Wet.

It's been a day of heavy showers interspersed with moments of bright sun. The kind of weather that brought a view of intense colours that changed each time I looked out of the windows.

I may have been a bit too enthusiastic last night in Pilates as my back is twinging again today. Or it may have been the weeding, or even the long walk after. But here is a link to a post written by my Pilates teacher on the health benefits of exercise as you get older. So I shall keep on with the exercise and anything else that helps keep my mind and body in the best condition. 

As I stood out on the terrace with my coffee (the chairs were too wet to sit on and I couldn't be bothered to fetch out a chair.) there was a commotion on the water. A cormorant had surfaced directly underneath a gull that had been resting on the surface of the water. The gull went off in a flurry and so too did the cormorant.

It has been too wet for any outside work but I did take some cuttings from a pretty red rockery dianthus that is doing well. It's probably not the right time but I had a bit of space for cuttings so why not?

Some of my day has been spent messing about making a felted bauble. The design of two seagulls was inspired by the colours of the materials I already have but overall I'm not that impressed. It was more of an experiment to try felting a polystyrene ball in the washing machine and then adding a design.

Off later on to choir.