Today has been a brilliant day, I say that because the day has been full; this morning leading a watercolour painting workshop at St. Columba's, it went excedingly well. The workshop was about the uncertainty of our British weather and also how to handle watercoulour paints when you do not have a lot of time for a large painting to be completed. The session with about 14 people present went very well indeed. They all worked so hard that they were all given a "Wagon wheel" sweet, my favorite from my childhood.

At the workshop were a couple of people who had been to the Isle of Iona in the Hebrides, I painted there some years ago so I agree to put one of my Iona watercolour sketches onto my blog. The place is called "The strand of the monks", which lies just north of the abbey. Sadly it is the site of a mass killing of so many monks by the Vikings in about the C9AD; A sad story, which happened in a beautiful bay. So, a good enjoyable morning. In the afternoon Liz and myself had a quietish time watching a film on the tv before, when the evening came round, us going out for a fish supper is a restraunt; now that is what I call a rather splendid day.

I am now tired, satisfied and going to bed.

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