Yesterday when in town, Liz and myself bumped into an old friend of hers from long ago. In a few days she is off up north and spending a day or two in York; one of my favourite cities. So here is a water-colour for you Fran.

It was a lovely day sketching in York a couple of years ago. As I was sat on a low wall outside the West end of the Cathedral working, a pony and trap with passengers on board was passing by, the driver stopped and passed me a cushion to sit on, saying that he would be back in half a hour for it. Then shortly afterwards a waitress came out of Betties (the well known coffee shop) with a cup of coffee for me; I was really spoilt that day. Several passers by stopped to chat as well; all in all it was rather pleasant. Maybe the resulting water-colour shows that I was a little happy. Out of interest my last blog was of Wells and not Bath.