The studio cupboards are sorted, boxes from Botswana unpacked, with new piles of things to be discarded. The quilts made by Botswana crafts, surprisingly, perfect on the beds in the cottage. The easel is assembled, the studio sorted, and a new canvas is sitting waiting for paint to be smeared about.

A painting of the Pincushion Protea in the garden, with its massive multi-headed blooms, in oranges and yellows. A hint of magenta sage, blue white Shasta daisies and purple agapanthus. I may need a bigger canvas!