Half way through the month and I’m only just getting around to an update: shows how busy I am with real world work…well, that and getting Norchester published.

And there’s only about six weeks to go before the end of this year’s Challenge: so those of you sitting on vast numbers of entries need to get them to me before December 31 to make sure your scores are recorded. We have 24 people who’ve sent in entries this year: two newbies and then fourteen under their last year score and only eight over their last year score.

But there’s still plenty of time for the fourteen to make up the difference: so here are this week’s entries to encourage you to pick up a brush and start painting.