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Michael Nobbs
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Artist and tea drinker living on a hillside in Wales.
Learning to live a gentle creative life and encouraging others to do the same.
Diagnosed with #MECFS in 1997.
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Better late than never!

Here's today's #MorningView. It's a blustery day with big clouds in the sky. I'm enjoying the energy in the air, but don't have much myself today (or this week!).

Have a lovely weekend and #GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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So pleased to see the red kites dancing in the morning light today.

Wishing you the best day possible.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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We seem to be alternating between bright and sunny days and quiet and grey days here on my hillside. I enjoyed yesterday's sunny day, but am pleased to see the grey today.

Have a lovely day, whatever the weather is with you.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Welcome to a new week! It's a bright and peaceful morning on my hillside today.

Wishing you a gentle start to the week.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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So pleased to have made it to this morning's #DrawingIsFree. I'm a bit of a zombie now, but am planning a quiet day or two.

There are a couple more of my drawings from the session over on Instagram (I focused an a few poses and left early). #pwME #MECFS #ArtYear

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A large sketchbook is open in portrait orientation on a glass desk in front of a computer monitor. It is partially covering a silver keyboard. To its right is an earthenware mug with an illustration of a speckled hen on its side. Behind the sketchbook and under the monitor are various pieces of small unidentifiable technology and some wires. In the sketchbook is what looks like a very rapid drawing of a bald man with a grey beard and a very square jaw. He is drawn in a mixture of oil pastels and a black and a purple pencil. The marks are fast and bold; the pastels have been put down in large areas of colour, their thick marks clearly visible and defining the shape of the man's beard, head and the black top he is wearing; the pencil marks are thin and rapid, picking out the man's features on the top of the blocks of pastel colours.
March 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I've not been as present here this week as I would have liked, but here's today's #MorningView. It's a lovely soft, restful grey day and I'm hoping that it might stay the same for my #OfflineWeekend.

Wishing you a gentle and restorative weekend if that's what you need. #GoGently ❤️🐌

#ArtYear #pwME
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Today I've been recording & editing a Creativity Session for my lovely patrons.

Watch this and all my other new Patreon content for free for three months by accepting my offer of a gift membership.

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#Artist #pwME #MECFS #GentleCreativity #ArtYear
March 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Here's today's #MorningView. If the trees weren't still bare, I'd swear that it was May. The sun is early-summer bright and the air warm and fresh.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Today's morning tea-tray drawing is a bit of a scribble, but every drawing counts! 😊✍️

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#ArtYear #DrawingEveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS #GentleCreativity
A square photograph of a tea tray covered with a floral cloth sits a small sketchbook open in portrait orientation. Above the sketchbook on the left of the image the bottom of a white milk jug is visible. Just touching the base of the mug is a black plastic fountain pen with sits across the top of the sketchbook. Next to that in the top right of the image is a lime green teapot. In the sketchbook is an ink drawing; self-portrait of a bearded man in his fifties wearing round glasses. He fills the page and is looking to the right of the image. The drawing has been made with quick, bold marks. The man maybe smiling a little.
March 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A beautiful and mostly peaceful #MorningView today (until a crow makes their presence known at the very end of the video 📣😬).

Wishing you a peaceful day.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Here's today's #MorningView. There was a light drizzle as I stood by my gate recording this for you just after I'd finished today's #DrawingIsFree session.

Now I'm back indoors I'm realising how much of a zombie I'm feeling, so think I'll need to be quiet here today.

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear
March 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Good morning! I hope you had a good weekend.

I'm tired but happy after making it along to my second week of Chloe Brig's #DrawingIsFree portrait drawing sessions.

I hope your week is starting well. Go gently ❤️🐌

#ArtYear #adrawingeveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS
A large sketchbook is sitting open on a desk in front of a computer monitor. Under the monitor is a mug with a large blue letter "M" on its front. Underneath and to the left of the monitor the right corner of a chess set is visible. Next the sketch book the tops of a sharpie pen and a purple coloured pencil are just visible. In the sketchbook, which is sitting in portrait orientation, is a drawing of a woman in her fifties drawn from below. She is wearing large glasses and is using her left hand to prop up her face. The drawing has been made with fast, bold purple pencil lines.
March 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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My final #MorningView of the week. Beautiful clouds and that ball of light over the trees! It's chilly though. I should have put on a second pair of socks 🧦🧦

Have the best possible of days and a gentle weekend ❤️🐌

#GoGently #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit #OfflineWeekend
March 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Here's this morning's tea-tray drawing. Whilst I did have a good night last night, I've not been sleeping well this week and I think it shows! Also I'm not sure those rather small wobbly-drawn glasses would fit on my face. 🤓

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#ArtYear #adrawingeveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS
A pen and ink self-portrait of a bearded man in his fifties made in a small sketchbook. There is a wobbly pair of round glasses siting on his forehead that look suspiciously like they are too small to fit on his face, his eyes are wide and staring, with wrinkles around and under them. His forehead is a little lined with some blemishes visible. He has a wide nose. There maybe a little of a smile playing around his mouth, which has been drawn with a single line. Small wisps of hairs are visible around the upper half of his head and on his forehead. He looks like he could do with more sleep and having his head shaved. The sketchbook sits on a tea tray that is covered with a floral cloth. To the right of the little sketch book is a dark blue metal fine liner pen, about half the size of a full-sized pen. Above it the edge of a mug with a capital "M" on its side is visible and moving around the tray from right to left the bottom of a milk carton, the base of a green teapot and the edge of a small white saucer can be seen.
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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After yesterday's bright and chilly morning, today it's grey and chilly (which is perfect for a rest day, which is just what I'm going to have 😊💤).

I hope today can be whatever sort of day you need.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MorningView #ArtYear #adrawingeveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I'm doing a bit of a David Attenborough impersonation in today's Patreon video!

(Don't forget that I'm offering free three-month gift memberships to my middle paid Patreon tier for Bluesky followers 😊 Get yours before they're gone).

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#pwME #MECFS #Gentle #Creativity
March 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It's very bright and very chilly on my hillside this morning 😊❄️☀️

Wishing you some moments of peace in your day.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

# MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Here's this morning's tea-tray drawing. I didn't sleep well last night and can see a long nap in my future (!), but think I look surprisingly chipper in this self-portrait 😊

Wishing you the best possible of days.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#ArtYear #adrawingeveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS
A sketchbook in portrait orientation sits over the corner of a tea tray covered in a floral cloth. To the left of the sketchbook sits a yellow pencil stub with a blunt lead and a gold ferrule with the remains of a yellow eraser peaking out of its end. The pencil stub is shorter than the ferrule. Also on the tray and surrounding the sketchbook the handles and bases of, a green teapot, a milk jug and cream-coloured mug are just visible. The mug has what looks like a capital "M" on its side. An illustration of a grey chicken is visible on the top right of the try handle. In the sketchbook is a self-portrait spreading across the two visible pages. It is made with bold, thick pencil lines and is of a bearded bald man in his fifties sitting up in bed. He is wearing round glasses and a t-shirt and has heavy lines under one of his eyes, suggesting that he might be a little weary.
March 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I'm moving v slowly and am planning a quiet day, but before plonk myself on my sofa with a cup of tea, I did want to share my #MorningView.

It was so bright today that I couldn't see what I was filming and the video is a bit wobbly! 😊

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Here's today's early morning tea and drawing. I was feeling quite chipper after my weekend spent (mostly) offline.

#ArtYear #adrawingeveryday #CreativeHabit #DailyHabit #pwME #MECFS
A close up of a tea tray covered in a floral cloth. The Bottom edge of a mug and handle are visible in the right hand of the image and the bottom of a green teapot sits at the top. Below the teapot sits a small sketchbook, to the left of which are a small blue pocket pen, a longer hello pencil with a gold-coloured ferrule and a yellow eraser and a plastic black fountain pen. In the sketchbook is a self-portrait of a bald, bearded man in his fifties sitting up in bed. He is drawn with firm lines in black ink and is wearing a grey t-shirt coloured with pencil. Behind his head is a bedhead, again coloured in pencil. The background of the image is made up of small circular black lines creating a start contact the unmarked white of the paper that highlights the drawing of the man.
March 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Good morning! I hope you had a good weekend.

Today's #MorningView includes two red kites, three sheep and a VERY loud crow.

Wishing you the best possible start to the week.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The day looks promisingly restful here in Wales and I'm planning another day mostly in bed. If you need a rest day today, I hope you're able to have one.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

# MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Here's today's #MorningView from my gate. It's sunnier morning and here was a lovely warm breeze on my face as I recorded this for you.

I hope your day is starting well.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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A greyer day here today. I always appreciate days like this when I need to rest. I'm retreating back to bed for the day.

Wishing you the weather and the sort of day that you need today.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MorningView #MECFS #pwME #Artyear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I'm struggling with my energy today & wasn't sure I'd make it out to record my #MorningView, but I'm glad I did. My toes and hands are cold now, so I think it's time to sit by the fire with a cup of tea for a while!

Wishing you a good day.

#GoGently ❤️🐌

#MECFS #pwME #ArtYear #Wales #CreativeHabit
March 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM