I don’t have a headboard; instead, I have a giant cushion from Ikea. This is a trick I picked up when I was living in Newcastle and staying in low-rate rented accommodation. I must have finished off a lot of books leaning against this pillow in the early hours of the morning!

For this postcard, I was trying to get the patterns of the bedclothes. I’ve been so concerned with trying to do the “form” of things that the patterns on top often get ignored; some of the trickiest stuff to do is the patterns on clothes. I filled in the colour with light washes of gouache over the inks, which I think worked really well.

This pattern is amazing.

I’ve just come back from Helsinki’s Pixelache festival. Rather than try and write some words about it right now, I’m just going to put up this slideshow from my Flickr set because I’m feeling a bit under the weather. I do have an idea for a longer written piece, but it’ll have to wait until I can get out of bed.

• Most of Saturday’s Guardian (Family, Travel, Review, Work sections unread, News, Magazine, Money, Guide sections read)
• A-N magazine for April (which I only found out after reading for a bit)
• A-N magazine collection ‘Production Lines‘
• A copy of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee
• An unread copy of “Why Do Buses Come in Threes?”, by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
• A copy of the novelisation of Howard the Duck (which is really good, actually)
• Unix for Mac OS X Tiger, by Dave Taylor
• Visualizing Data, by Ben Fry
• Processing, by Ira Greenberg
• Make Magazine issue 14

Technology

• The fleece case for a nokia N800
• An ipod shuffle with cable
• A usb to usb-mini cable
• My mobile phone
• A watch I got for free from Marks and Spencer
• The power unit for one of my hard-drives (12 volt 2 amp output, it says here)
• An extra copy of a Zelda game that ordered when Amazon went a bit weird on me
• Laptop of great annoyance and it’s now requisite extra keyboard. Bah.
• A TV remote

Miscellaneous

• One of Elizabeth’s notebooks
• One of my notebooks
• Various letters and A4 pieces of paper that have been sent to me by doctors and Waygood.
• Some ibuprofen
• My bag, the mysterious Zook (full report coming this week!)
• A box of sultanas
• A laminating pocket in it’s pre-laminated phase
• A gel pack for applying cold/heat to my knee

Rubbish

• A double-decker wrapper
• The inside of a box of Marks and Spencer Dutch biscuits
• Various envelopes and mailing packets

Clothes

• A v-neck jumper in royal blue
• A pair of jeans
• The detachable trouser legs from the shorts that I’m wearing