It's October and the clocks are falling back this weekend, so Jack and I have been busy making Christmas Puddings! I love these old traditions and really enjoy passing them down a generation. The puddings have a much better flavour when they're made this early and allowed to mature for a few months before December. And we've even hidden in one of the three puddings, the two shilling piece I'd found earlier in the year in Chichester! I wonder who the lucky finder will be? 

Lets hope our watercolour painting wishes come true!

Ooh and don't forget to book your watercolour painting house or garden commissions now ready for Christmas.  Here's one I did earlier. It's a beautiful Art Nouveau (or Jugenstiel) style house in the Netherlands, near Gouda, complete with little stream in the foreground.