30.10.07. It has been a busy week. I have done the usual housekeeping things, filled the fridge, bank, charged the flat battery of the scooter etc and have started working in my new studio. I’m not quite comfortable there yet but I keep moving things around so eventually I’ll find the best way of working. I have started two paintings of Georgian Bay based on colour sketches that I did there this summer and above is one of the finished pieces. I went on a hike on Sunday with my friend Claire from Montpellier. We hiked along the bank of the Buèges river from St Jean de Buèges. It was a warm, sunny day and for most of the walk the river was dry. En route back to Clermont we stopped at le pont de St Etienne d’Issenssac on the Herault to check out possibilities for my new series of paintings on the Herault.