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Actually in Devon

We are only 7, so lots of space and we started with charcoal dust. The subject is mountainous terrain. Jenny and Sabine came for supper in my flat.  Day 2 and more experimenting. Then a trip to Lympstone. Another of those villages on the water with tiny lanes. No parking and the car constantly beeping because the hedges are too close. Old fishermen"s cottages all done up but it all felt like a prison and I needed to escape. So found another lane and took a quick snap of the estuary. It looked rather like our paintings today. Then this imposing front entrance. Day 3 Using bright paper was a revelation. The Otter . Yesterday the verges were full of rape today all gone. ...
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Off to Devon for a weeks painting.

Tom posted this of him and Effie at Witney Fun Fair. Meanwhile I heard that Rob won the Guernsey Ultra and Bulgaria won Eurovision.
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9th -13th

Catastrophic collapse of Labour in the elections yesterday. David Attenborough's 100th birthday. Today is sunny and warm and the bowling machine is up and running. And a picture from Uzbekistan. A hard place to live and work. I wanted the woman to sort of merge into the desert. I spotted her from the bus returning home I guess to the bright-walled house which was all alone in the Kyzylkum Desert. And some people on a cruise ship got hantavirus somewhere. Apparently not spread like Covid. We shall see in due course. And here is a pic of the grey wagtail chicks. Cant see much but their little red gapes awaiting food from their mum. There are five so lots of flies needed. And still on the bird theme here is the great white egret. Very shy so pic taken from inside. Back with the nest. Effie with Heidi and a friend, Evie. This looks like the old days though upgraded with a bowling machine. ...
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