Sunday was cold but full of bright sun. I dug out my brushes, watercolours, acrylics, crayons, and a wee little canvas board. Some of the tubes of paint were rock hard.

I discovered that you can wash paint off canvas board almost completely without the board going soggy. And when your materials are over 7 years old it doesn’t feel like wasting when your sketch turns out badly. I repainted the one board over and over til afternoon. I stopped when I got turquoise paint on the knees of my jeans and it was time to take the dogs for a walk.

It was fun to play with colours on the floor, with Abbey snoring under the table.