Life's A Bed of Roses ...

Life's Not A Bed of Roses ...

This is part of a board graphic on a skateboard deck. The deck hangs on my dining room wall. It is by 'A Third Foot', a skateboard company from the Midlands. The design is by Chris Bourke (I got him to autograph this deck!)

Chris is a great fella. Here he is in his 'own' words ...

I'm not very good at coming up with this stuff so I got someone to do it for me:
"Chris Bourke is an artist, skateboarder and former skate shop owner based in Worcester, UK. He owned and operated the fiercely independent skate shop Spine for eleven years.
For the past five years, he has worked almost solely in the labour intensive medium of lino prints; cutting and printing each design by hand himself, so no two prints are the exactly same. His influences are tattoo art (having trained as a tattooist), religion/religious art, music, nature and politics."

Check out his website, if you're interested - http://chrisbourkeart.com

Ofsted went really well today. It was a one day 'subject inspection' of Literacy. The school achieved a 'good with outstanding features' grading. Our teaching was deemed to be a 1 ... outstanding. I'm ever so slightly pleased ...