I love these old gravestones in the grounds of the local priory. The weather coming straight off the north sea sandblasts them. Slightly macabre, but I can be sighted feeling the texture of them.

The hike from Boot to Birkenthwaite. Lake district 2011.

The always deeply sinister Mr Punch giving Judy a hard time, as usual.

Lunchtime sketch. Volcanic pebble texture. Moleskine watercolour sketchbook, ballpoint pen, graphite and cold tea staining.

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Finished sketchbook doodle. Ballpoint pen and cold tea. The Flute-nosed Thermometer fish

The Flute-Nosed Thermometer Fish. A tenacious and unruly beast of aquatic nature. So called because of its curious snout and its ghastly propensity to surprise a gentleman waist deep in water by trying to take his temperature not unlike a veterinarian surgeon takes the temperature of an unwell dog.