Well Liz and myself are off traveling again. This time is up north to Sheffield and to see all our friends, sons and grandsons up there.

 Now as it is a little cold, I thought maybe a sketch of a warmer clime would be appropriate, so here is Moses Mountain (the Arabs call it Mont Mose, and they pronounce the o differently as well) this is in Wadi Rum, Jordan; its where the film Lawrence of Arabia was filmed. Liz and myself spent a good few hours hanging onto the back for grim life of a four by four as the driver drove like a mad man all over the desert. He stopped occasionally for me to do a quick sketch or take photos and get our breath back, great fun. This was a very quick sketch, finished off in the hotel latter that night; but it works. 

There are many types of desert in differing places, this one is a sand and mountainous one, I have been in the Sinai, Sahara and other desserts some of them can be very cold, but this one was just so very beautiful and hot, very hot! You hear stories of the colours of the sand; but here, there are walls of rock here which are sand blasted into amazing shapes and each exposed strata is another colour. they look like massively over colour saturated pictures. Wadi Rum was one of those places which I will never forget.

Well that was better than talking about the cold in and around Sheffield; but I do love the people of and the place called Sheffield.