Good morning and its nice to be back, there has been a short while since my last blog because I have been away with Liz and also simply as a result of pressuer of work. Thankfully I can now catch up and am taking a couple of weeks to breath a little slower and get my puff back.

We traveled to Paignton and spent a few days chilling; the weather was perfect for water colours, so out they came. The above picture is of Paignton harbour; I was seated on a ramp down into the basin, it formed a perfect seat and being in the basin, with the mud and seaweed surrounding me, I wasn't bothered by lots of pleasant, if wellmeaning on occasion boring viewers looking over my shoulder. Normaly I enjoy the interaction with passers by, but on the odd occasion they can be a little challenging, so with good manners and patience that type normaly don't stay to long.

While we stayed at Paignton there was an airshow over the bay, our room gave us a superb panoramic viewpoint to watch the show. The two best things which we saw (from my point of view) were the Pits special stunt byplane and the fly past of a Second World War Fairey Swordfish naval bomber; it was living history before us. Unfortunatly the traffic was awful, roads were shut and our car was a prisoner in the hotel carpark for two days, which meant that we were virual prisoners as well.

We loved Dartmouth, the railway and Brixton, so all in all we had a super time.