Jo and Anne-Marie at Fowey

as we drive down the M5 Benedict calls Anne-Marie to see if we can meet up ... I first met AM and Jo when they were living in Edinburgh - Benedict was exhibiting some work in a gallery curated by Jo at the Out of the Blue nightclub ... in the old Edinburgh bus depot - Alistair Darling had an office in the same building ... that was in 2001 and since then they have moved to Shefield and now live in the shadow of Bodmin Moor

on the way we stop at the Jamaica Inn for the second blue jug event of the trip ... well, its really an egg-up event - as at Bourton we decant from the car with cameras, scope out the location and then "bosh bosh bosh" as Benedict would say we take the pictures ...

we take a meandering route and meet AM and Jo in Fowey ... we park in the car park by the river and like a genie emerging from a lamp, they come paddling into view ...

once the kayaks are out of the water, we make our way to the Fowey Hotel for a cream tea sat in the garden until the sun sets behind the houses and the side of the valley ... a small child takes a shine to us ... and it soon emerges that Anne-Marie is pregnant ...

we stay with Jo and Anne-Marie ... the trip back to their house takes us over Bodmin Moor, past ancient cross and engine house, ponies and sheep grazing the short green grass, through deep-cut roadways cloaked by lichen-shrouded trees to a simple cottage in a wooded valley ...

before we go to bed we go outside and stand under the starlit sky, a multitude of pasts all visible at once ... the stars are stunning, every time I see the milky way, the constellations, satellites, a shooting star I am almost overwhelmed ... it is awesome

next morning we have breakfast, ten a secong breakfast and then we say our goodbyes and on we go ... Trebetherick calls ...