Wet.

It's been a day of moderate rain apart from a short sunny spell in the afternoon. We've been sheltered from the south easterly winds of the latest storm to hit the country but the strength of the wind was evident by the way the morning's rollers were blown flat as the wind blew across them. By afternoon the sea close to shore was completely flat.

Due to the prospect of day-long rain the walk was moved to yesterday but as I was already well into cleaning the books by the time I received the message I opted to continue doing that. So for once I had the whole of Sunday at home. In the morning I carried on cleaning the books and putting them back on the shelves. A very small pile has been set aside to go to the charity shop and I'm determined to re-read more of my favourites some of which go back to my childhood.

Once the bookcase was returned to rights I began work on altering the silver sequinned skirt. Bearing in mind the cost of the skirt I'm determined not to mess this project up. A lot of my time was spent making paper patterns based on one of the tops I altered earlier. I carefully unpicked the zip and then it was out with the scissors. Not to actually cut out the shape of the top but just to take off the top part of the skirt leaving plenty of spare to work with. I have marked out the shape of the back piece with white stitching as nothing else would show up on the black net backing but now I have another problem to solve in that the skirt is wider than the pattern pieces. If I trim down the sides I'll lose the neatly bound existing side seams. Instead I think I'll gather at the centre of the neckline which would make for even more movement of the fabulous sequin work. I'll try first to fold and pin without any cutting just to get some idea of how it will look.

We had a film night this evening and watched The Fellowship Of The Ring. The extended version of course which runs for nearly three and a half hours. I was very restrained and didn't join in with the dialogue which I know would be annoying for Peter. I used to do that when I watched with Romas and he knew a lot more dialogue than I did. (That gives an idea of how often we would watch the films.)