I’m catching up with my posts! Last Friday I visited Pewley Down Infant School in the morning and Holy Trinity Junior School in the afternoon.

I had a wonderful time at both schools. Each was buzzing with excitement and activity, with lots going on for Book week. Geraldine, their Librarian, helped me find an art shop to buy some paper so I could finish some artwork over the weekend. Many thanks – It all got in the post on Monday! While in town, I noticed that the statue of the Surrey Scholar had a cigarette butt stuck in his mouth – not a good example – Im sure!

I saw a lovely old sign painted on a shop wall in town. I don’t suppose you gat palnning permission to do it these days, but I think it adds something to the environment. Old and faded lettering does something to me. To me it represents what the Japanese call Wabi-sabi. We don’t really have a word for it or a concept either, I don’t think. It’s a sort f beauty in imperfection.

The trip gave me the opportunity to stay the night at my wife’s delightfully eccentric Uncle Roger’s house. Being and engineer, he likes to do things his way. The unintuitive toilet handle in the photograph is only one of many examples of what we like to call pottyness. His house is covered in interesting notes explaining how things work – usually differently to the way they work everywhere else!