Using those little grey cells

It is now half term and with my lecturers on a trip the week after I now have two weeks holiday! Except is not such a holiday because my next lecture in each subject is a coursework deadline! So I've got a mixture of exciting days and college work to look forward too:

I now have my very own canvas to put a ground on:
The following is a work in progress, but I shall try not to spend too much longer on it. Though the bottom 'sketch' is obviously missing chunks at present the task is to do something quick, and as a perfectionist this is quite a challenge. The subject is Emma in the Debenhams cafe in the Bullring, Birmingham.
I got a shiny new 'ArtPen' today so that I can do quick drawings in cafes; I don't think the staff would like me to take my unsealed ink pots and bamboo stick in somehow.

This evening is the start of the Poirot weekend on ITV3! I've long quite liked the show but recently I have become very fond of watching the hour long short stories in an afternoon- I wonder how long it shall be before I have watched them all! There are still two whole days to go! Don't worry though I remember some of them rather too well to watch them again when there is art to be done so I shall leave the sitting room every so often. :]

And the little grey cells need substenance! (For those wondering what I am talking about, the fictional detective Hercule Poirot of Agatha Christie novels, played by David Suchet above, often contributes his talent to those 'little grey cells'- the cells in one's brain that are very clever and logical but are rarely put in use by most of us.)
Now in the supermarket I happened to be in the frozen desert aisle and was thinking about the fact that there had only been raspberry pavlova and not strawberry pavlova in stock around my birthday and so when I saw the dish below I was delighted- except, silly me, I had pavlova on the brain, or at least something meringue, but gateau, of course, is cake. Whoops.

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.