Wet.

It's been raining all day long which put paid to my plan to finish the mowing. Instead I have been on a cleaning spree. First I hoovered the whole house and then after Peter left for his jaunt up country I blitzed our bedroom. Everything that could be washed or wiped has been including the collection of wooden toadstools from which hang all my earrings. 

The rain eased up a bit in the afternoon so I put on a raincoat and used up all 3 bottles of weedkiller on the joins between the paving slabs around the scree garden. Even if I hadn't run out of weedkiller it's quite hard on my back so I was glad to stop.  I managed to get half of the paving done today which is a good start. 

Back indoors I cleaned out the cutlery drawer which as it is under the main work area seems to accumulate a lot of crumbs not to mention the puddle of grease where Peter had put his basting brush back without cleaning it. I also threw out some of the cutlery that had wobbly handles and never get used. Then I gave the fridge a good clean too. 

Peter has just phoned to say he still has 20 minutes before he reaches his B&B for the night. The A303 was one long traffic jam and what should have been a 4 hour drive will have taken 6 hours. Needless to say he will be finding a different route home tomorrow afternoon.