Wednesdays and weekends

Now that I'm working just 4 days a week, I try to keep the non-working day as "studio day" -- mainly, no computer. This is difficult! And since last week I've not only not posted anything here, but haven't downloaded any photos, so there are lots to choose from and too many possibilities for what to blog about....

It was Bank Holiday Weekend here in UK. We had a delightful Saturday on the boat (on the Oxford Canal) - it was the first sunny day for grizzled Londoners, though apparently the sun had been shining on the Oxford Canal all week.


Sunday, to take advantage of the continued sunshine, we headed for Wimpole Hall, near Cambridge, taking the back roads through untrammelled countryside and delightful villages. Click, click, went my camera, as Tony obligingly slowed at obviously scenic spots.




Wimpole Hall has a wonderful walled garden complete with cordon-trained apples and pears


And the staff had been having a good time making scarecrows - there were at least a dozen individuals in the walled garden, including this humpty dumpty -


And who can resist koi, and water lilies? They were in the very centre of the garden -