Well, here we go again.  Perry is in France at the moment, so I am in charge of Bertie, who has managed to pull a muscle in his back leg as he was charging for the front door this morning!  Consequently he is feeling very sorry for himself and I am just about to go out painting....

Went on a painting workshop last Friday.  It was really good and I hope I can manage to put some of the information into practice.  Trying a new source for storing pictures, so hopefully this new one will work better......

Nope - that didn't work, so I'll have to work on that.

Had a lovely day with Daniel and Catherine and the babies.  Fancy having two grandaughters.  They are very sweet.  Beatrice is so tiny!

I'll get back to working on the photos after painting this morning.

Christmas has been and gone, and so has New Year.  We managed to get a sail in on New Year's day.  Went to Yarmouth, motored down there, but managed to sail back.  Yarmouth was full of the grandparents entertaining the grandchildren, while the parents slept off their hangover somewhere.  So not a lot had happened in the last fortnight.  I had really better get on and concentrate on my painting this year - but I always seem to say that.

I did actually take two photos, one of leaving Cowes (which didn't turn out) and one of leaving Yarmouth.  And this is it.  Looks quite lovely doesn't it.

We did have an afternoon out in Sandown, but the weather was overcast and it made everything look very dull and dreary - not a good advert for Sandown.

Well the most exciting event this week has been the birth of our second grandaughter, Beatrice Elizabeth. How lovely is that.

Painting - well I managed to mess up a watercolour I was doing, so have reprepared the background.  Hopefully at art this morning, I should be able to progress on that.

Christmas almost upon us, and tomorrow I will go off to Cowes to get that bird!

Not a huge amount happening.  I did another oil painting, which I didn't post last week as I wanted comments from the girls at the RVYC.  Well after speaking to them, it was suggested that I up the autumn colour a bit, so here it is...

Hope anyone looking at this, likes it.   I prefer it to the other autumn one I painted, but everyone else prefers the previous one!  No pleasing is there!

We were supposed to sail to Gosport this weekend, but due to the unsettled weather, the event has been cancelled.  Looks as though we will have to make our own entertainment then....

This weekend we went to Witney to see Daniel, Catherine and Alice.  I didn't go to art on Friday so missed the oil painting workshop, which I will have to catch up on this weekend.  It was a lovely weekend, although the weather was pretty awful and the traffic equally bad!  However, Alice is so cute and really growing quickly.  Catherine and Daniel were equally well.  Lots of events were packed into the weekend but I must confess to seeing Father Christmas (the real one!)

Well there you go old chap!  Make sure you bring the right stuff down the chimney....

We stayed in a lovely B & B - Gorselands Hall. 
Back here, and it's back to normal.  Perry is still working on installing the fridge in the boat - almost there.

Well again a rather uneventful week.  I finished the oil painting, but was very disappointed with it.  It just didn't turn out how I expected it to.

Very rough and ready.  However, I  have started another one, allbeit a little smaller, and when I go to our next workshop session hopefully I may achieve what I wanted.  Still the workshop is not over, so I have a bit of time on my side.

Perry is still working on putting the fridge in the boat, and reports look as though he may now be half way through the work.  Fingers crossed.

Definitely not a lot happening this week.  The oil painting workshop was not quite what I thought it was going to be, far more "expressive" than I normally paint.  Had a couple of days trying to get the first part of the painting sorted.  Not sure if I like it or not yet, still hopefully will get some sound advice on what to do next to it, when I attend the workshop on Friday.

Perry will be back from France tomorrow.  Bertie has been really fed up with just me.