Flick! then a nice walk

I achieved two long-winded tasks today.

1. I finally chose, after testing many, a database programme for managing my art inventory. I fell in love with Flick! after testing it this morning. It's free to try so I recommend it. I've tried Working Artist, ArtLook, Artist Butler, iPhoto, my own Excel sheets, my own Filemaker set-up, and began to get completely disheartened. I summed it up this way in an email:

"Every other program I've tried I sat trying to visualise how I could use each of the screens and tools "my way". With Flick I actually sat oohing and aaahing every time I clicked another button! The ways I could use it were so obvious."

2. I managed to fail completely to try and get together with the old Canvas Club at the National Maritime Museum. I know a few old members from back in 2000-2002 when I was part of the group are still there and that they were meeting today. Now that I'm "local" I thought it'd be nice to get in touch again. I walked over in the morning to be told they were meeting in the afternoon. So I walked over again in the afternoon to be told that they were meeting at one of the NMM's storage facilities (a great deal of their collection is in storage) for sketching rather than the main museum. Fortunately I live at the end of the park which the NMM sits in so it was not only a fairly local walk but also a lovely one. We had a strange day of very short sudden bursts of rain, so the skies were amazing. I can hardly complain about it when this is my local park, now can I?

(Images left to right top row first: Conker tree in the park, Canary Wharf in the distance and the Old Naval College, Walkway at the National Maritime Museum, hill with the Royal Observatory, The Old Naval College again, and by an entrance to the bottom of Greenwich Park.)