Cold.

It's been a cold and windy day with some bright sunshine and despite the appearance of a rainbow, no showers.

As I stood leaning on the terrace balustrade with my coffee the thought crossed my mind that it was too wet to walk down in my slippers to put seeds out for the birds. But then I noticed movement in the hedge and realised that some dunnocks were waiting for those seeds. Which of course I went and got for them.

Even though the shape of the land remains the same the way it looks is constantly changing as the sun shines down between the clouds and the clouds themselves hug the peaks or make abstract patterns in the sky. 

With nothing scheduled away from home today I've been able to get some things done indoors. First we or rather Pete fixed some screws into the hall wall so that I could hang the two photos. My only contribution was to mark the holes and one of those was out by half a cm which called for an awkward adjustment.

The next task was to put the new wheeled case away in the loft and bring down the box for the digital piano. Except that I don't have the box any more so I'll just have to wrap the piano instead. While I was in the loft (and wearing latex gloves) I laid flat some of the extra insulation which had been pushed into untidy heaps when an electrician had been up there. There were also a few bags of stuff pushed to the back on top of the insulation. These I carefully fished out as there is no boarding in that part of the loft. I was even able to bring down quite a few things to take to the charity shops. No need to hang onto things now that we know exactly what fits in this house.

Then I attempted to change the door handles on my study door. We kept the door handles that were here as they are the horizontal bar type ones which are easy to open especially for arthritic hands but I also have a spare pair of glass knob handles. These I took from Dingles (before we put it up for sale) since I liked them so much. Unfortunately they need a shorter spindle bar which I've already ordered. I don't care if my door handles don't match the others in the house. 

My final job was to clear my desk, put away most of the Welsh grammar prompt cards I made and wipe everything down. It's looks so nice and fresh now without the clutter though I have found space for some photos of the bright blue Cretan sea.