As you may be aware already, perhaps from my blog posts, “our men in orange” at Dawlish are not the Orangemen of Ulster but I’m sure they are just as exciting. Their work is so varied. Not only do they work on our sea wall repairs at nearly every low tide, more often at night (or so it seems because our bedroom is on the lower floor on the sea-side of our house) but also they bring in supplies and machinery by boat to the huge rig platform .

A couple of days ago, whilst I was painting a different coastline on a canvas, Chris, my husband and on the spot photographer, noticed some activity by men in orange on the water quite close to shore; he thought these shots might be of interest to my readers.