Saturday night segued into Sunday morning with the sound of a car being over-revved. Not an unusual sound, to be honest, but not normally heard quite that late. Then a moment or two of silence, followed by a very loud bang. A glance out the front and back windows showed that all the houses were probably still standing, so we just ignored it. About 10-15 minutes later there was a sound that can best be described as someone trying to angle grind their way into something. There were also flashing lights and a lot of smoke. The yeti went out to discover a car broken down in the middle of our road (which has very little traffic), with its owner trying to persuade the police the bang was just the turbo, the smoke was minor and there was nothing to worry about. The police were of a different mind, and a few minutes later two fire tenders rolled up to deal with it in case it actually caught fire. One of them drove off again (to my mind, two did seem a bit overkill for one (literally) hot hatch).
Excitement over, I went back to day 4 of the A Zentangle a Day book. On the one hand, I do feel a bit of a mug for paying for a book that teaches what is basically structured doodling. On the other, I am getting better results than I usually do with my own unstructured doodling. I'll keep with it (at least until almost the end where it involves using supports that I have little interest in), but I can't see I will be buying into the whole Zentangle thing, going on courses with qualified instructors, and using the correct terminology, or even using the recommended equipment (I far prefer look of a 0.4 Pilot C-Tec gel pen on smooth paper than a 0.1 fibre pen on rough paper - the paper I will be keeping for watercolours!)
I will post pics at some point - once I've done some single-sided. I'm currently using both sides of quite thin paper. It's fine for practising, but the previous page shows through a bit too much for reproduction.
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