Hello and what a super break which Liz and myself have just had in Sussex. We stayed in Nutborough, which is very close to Pulborough, neither of which you probably heard of, never mind. The hamlet is just to the north of the South Downs, in beautiful rolling, undulating farm lands, with foot paths in every direction, most of which, with a few exceptions were well maintained; but more of that for another day..

To start with lets have the last day first. We ambled back via Uppark, a stately home which is just inside Hampshire. As usual upon finding the best view, a sketch was started, as apparently the lady of the manor was looking out of her windows and saw this rather suspicious character out side her rather grand house; so she then wandered towards me with two small dogs in tow. Nice lady, who had a very jaunty Kestrel fight feather pushed into her hair. We chatted, she liked my work, I liked her feather; she had picked the feather up earlier when out with the dogs. Rather nicely she gave rather splendid feather to me as a gift.  Very nice, it soon became the subject of a water colour, see above.

Shortly after she left,  a pleasant young lady sat near me, we chatted  for a while, whilst I did the two above sketches, after which Liz and myself ate our picnic in front of the hall. Altogether a rather pleasant visit.

A lovely break, but at the same time it is always nice to be home again.

Duncan