What a mess of a fortnight.  We finally got the awning for the boat.  It's ok.  Could have been better.  Anyway we decided to finally go for our hopefully week long sail.  But we had to first wait for the weather to settle.  We finally got away last Monday, took ages to fill the boat up as we had completely emptied it after our long holiday.  Got to Lymington on Monday and we had booked for two night.  Daniel and Beatrice came down on Tuesday and stayed with us for ages.  Had a really lovely time.  Everyone was very relaxed.  However Tuesday evening we had to make a decision because, surprise, surprise the weather was going to change again.  Wednesday morning we made the decision to leave bright and early.  Had a really good sail down to East Cowes.  Lunch on the boat, followed by a bit of messing about then emptying the boat!  Lucky we did come back because Thursday and Friday were awful.  It's now Sunday and we are preparing to go to Lymington again on Tuesday after my blood test.  The weather looks ok for the next few days, so fingers crossed.

I've broken my no buy rule for art.  Bought some paper, two sketch books and an art bag.  I don't like the sketching paper I'm on at the moment, so thank goodness only one more page to go.

Last group painting was at Ventnor.  Have now missed another two!