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124-3591 – Mausoleum cheese watch cat shit

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On this busy day, after dropping our daughter at the airport, we visited the Njegoš Mausoleum – which is in the top part of this sketch. To get there we had to drive up 23 hairpin bends to the plateaux and mountains. Afterwards we went to the village of Njeguši (the birthplace of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš), where we visited the small museum and had a fantastic cheese platter for lunch at the Restaurant Bastadur. After all that went to beach in Kotor – where I unfortunately broke my Apple Watch (it was too old to be waterproof) and then when I started the lower part of this sketch, I found the bench was contaminated with a small amount of smelly cat shit …which kind of spoilt the day!

Sat-15-Aug-2026

123-3574 – Lewes Priory Park

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After our long walk over the Downs we walked around Lewes seeing the castle, a church, down the Twittens (a “twitten” is an old Sussex word for a narrow path or alleyway running between walls or buildings and Lewes has a famous network of these Saxon pathways), through Southover Grange Gardens (set next to the 16th-century Southover Grange Manor House) where we had ice creams and then to Priory Park. This is a public park build around the remains of the 11th-century Priory of St. Pancras, mostly demolished in 1537, I believe by Henry VIII.

Wed-29-Jul-2026

123-3564 – Platform one cafe

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Our eldest daughter’s birthday started with lunch with my mum, followed by a walk in Clare Castle Country Park. We first looked at the castle remains (mostly crumbly old walls), then hiked through the park and into very dry farmers fields where our daughters stopped every few steps for photograph bugs and weeds….so only after a quarter of our planned route we took a detour (not hacking across a farmers fields as I proposed), sticking to a bridle path and back into the village along a road. We stopped at this cafe which is housed in an old train station for a refreshing drink and then had a take-away Bangladeshi dinner.

Thu-23-Jul-2026

122-3556-7 – Maria Uson, Ed and the old legislative building

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Maria Uson and Ed

On 16 July I joined Urban Sketchers Manila for a meet up and to join in the Centennial Trails event at the National Museum of the Philippines, which celebrated 100 years of the Old Legislative Building (which is now the museum). My first sketch was done during the introductory talks, which was followed by a guided tour with a researcher who explained the architectural history.

The old legislative building

We then went outside and sketched the front of the building from nearby the Gomburza monument – which I sketched back in Feb 2024 (see sketches No.2590-91).

Thu-16-Jul-2026

122-3535 – Cafe BBC coffee

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This is the last sketch I did at the Día de Manila event, from inside the Museo de Intramuros. Afterwards, to close out our sketch-walk, @the_uban_sketcher and I went into the courtyard to have coffee there. The people serving the coffee were very nice and took a photo of us to post on their social media account. I am sorry to say though, that the coffee was pretty tasteless and not nice at all!

Sun-21-Jun-2026

122-3534 – San Ignacio and the Jesuits

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Here is another of my sketches from the sketchwalk for Día de Manila. This is San Ignacio de Loyola who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1534. I gather that he is often shown holding a book because reading changed his life and he wrote some major spiritual texts. I think one of the cherubs in my sketch (which are supposed to stand for innocence and purity), looks like Robin (from Batman and Robin) because he seems to have a mask on.

Sun-21-Jun-2026

122-3532-3 – Altar piece and Sto. Domingo de Guzman

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Altar piece

Here are some more of my sketches from the Urban Sketchers Manila sketchwalk for Día de Manila. The first is of an altar piece – about which I could find nothing online or it in-situ. The next thing I sketched had a catalogue code on it saying: Wood IA-M-ECLE: 15 – 430 – which means it is wooden sculpture, part of the Intramuros Administration Museum ecclesiastical collection and the 430th object registered in a 2015 batch. I was hoping for more information! Online I found out that Sto. Domingo de Guzman was a Castilian priest who founded the Dominicans and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists.

Sto. Domingo de Guzman

Sun-21-Jun-2026