Ace cafe reunion
Bikes here, bikes there, bikes blooming everywhere!

Bikes here, bikes there, bikes blooming everywhere!

The red lights are on, the sky is clear and the moon is conspicuously absent. Perfect stargazing conditions at the Herstmonceux astronomy festival this weekend.
Time to sketch Dome A at twilight, before admiring a staggeringly clear Milky Way, Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s Galilean moons.
I had to eat a Mars bar to come back down to Earth!
So cool!
That’s what you’d need to hold the Furgo Jack Up Barge, Excalibur aloft. Currently waiting for Arthur in Newhaven, East Sussex.
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
Oh do be quiet Emily Dickinson we are trying to watch the massive cygnets.
…A brand new jersey, according to Perry Como, but that is a very different story, in a galaxy far far away from Bexhill on Sea.
…for a book on the beach…
…for coffee and a crossword.
Coats. Boots. Balaclava. Brrr!
Three weeks older, white tipped wings stronger every day, the Queens Park cygnets may soon be on their way.
Sometimes it’s tricky to know when to stop working on a painting. In this one, less may have been more.
Second time around, maybe it was about right.
Sunlight between showers.