Yup cheers EG will do I,ll try and bring as much as I can weight allowed that is ,, my missus has allready booked most of my suitcase for sweet tins for the family lol .

I have loads of clothes in Thailand allready ,, just hope I can still get into them nearly 2 years down the line ( leave it Dill )

Yes you are correct about the medium changing business , when I first started painting it was oils 100% for around 25 years never touched anything else , then I tried watercolour doing things the way I found out in the library books I used to teach myself , and to be fair I was getting some cracking results , now I have moved away from them over the last couple of years into pastels and back into oils and TBH , I have got lazy and bloody complacent , and as you well know that will just not do in watercolour.

It sure is a testing medium , BUT , I wont let it beat me , I will come back with some better ones