Wet.

The rain arrived in the middle of the day while the wind has been blowing all day long sending great breakers racing across the bay.

I took myself back into town where the streets were fairly deserted. Paid my bills at the bank and did a little shopping at Lidl's. I'd planned to buy some sauerkraut to cook with the remaining Polish sausage which eaten with boiled potatoes is a typical Lithuanian meal. I couldn't see any and when I asked a member of staff she didn't even know what sauerkraut was. Luckily the cashier knew and said they only had it when there were special promotions. I know they have it in Morrisons though I'm not planning on going back to town for a while.

With Peter ordering the materials he needs to rebuild the collapsed fence (below) I thought I might as well buy the trellis too. I don't have any grand scheme for the back garden but there's such a mish-mash of walls and fences I plan to line the whole thing with curved top trellis. I'd found a trellis I liked but it comes from abroad and is 183cms wide instead of the standard 180 cms and to top it all you can't order it at the moment. Looking around I found a similar trellis which I could buy through Screwfix (a large building supplies company). Better than that if I bought a 3 pack the price dropped to £53. Checking the Screwfix site I found you could buy the panels in 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 packs. Hoping that would reduce the price even further I began jotting down numbers and doing a little calculating. I couldn't believe my answers and even though I'm confident in my maths I used a calculator on the pc to check but for 6-10 packs the price worked out at £70 per panel while for the 4 and 5 packs it was £55 and for a 3 pack it was £53. How does that work? Maybe they're the more popular  packs. I happily checked my measurements and decided that I could do with 18 panels. Before ordering I double checked all the prices, correct, and finally had a look at the reviews. Only two reviews one of which was a positive comment about being able to buy a pack of 3 and one really bad review. Some of the panels had arrived damaged and the rest were of such poor quality they could be pushed apart with a finger. The reviewer sent all of his panels back and said 'Don't buy.' Not surprisingly I didn't go ahead and order. It's such a shame there isn't anywhere I can actually go and look some trellis.

The collapsing fence (below) being held up by bits of wood.

In town I had to go to Poundland to get some more fat balls for the birds and at the same time I bought some cat toys for Speedy. They're fabric balls with a bunch of chicken feathers sticking out and Speedy absolutely loves them. 

Now you see him .......... now you don't.