Sketching Weakly has been at the zoo, often looking at invertibrates, amphibians and reptiles….    The cockroaches were looking particularly delicious.

Sketching Weakly had never seen a snake-necked turtle before – nearest thing ever to a plesiosaur…

And another new animal was the mysterious Caecilian.

Tree on the way there:

And people on the way back…

Sketching Weakly has been Out & About in Norfolk, often in pubs…Every pub needs its own chickens. (The Hare Arms)

These ladies are painted on the side of that baby elephant.

A bit of a chestnut tree.

The Sunday Skateboarders down at Meadow Lane, run by the excellent Oxford Wheels Project…

A week or two ago when the leaves were only just begun…

It’s getting contagious…

At the wonderful Natural History Museum in Oxford; these specimens were obligingly keeping still…

and these ones were being more mobile…

A small person feeling a bit trapped…but can she fit out of the bottletop?

Whoever is in charge of the annual Autumn leaf display has done an outstanding job this year. There’s a breaktaking show of luminous colours everywhere. Tried to sketch it…