Wet.

There were a couple of sunny spells first thing in the morning but for most of the day it has been raining. I busied myself with indoor jobs including  trying to deal with that pile of papers that lives on the kitchen table. I didn't quite manage to clear everything but it's been reduced to a few items which is a good start. As it's Peter's birthday tomorrow I made a batch of special flapjacks with sunflower seeds, mixed fruit and a chopped up bar of 70% dark chocolate. Naturally I had a taste when I cut it up into squares and it's not bad, if I say so myself.

With virtually no dry spells my only outside work was a bit of tidying up in the scree garden outbuilding and driving the rubbish up to the road. I stopped for a while to listen to a skylark which was singing away even in the rain. It had a main theme but every now and then it would throw in a bar of a new tune, repeat it a few times and then try something else.

One job that I had been putting off for a rainy day was to make some pj shorts out of 2 pairs of long pj's that I had bought for that purpose. It took me all afternoon to cut, pin, iron, try on and then re-pin until I was satisfied that they were the correct length and the same on both legs. That was a bit of a challenge for me as I'm not naturally good at things like sewing. Then I looked in 3 rooms before I found where I had moved my sewing machine to from its long time home in a kitchen cupboard. Sewing took minutes but I've left the machine on the kitchen table in case I think of something else I want to sew before I lug the heavy machine back upstairs.