Grrrrrr! (Edited highlights)

Dear Rishi Sunak Like many in #NorthYorkshire I’m #selfemployed. The only #CoronaCrisis help you're offering is means-tested basic universal credit. If employed the govt would pay 80% of my salary, NOT means tested. How is this fair? A tax holiday won’t help if my income crashes.

Keen to get on with the gardening but short of supplies? Braithwaites of Leeming Bar and Ravensworth Nurseries are both doing local deliveries - just email or phone your order to them!

Here's a picture I painted in 2003, called 'Germs'. Unfortunately I didn't think to paint a companion piece called 'Now Wash Your Hands'.

"Rest of World Disappeared" (2010)

Blowing a gale in North Yorkshire. Here's a windswept dog I prepared earlier.

Essential reading for anyone who fondly supposes the government aren't a bunch of bungling idiots. theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

Social Distancing foretold #2. I painted 'Pointless Excavation' in 2012.

Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost', and visitor.

That 'morning after' feeling.

HMRC: "Don't wait until 31 Jan to do your Self Assessment Tax return." Me: Try telling that to the cat.

Looming. (Picnic At Pompeii): picnicatpompeii.bandcamp.com/album/theres-a…

Check out Kev Grosvenor’s fabulous HomeBrew Electronica Show electronica podcast, available today from 8pm at homebrewelec.buzzsprout.com. This month Kev is featuring and supporting a selection of #Ukrainian artists. Also included on the show is ‘Timestamp’ from the new Picnic at Pompeii album.