Chilly.

Brighter than yesterday with the occasional shower and calm seas. Yesterday evening we had some hail and later there was a loud thunderclap. Naturally I rushed to look out over the bay but failed to see any lightning.

Straight after breakfast we went out and put up the last large trellis panel on the end of the garage. Then, because we'd inadvertently put up the last half panel the wrong way round (who knew that trellis has a right and a wrong side? It's all to do with the screws fixing the diagonal slats to each other.) we unscrewed it and put it up the right way. We finished just as some heavy rain arrived so I used the time to do my music and Welsh practice. Once it stopped raining I went back outside where I sacrificed the last half-panel to make a plain rectangular panel to fill in the gap under that last half panel. By the time I'd found battens to go across the bottom, cut the panel and nailed it all together the light was going and it wasn't worth taking a photo of today's work.

A pretty pink sunset tonight.

The local coastguard posted a photo of these tubers that had washed up on the beach at Tywyn, a town further along the coast (we can see its lights from here). Although they look like parsnips they are the roots of Hemlock Water Dropwort and are highly poisonous to humans and animals. In fact it is the most poisonous plant in Britain and causes death by asphixiation. Nasty.