Canal du Midi at Toulouse France Women's T-Shirt

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The beautiful plane tree lined Canal du Midi at Toulouse in the south of France. This is a view in Spring 2013 just before it was announced that 42,000 plane trees would be felled due to disease.

Pencil, ink and watercolour painting by Dai Wynn on 300gsm heavy rough textured Arches french cotton paper. 21cm high X 30cm wide (8.25 inches high X 11.75 inches wide) approximately.

Some of my friends wonder why I have changed my name from David to Dai. The short answer is that I haven’t. My parents, sisters and immediate family always used Dai (but pronounced “day”) as a short form of David — a nickname if you like. However, it appears that the Welsh adopted the name "Dai” (pronounced “die”) as a short form of Dafydd (pronounced “Dahveth”) the patron saint of Wales and also known as St David just across Offa’s Dyke. Why Wales? Well the name “Wynn” means fair-skinned or white in the Welsh language and my ancestors were certainly from around those parts (others were from Ireland and Cornwall, but paid full fare to sail to Australia. None was transported in chains I might add). Dafydd, being the Welsh version of...