12.00pm, 22 1/2 hours left

Well, it's been one hour now, and, unsurprisingly there's not much to report.

Everyone is here, sitting at round their rather charming school art class style tables and concentrating reasonably hard.

Clockwise l-r: Marcel, Amy, Robert, Jenny, faye and Laura. All very busy.

Except for Josh Bone who has left for a short while to brave the streets of Falmouth and sketch actual real things. It's very exciting, in a quite, studiously relaxing kind of way.

Josh, sketching in a picturesque way

The main thing to report is that at 10am everyone was given a copy of our Falmouth and Penryn based story as a source of inspiration. We've called it a story but, more accurately it's a character: Dick Williams. Dick lived in Penryn and was also known as The Cornish Strongman. He would tour local fairs with four other men performing amazing feats of strength like bending iron bars and supporting the weight of a piano and two men on his chest, long enough for them to play a tune. When Dick wasn't showing off his strength to the public he'd use it during his day job at the docks. Apparently local residents would visit him when they broke their bones or had a bad back so that he could reset them. We've also heard his called a 'gentle giant' as when he retired he turned his hand to massage and had an amazingly soft touch.

Finally, In breaking news, Jack Teagle has very nearly finished his title page. I wonder if anyone will beat him to producing the first page?