

What crazy visions of a life time\u2019s art in 6 months I\u2019ve entertained. How much I thought I\u2019d do and learn and how little I have accomplished. A couple of paltry paintings and a realization of the immensity of the task. A realization of how little can be done in a few weeks \u2013 of how short the days are in which to endeavour. And of how hard it is to be resigned, to realise that it all doesn\u2019t matter and that the number of paintings is not so important at the moment as learning to see. The time I spend in seeing. At least I\u2019m learning that. A groundwork, a new outlook, a basis upon which I can build when the tempo of the mind is not so agitated, wanting to do all things, knowing it lacks the time. And yet, I think I\u2019m learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7th June (Our first wet day) (Jess very crook \u2013 3 days) Went up to Kos. Again yesterday the third time within the week. Visited there on the Thursday & afternoon tead & took Dawnie up to Dainer\u2019s Gap. How she revelled in the snow, belly deep and leg embracing. How she scooped and chewed … <\/p>\n

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