One Sketch 317) Chinese New Year

Do not worry
Never fear
But celebrate
The Lunar year.

Yes, it's Chinese New Year - and we usher in the Year of the Pig. Oink oink.

One Sketch 316) (Monday 4th Feb) Iron Bridge

Let the waters flow
In this bridge we trust
Been there since 1781
Hope it's safe from rust.

I visited Iron Bridge in 1781. It's a hell of a lot more impressive than it looks in this picture, and a great place to visit. Being the first actual iron bridge, a lot of the techniques used to fit pieces of the bridge together were actually techniques used in wooden bridge making - mainly because there were not metal bridge making techniques yet.

One Sketch 315 (Sunday 3rd February) Feed the birds

Feed the birds
Tuppence a bag
Tuppence
Tuppence
Tuppence a bag
(Then they'll crap on your funny hat.)

Feed the birds - that was the prompt from Sketching Every Day.

One Sketch 314) Ground Hog Day

I hope that you won't think it's too obscene
When I confess my worship of the bean (you see what I did there?! Geddit!)

Yes, another Sketching Every Day prompt, and one for a great movie, although I do say so.

One Sketch 313) (Friday 1st Feb) Ideal Job - Coffee Sump

I hope that you won't think it's too obscene

If I confess my worship of the bean.

Prompt on Sketching Everyday - ideal fantasy job. This gets most of it, although not quite all. Ideally I want to be paid to sit in coffee shops and talk rubbish to people. So if by any chance you know of someone who is willing to pay to hire someone to sit in coffee shops and talk rubbish to people . . . 

One Sketch 312) Chicago Streetcar

My kind of trams
Chicago had
Now they're all gone
That's kind of sad.
Simple explanation - today's Sketching Every Day prompt was  Chicago, so couldn't resist taking this tack with it. This is based on a photo from the mid 50s.

One Sketch 311) (Weds 30th January) Westminster Abbey

For a thousand years
My bells have tolled
For kings,
And their dust,
Is my buried treasure.

Not a lot to say, other than I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the good old Abbey in my home town.