And Breathe.

We've had a lovely weekend with our friends whom we've known since our eldest children were born. We used to live near each other in London but since moving to different parts of the country haven't met up so often especially since we moved to Wales.

Sam, Kate and younger daughter Alex arrived on Friday afternoon and we have spent the weekend chatting, eating, watching the sea,  going to the beach and yesterday we went for a walk at Ynyslas.

At the car park we got our residents' parking permit from a rather grumpy chap who asked if the paper Peter was showing him was for council tax and then grudgingly admitted that a water bill was also a valid proof of address.

From the Visitors' Centre, now manned by volunteers from Borth Community Hub we walked along the boardwalk through the dunes to the beach. There we sent Sam off to walk the four miles back along the beach to Borth (Kate has recently had a knee replacement) while the rest of us circled back to the car park and drove home to yet more tea and cake.

Considering how minimalist my cooking efforts are these days all my planning paid off and though I say it myself we ate well. Including lunches, cakes and puddings which we don't normally eat but were enjoyable though I don't think my waistline could survive such a regime for much longer.

Our friends left left this morning and while Peter hoovered and mopped I got the first two lots of washing done, dried and later ironed. Before tucking the trundle bed away I gave it a good clean as when putting it up I'd noticed that it was quite dusty but was too rushed to deal with it then. I also tightened up all the bolts with an allan key and now the bed no longer wobbles alarmingly. That led on to tightening up the bolts of our bed and wiping of the underframe. This cleaning lark never stops. 

Today's weather has swung between short spells of hot and humid and longer spells of cloudy with a cooler wind. In the afternoon I found a bit of time to do some gardening, mainly dead heading thrift. I think I'll use the seed heads to grow more plants in case the ravages/ toilet habits of the local cats cause the demise of the current plants.

Oystercatchers and a dragon.