Windy.

It was a bit on the gloomy side this morning with a few spots of rain making polka dots on the paving but brightened up as the day went on. The wind on the other hand increased through the day and my washing out on the line dried quickly.

I carried on working on the raised beds, stacking blocks against the terrace footings and filling in the gaps with subsoil from the spoil heap. Peter worked in the garage first and then came out and shifted all the paving slabs that had been stacked against the blocks. He also moved a whole load of broken slabs into the side bed. The builder turned up at mid-day and used some sand he had on his truck to fill in the ditch in front of the side bed so that we don't trip into it. 

I did as much as I could, had a break to pedal on the exercise bike and then relax on the terrace before bringing some of the rubble in the back garden round to dump in the raised bed.

Yesterday, just after the sun had gone down and it was dark I spotted some red lights shining in the distance. A closer look with the binoculars showed that it was a large fire on the Llyn Peninsula which is 30 miles across the sea from us. A friend who lives further up the coast posted a photo and in the comments other people reported seeing the lights of emergency vehicles and enormous flames but I haven't been able to find anything about it on-line. Maybe that's because at the same time and running into today there was a major forest fire inland. 

A poor photo taken in the dark with automatic exposure because I forgot how to get to the night time setting.