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A very keen sketcher, I have to be content to be an absentee member of the talented group of The Taranaki Sketchers, as I reside in the Bay of Plenty on the East coast of New Zealand.

Taranaki has no end of iconic subjects suitable for sketching which are nostalgic to me, as I spent many years there. So sadly, I miss out on regular sketch days.

However, I love to keep a sketch diary of overseas travels, rather than the written word, as every sketch has a time and place and brings back great memories. I love to travel, and tour by bike and kayak, or long distance walking, so each enables me time to sketch, and I am an avid follower of Urban Sketchers, as well as Virtual Paintout online.

Thanks to Scott who encourages and informs, I hope to keep up this long distance relationship with the group and find time to join them on occasion. (Just so long it is not motorcycles and tractors!).. but wait!... between the two of us here, we have five bikes in the garage - maybe I'll start practising. :)