No wind, no rain and a calm sea today.
It was already light by the time I had my first cuppa sitting on the terrace. The recent heavy rains have given the ground a thorough soaking forcing the worms up to the surface. Out on the cliff there was a steady stream of birds; oystercatchers, rooks and seagulls, searching for the worms.
I've been busy all day long working my way through my to-do list. Plus a few extras.
Yesterday afternoon Pete went to a Christmas gathering of the RNLI shop volunteers and somehow came home with among other things a whole load of ripe bananas. I made banana ice-cream with most of them which might provide Sally with a lactose-free alternative to cream and with the rest I made two banana loaves. They nearly weren't banana loaves. I'd put the cakes in the oven, set the timer then turned to see the mashed bananas still sitting in a bowl on the counter. Thank goodness I noticed.
Another baking task, which was on my list, was to make the meringue case for a pavlova. That's still drying in the cooling oven.
Pete had offered to pick up the chicken from the butchers' tomorrow but as I added more and more items to the shopping list I thought I'd better do the shopping myself.
Other things done today were finishing packing the hampers, a bit of mending, washing the floors, and clearing my study so that all I need to do tomorrow is set up the trundle bed.
This evening's sunset kept getting prettier and prettier until the light got too low for photos.
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