Calm.

This morning's weather could not have been more different to yesterday's. There was just the slightest of breezes to nudge the wind chimes and the sky was a gentle grey. Later the sun came out for a while.

With the whole day at home I've managed to  get lots done. 3 more coats of varnish on the bedroom step and its scruffy broken state is a mere memory. Then I painted the parts of the walls in that bedroom that needed doing. I wasn't sure I had the right paint because unlike the rest of the coloured paint I've got I hadn't written on the lid which room 's colour it was. I think it's dried to the same colour. If not there is enough to paint over everything. Once the painting was done I cobbled together some odd bits of mdf and hardboard and made a neat box to go over the exposed sink pipes in another of the spare bedrooms. Then at last I was able to escape outdoors for some gardening. I dug up the roots of every buttercup and dock plant under the apple trees. It wasn't a moment too soon as I found one buttercup and some popweed already flowering. Then I settled down at the end of the slope where I intend to put in some grasses and flowering plants and dug up 2 bucketfuls of grass and stinging nettle roots. I had just decided that I should stop when the rain started. Perfect timing. To finish off my day I painted a first coat on the boxing before ironing a sheet that had been drying over the rayburn. 

Hen pheasant feather.