Good morning and you might have noticed that I have not placed a blog for a couple of weeks, the reason is simple, it is because we were away; it has been a busy time! We had a new kitchen instaled, which meant, no electricity, no water, builders around, so our lovely small masionette was rather crowded, not very warm and with no area for food preparation.The answer is simple, go away and leave them to it, which we did. 

At the same time I recied new eyes!!!! Well I had my cataracts removed and new lenses placed in both eyes; they were both done at the same time and the result is staggering. Iam delighted with my new vision, I cann't remember seeing like this before. I was working on an ink drawing the following day; the improvment continued for about four days until they reached an anastounding clarity of vision.. Thank you everybody for my lovely new eyes.

We went to Sidmouth, our favorite happy place for a few days and as usual visited to sketch that fishing village called Beer, see above; it was a tad chilly sitting on the stoney beach painting, note the wind in the flags,but it was good fun and then on to Taunton where we stayed with friends, before winding our way home via Bridgewater; we will not dwell on that, but the hotel was nice.

So we are now home, have a lovely new kitchen and eyes, so we are both happy