gothic it's not

Very cloudy flat day for taking photos. American Bill inspired me after we chatted in Lisa's shop. His advise>go gothic with black and white in such conditions.
This is actually a fibreglass resin mermaid, but it's done so well that a good tapping is required as proof that it's not solid stone. She sits down on the foreshore by the sailing school and is quite colourful, not at all scary.
Day spent mostly pottering doing all the jobs that didn't happen at the weekend, now packing for my weekly trip to Cork,there's the usual dragging of feet as I never want to leave.