Rainy days are for painting.

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One of the days we spent on tour it was raining (heavy) and we all decided to stay indoors and paint. My photo today is a few views of the painting I created. I used this handmade sketchbook which I made a few years ago. I have prepared each page with an acrylic colour wash. I always take the sketchbook on holiday and try to use it at least once.


I'm going to upload some more versions of the painting on Flickr later - check it out. Here is a link https://www.flickr.com/photos/gillmi/sets

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Grand Tour Archive

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Ive abandoned the numbered daily archive reference - not sure what we did when or what uploaded at this stage ? The reporting of our Grand Tour has been a disaster but I'm OK with the stories - so we will go with that.

Today's photo story is a lovely walk we did up and around Ennerdale Water. The walk took about 3-4 hours but we stopped a couple of times for a pack lunch and a snack break. The weather was great too, a few clouds but very warm.



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Grand Tour Day 7 - Workington

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Back to the archive on The Grand Tour :
On Day 7 we planned a cinema visit - How to train your Dragon 2. The cinema was in Workington - about 40 mins away. We also took in a food shop and were stocked for quite a while.
The film was great - bit of a 'tear jerker' ! We were in a cinema full of little kids - great fun and laughter throughout.
The cinema was part of an out of town complex so not very interesting - the complex was quite new but lots of empty shops - bit sad. Workington is better than I remember from a previous visit but we didn't have time to look around - maybe later in The Tour.

Here's a bit about the film instead.



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Better late than never !

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We are breaking our Grand Tour again for a week or so and then its on to Scotland for our final week. We are back at home now and technology is working well. The internet connection throughout the last two weeks has been useless. I'd uploaded the phone version of my blog app to cover all angles but alas no phone signal either so that was that !
However, I will publish a little gem from The Tour each day until we are up to date.
So, going back to Day 8 of The Tour (I think ?) - this is a trip to Stott Park Bobbin Mill. This was a fantastic visit to a museum showing how wooden bobbins were made.














I know this is more than my one photo per day but all the views are needed to get the flavour of the place.

I (of course) couldn't resist buying a couple of the bobbins we saw being made and will decorate them after the holidays.



The bobbin on the right is from another place - there's another story there ! I will get to that later in the week.

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Brief Tour Break !

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We have suspended The Tour for 24 hours - to pick up our son from his own Grand Tour across Europe. We will be returning to our own tour ASAP.
Until then it's a bit of extra packing,washing and off we go again.
I've just inspected the tomato bush and I see lots of potential toms and a few cucumbers. I'm making this my photo for today.



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