Notebook / sketchbook, where are you...

 The little (A6) black book that was started six months ago

 and which contains all sorts of jottings

has only a couple more blank pages ...

 and will soon join these

on the shelf with the other, bigger books that have accumulated since 2008, when I started the art foundation course (others dating back to the 1980s are stowed elsewhere) -

But where oh where is the stash of small, unused books? I bought about a dozen when Rymans was about to stop stocking them. I poked around in the "studio" (storeroom) and was overwhelmed at the thought of having to riffle through absolutely everything, a task that was sure to lead to a lot of time-consuming decision making about what should go and what can stay... not ready for that, at the moment ...

There is a section of shelving with unused blank books of various sizes. Either of these (A6) could be Plan B -

So, back to the living room for a bit of a tidy-up before going out to a nice event at the British Library later...

And - ah the value of tidying up!! - it was while returning a book to the shelf that I noticed, higher up

 the missing books  -

Calloo callay, oh frabjous day!