Shetland Trip Day 1

No sooner back from the Grand Tour and Jos is off to the Shetlands! Margaret invited Jos to come with her and friends to Shetland for 2 weeks - an offer not to be missed!
Train from Hexham to Aberdeen, then overnight ferry to Lerwick and after a few hours a bus trip to Vidlin to be picked up by holiday cottage owner.

Day 8 Grand Tour

Time to get back home - strightforward drive back to Hudsriding and now Jos has to get ready for her trip to Shetland on Friday! On day 1, Meg suggested she could join a trip up to Shetland for two weeks. Time to get the paints out...

Day 7 Grand Tour

A visit to Cliff & Carols - just talking about families and Geraldine and children turned up - They've all grown a bit since we last saw them!
We all went for a walk down to the new river bridge and after seeing the lock in operation, Stepen turned up!
Time again to move on - this time to Penny's to see how much the boys had also grown!

Geraldine & children - Happy family shot!

Cliff & Carol

The new bridge

1st time Cliff had seen a barge in the lock (I've never seen the lock before!)

Steve magically apeared!

Grown up boys (me included!)

Penny with moon on the tv

Day 6 Grand Tour

Day 6 - we woke up to light rain after camping in the garden (wonderful!). Again, all too soon it's time to move on.
Stroud was the next port of call to see Wendy who was expecting a phone call any minute to say she's a grandma! A visit to Butterow wher uncle Len lived and a walk on the common and again it's onward to Worcester. Unfortunately an accident on the M5 meant another motorway crawl for an hour.

Ken and Sara's productive garden

Sara outside wooden house

Two Lg's!

Day 5 Grand Tour

Down the beach at Southsea...

Down the beach

Sunny days

Steve's back garden - lovely!

Onward again to rural Wiltshire and Sara's idyll home.
Ken was busy making hay while the sun shone (working on the house), so we had a lovely walk through the surrounding countryside which included the Kennet and Avon canal.

Sara's local walk

Kennet & Avon Canal

storm coming to albury

Thierry in the bath

This is another painting done in a project entitled 'figures in space' where the concept was to create an environment with people in it. Its pretty big, about 110x100cm on canvas. the next topic is self generated and i am going to continue with figurative work, starting by inserting falling people into a movement and seeing where it goes.

anutha paint

This is another painting, also A1 ish on canvas- it was done by destroying the paint in layers- so i wasted loads of paint doing it- but mostly Tafes (haha), it was very frustrating/fun. let me know what you think with complete honesty as im not sure if it is actually good to look at or not!!

a picture what i dun

Here is a picture wot i dun yesterday with paint and paper and stuff

Days 3-4 Grand Tour

Continuing on from last night and plenty more history from Bab's!
All too soon it's time to leave and it's onward to Steve & Sheila at Portsmouth...

Steve's allotment

Storm

Photo opportunity!

Helping the worker...

Day 2 Grand Tour

We left Margaret's and after visiting her friend round the corner, made our way to Stevenage where we met up with Den & Rose in a pub near the hospital (Den had appointments that day).

On again and after an accident just in front of us on the A1M and being stuck in an M25 traffic jam for an hour, finally arrived at Bab's in Mottingham.

Time for a G&T and Kate called in. Bab's cooked us a lovely meal and then Jos & Bab's were soon reminiscing about Guyhirn...

Stuck on the M25

Jos & Kate

Jos & Babs

Day 1 Grand Tour

Down to Papworth a slightly different way. A visit to the churchyard and then on to Jos's old friend Margaret in Cambridge where we stayed for the night. No pics - forgot to get the camera out!

Grand Tour

First time for many a year and we're off on a grand (southern) tour!
Jos and I are visiting friends and relatives over the next few days hoping the weathers's not too good in Scotland!
More to come...

Great North 10k

Me, Ben and Phil with our medals. Shame it took us longer to get out of the car park than it did for Ben to run the race!

ok im just putting out some feelers for this...

Durham Day

Saturday found Jos & I across in County Durham for the day:
First casting a critical eye over Joanna & Phils potential property purchase - nice place! (no pics yet as I didn't get the camera out in the rain).
Then a meal in the local pub - Phil's folks, Ben & Gemma were also in attendance so a good time was had by all!
Back to the Durham flat and a walk with the dog before we were off to Tantobie for Jane's 60th bash! The picture says it all!

Seaside and Session

Thursday saw us at the seaside - a trip to Longhoughton to taste the sea air.
Then the Crown 2nd Thursday 'Irish' session with plenty of folks turning up - no pics though as I forgot my camera!

Howick Haven - another wonderful Northumberland beach

Cullernose Point - a regular painting spot!

Barney had to get in the picture!

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