Home Again

We're home - and we got here in the nick of time!  One day later and we probably wouldn't have made it - snow drifts all over the country have brought traffic to a standstill and thousands of people have had journeys disrupted.

But we got home safe and sound, though each of us brought with us the cold and cough with which we had been burdened for our final days in Essex.  As I write this, I'm still suffering badly with mine, though my husband is on the mend.  Not that the colds have kept us indoors - the weather has seen to that!  

I've been using my time indoors to paint and going to finish this very short blog with a small version of my last Essex watercolour (last for now, anyhow).  Beeleigh Lock was very close to our accommodation, and I visited it almost every day.  For ten weeks it was in flood - I'm sure it is navigable by narrowboat in summer (when it would also be much greener) but this picture is my interpretation of how I saw it - in beautiful fury. 

(I'll put a bigger version of the picture on my "Fragile Brush" page).