What Happens When You go Away for 2 Weeks.....

You go off to Spain for a couple of weeks, spending much of your time open water swimming on the beautiful lake Negratin, and you come home.....

....to find your self buried under a mountain of beans.....

....and with a new addition to the family, Daisy.

We've been in Spain.

We saw some spectacular rocks.

We stayed at a nice campsite where we upset some Germans and made friends with some other Germans. We might have mentioned the war once, but we think we got away with it.

And we buried Arne.

One for Richard

Richard not only lends us his tools so we can continue the good work on the studio (so he can get out of doing the good work himself, yes, I know!) but also lent us his roof box so we could go on holiday. Also, I suspect, to get rid of us for a while so we wouldn't be hassling him about doing any more good work.

About to get very wet

A cold mountain lake at considerable altitude, and she's still warm and dry in this snap, at least for another tenth of a second. Go J9!

Flora and fauna

A few of Spain's plants and creatures were kind enough to keep still long enough for me to get a nice snap of them. The lizards were particularly difficult. You are never more than a meter from the nearest butterfly or grasshopper.

Up in the Picos

When we were in Spain we spent about two thirds of out time up in the mountains, the Picos De Europa and the Parque National De Somiedo in the Western Picos. If you've seen six spectacular sights before breakfast, there are probably a few more in store before lunch.

Drawing

Well, I appear to be back from a lovely holiday in Spain which would explain the long absence. I fully intended to announce my departure, but in the end failed to return to the computer before I left. Inspired by my pal Steve of Sketch of the Day fame, I took a pad and my colour pencils, and managed to get precisely one drawing done. This one. This was the view from outside our tent one morning when we were camping in the Picos De Europa. Or rather this is a drawing of it. Done rather quickly. And I couldn't find my knife to sharpen my pencils. Enough excuses. I'll post some photos soon too.