This was meant to be a day of finishing boats. Unfortunately I forgot to allow any drying time: for wallpaper paste, glue or paint, and misjudged how long it would take to ‘quickly dead head the rose’ which has suffered in the recent rain and wind and is now more horizontal than vertical and blocking most of the pavement. So far passers-by seem to have forgiven it because it smells heavenly but as the aforementioned rain and wind now have blown away most of the petals, the same passers-by may not be so tolerant of its prickles. So instead of completed Boats 6-10 here are Boats 6-22, in varying stages of undress.

Jane