I will really be happy when the weather improves and I can get outside to sketch perhaps produce another book? Looking back through the numerous sketch books I have filled over the years brings me much pleasure and rekindles lots of good memories. One such was remembered as I flicked through the sketches I made whilst on holiday in Cornwall with my American Artist friend, Marilyn Swift almost twenty years ago. We were in Mousehole, a place I had never visited previously. I was smitten by the place as soon as I stepped out onto the harbour wall. It was from there that I decided to record my first impressions of the wonderful fishing village and I set to work. It as a beautiful day and busy! Before long I became the object of scrutiny by a little boy, probably no more than 7yrs old, who was propelling himself back and forth on the harbour wall on a scooter. Each time he arrived where I was working, he would stop, ask to see what I had drawn, then scoot away. Several times he did this and he saw the finished picture. At lunch time, we were eating in the nearby pub when I was approached by a young lady who told me that she was the scooter boys’ mum. He’d evidently been giving his mum and dad a progress report on what I was doing and she politely asked if she could see the sketch too. I was more than happy to oblige because liked it. Indeed I liked it so much it was the sketch chosen to adorn the cover of the book I published a couple of years ago. I think the little boys’ name was Sam. I wonder what he’s doing now?