First full day. After a lovely breakfast (not often I get to have a full English), we all set off for Goathland. A lovely Yorkshire village and apparently the setting for something called Heartbeat (??). John came with us although he’s come along as a non-painting partner (or ‘camp follower’ as he puts it, Maria says he should be providing a lot more ‘comforts’ in that case, no idea what she means), he rather fancied seeing the steam train passing through and apparently there are some lovely walks around.
While we settled down to watch Jenny and David do some demonstration sketches and and then do some of our own, John set off for a walk.
The day was rather chilly so after a while we retired to the tea shop for hot chocolate with cream and scones.
John returned about 2.30 covered in mud (Maria claims up to his armpits but really only up to his knees) and a big grin on his face. Apparently little boys never grow up. He did get some great photos though (particularly of a waterfall).
Mind you David did an excellent sketch of the same waterfall. Perhaps I do still have a lot to learn about sketching.
