I went to this little cafe in Didsbury Manchester the other day. I made a little fine liner sketch whilst I was waiting for my order. The cafe has been there for a long while I think, but I have only just found it now that my son and his wife and baby have moved near there. It has a great atmosphere and I love all the books and wood. You can sense all the conversations that have happened and feel all those going on around you. It is the first time I’ve wanted to draw over the Christmas period. I find it all such a strange holiday and feel almost in suspended animation with regard to my own work. That feeling is receding now, which I am grateful for! I have stretched up a little dyp-tych with canvas and now have the right dyes to begin. So onward and upward again!