Life is so busy, but fantastic, the work on the decaying old fishing boats around our coast is coming along just fine and the work for the exhibition in March is almost done. 

A couple of weeks ago Liz and myself ventured to the Hoo peninsula in the Medway estuary (Kent) for a short break and some fun research. We found the above; a graveyard of old Thames trading barges. They were challenging to approach, very muddy and I mean, very muddy indeed; this was about as close as it was possible to get. In total there were at a guess about 10 or 12 old barges there, and just along the other side of the graveyard there is work going on to restore two of them to full working order. Fantastic!

So they were a super few days and we relaxes a little as well; finding an ancient abbey in a small place called Minster. It was all very thinking inspiring.

Hope you like the painting

Duncan