A beautiful birthday and evening yesterday, hot sunny weather and fortified by your messages.
Thank you all and every one.
For the evening I dined at the Sarah B, Roche-Bernard.
What a party that would have been if your could all have joined me!
Alone again, I took a sketch book for company, to work on ideas for a new painting of the BI ‘C’class cargo liner “Chupra“.
As it was I was still exceptionally fortunate.
Inadvertently dropping my pencil (literally, no double entendre this time…) lead to a long conversation with a most interesting fellow diner who has invited me to historic Anjou in the fabulous Loire Valley, offered to be my guide and a flight in a mircrolight.
The tale gets better, several of the staff remembered me.
I was treated most considerately including invitations to ‘off duty’ social events.
The extra unsolicited portion of cheesecake and nip of pear rum on the house, added to your good wishes ensured a sound sleep last night.