This morning I did some washing and pottered about before calling in at the studio and then doing some shopping. Then I made my way to the Palm Court Hotel where Gail had arranged a little celebration lunch for Tina. The hotel had many trees in front and I have never spotted it before.

The Grand Hotel along the way was looking grand today!

The lunch was really lovely and the hotel and service great, somewhere to go again. Reasonable prices too. A group of us had an enjoyable couple of hours.

Some of us had dessert, and tina was enjoying hers!

I called into the studio on the way home and ended up painting a pen pot for them to use in a window display. Walking home after that I passed this lovely flower bed in front of one of the hotels.

The weather has been lovely today, so I decided to make sandwiches and a flask and go down to the beach this evening. I paddled along at the waters edge again, it was fairly quiet. took this view whilst in the sea (only just, I know, but a start, maybe even swim in it eventually!)

I sat on some steps to have my sandwiches and looked out at this island on rocks in the sea.

I walked back through the park and these parent geese were looking over their goslings, made for a nice picture.