I’ve fallen out of the habit of keeping the sketch diary up to date, the online version anyway. I’ve kept the sketch books just the same but painting the six portraits I did recently used up all my spare time. Then I cycled across France.

I had an idea that I’d go back and colour up the old sketches and up load them all here: do a catch up blog. But of course I won’t. The thing about a diary is that the keeper is only interested in recording today, not writing up the past.

So here are the sketches from the current book.

There’s another sketch book that’s almost entirely missing.

So getting back up to date there’s lot’s about HTA, which is about right. This includes celebration dinners…

… and fascinating presentations: this one by Lara Feigel on her book ‘The Bitter Taste of Victory’…

…and this one on Women in Architecture and women in HTA. In the non architectural areas of our business: planning, graphics, sustainability and landscape design the genders are balanced throughout the grades. In architecture they aren’t. Something to sort.