Winter's Coming!

Two things conspired today which lead to me starting a new "hobby"...

First the weather took a turn for the worse and it was a day for doing something indoors and second, a present arrived for me from Colin....

Jean and Nick had recently been kind enough to give me some rough blocks of tuffeau, so that I could have a go at carving and I couldn't wait to get started!...

The block was easy enough to cut using a wood saw..

A second cut,

and I had just the piece I needed to try to recreate something like this

I did say "something like"! and here he is!

Tomorrow?? Michelangelo's David?!

Pretty good for a first attempt I say, but then again I am biased...

Rat update.

Last night ALL the Raticide was gone in less than 1½ hours... It has been restocked and the camera reset...