Problems.

Lots of lovely sunshine today (never mind the cold wind).

I'm blogging straight after Welsh class as I had no end of trouble with the internet just before class. Literally just before. I'd been dutifully going through the resources in preparation for the lesson then when I tried to get to the Zoom link I got locked out and then the internet failed totally. Peter's connection was fine so I spent the first half of the lesson perched on a kitchen chair sharing his screen. He was able to get my internet working during the tea break but I don't trust it. Recently I've been having to log in to most of my regular sites even though I leave the tabs open when I close down. I thought this was payback for 'rejecting' all cookies and when I gave in and pressed the accept button I didn't seem to have to log in quite so often. Logging in often needs a verification code that has been sent to my email so it's a real faff.

But somebody is probably having a much worse day than I am. I was taking a break from putting in the screws on the wardrobe door when I saw smoke rising. At first I thought it might be a grass fire as they are not uncommon when people have fires on the sand dunes but looking through the camera I could see black smoke coming from Ynyslas, possibly the boatyard. The camera foreshortens distances but as a guide the houses at the bottom of the hill are five miles away on the other side of the estuary. I watched for a while and even though the fire was beyond a two storey house at times flames came into sight above the roof line. Half an hour later the smoke had died right down. I hope that nobody was hurt.

Out in the garden the salsify has produced these wonderful puffballs of seeds. No wonder it self seeds but as it's a biennial it should be easy enough to remove any seedlings next year.

The wardrobe door is now screwed firmly in place but I need to redo at least some of the screws in the door above. First though I shall try and work out how to tidy up the gaping hole along the end of the plasterboard.