Feeling a little bit clever ....

I've just had a very pleasant few days with my son, he really appreciates art and what it can offer so it was so nice to look at the various art galleries in Newcastle with him. We also went to Alnwick Castle - I've never been before and it was really very splendid and there was a falconry demonstration which was good... (read "H is for Hawk" by Helen McDonaldson - a really interesting read). We did the usual walks on the beach (in the rain) and wandered round the harbour at Amble but most importantly we did quite a bit on Photoshop and I feel a bit like I'm grasping some of the basic and I actually managed to get one of my drawings on a Dr Marten Boot - and more excitingly I know how I did it and could do it again!!! I used a template from the internet as I dont have access to a scanner at home at the moment so I couldn't use my own drawings and then overlaid the pattern....

and then I got fancy with the next one using the chains motif and putting colour on as well...

so YES I will master photoshop even though its likely I will turn my sons hair grey as well - bit of a reverse in roles!!!

If you were a fisherman you would definetely want these!!!!

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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