As you say Caroline, same old same old.... but you have done so well, with produce from the garden, home baking and all those scrubs. Superb team effort.
Roobarb, I have no idea how you can get away with turning over art paper after you have put baby oil on it, but how fascinating!! I so envy you having some artistic talent. I can do rambling leaves with abstract flowers, but nothing which is supposed to look like a particular something!!
Yesterday woke up at 06:15. The wind was howling and trying to break our tomato plants, and the water was wild. I cut up a crust , added a handful of oats and nipped down to the pond in a light shower. The water birds were happy to see me, but I was horrified what a narrow escape the tiny ducklings had from being eaten by the adult swans who are so greedy. The trick appears to be throwing some to one side for the swans and cygnets, which are really big now, then quickly scattering to the other side for the little birds.
Husband awake when I returned, he is feeling down considering the global implications of this mess we are in, but we can only control our own actions, so I told him he should stop reading the news reports continually and reminded him of the Serenity, Courage and Wisdom mantra!
Had a video chat with some chums in Cumbria, then made a little progress with the biography sketch of my mother's life for the family history. Not easy to be truthful in a detached manner.
A fledgling sparrow flew into our balcony door with a worrying thump. It sat quivering and cheeping on the balcony, attended by both parent birds, until recovered sufficiently to flutter away.
During the afternoon loads of wanna-be surfers parking on the yellow lines to assess the waves. I wonder how far they have driven to get here and if they are staying all weekend.
Curry night for H, so I fall back on my favourite baked potato and tinned mackerel with salad, then put on lots of clothes for a walk along the sea front as still damp, grey and cold. Very blowy and salt spray everywhere. About 20 surfers and paddle boarders in the water, and a different cruise ship on the horizon, which seems to be the "Carnival Valor" sailing under a Panama flag.
Took some more oats for the ducklings, they really are way TOO cute. Another couple arrived with bread while we were there and the adult swan got out of the water to take it from them!
Sad that Springwatch has finished. Chris Packham seemed far more relaxed during this season than usual, I thought. Then Monty Don and a couple of hilarious episodes of The IT Crowd.
I do wish I had not taken the electric blanket off the bed in May!!
