Wild.

It's been a day of wild seas. Dry in the morning with a little sun and then much wetter in the afternoon.

In the morning I took down all the books from the alcove bookshelf in the hall, washed the shelves and cleaned one shelf's worth of books. I'm now thinking they might be so dusty from the last year on the shelves in the living room at Dingle's where we had a woodburner. More children's books again, some from my childhood and others that had been the boys' which I kept to take with me when I did supply teaching. I'd hung onto these books for any visiting children. Some I was able to put in the pile for the charity shop but others though great favourites are too tatty to give away.

I did a little work on the sequinned top before it was time to go to town for my dentist's appointment. I was there for over an hour and apart from some discomfort from the lip guard the most painful part was the bill. £1,500 to build up six lower teeth. Looking at the 'before' photo there was no doubt that they needed doing as they were all eroded and chipped but that's an awful lot of money. I'll wait until the next check-up to do the top teeth. 

While I was in town I dropped some stuff off at the charity shop and also went into little Charlie's (big Charlie's is in the retail park by Morrison's). That was to exchange something Peter had got for me on Saturday when he went into town. It was my own mistake as I'd asked him to get me some new kneelers meaning builders' knee pads but he brought home a foam garden kneeler. There was no problem in doing the swap but the lady didn't swipe the electronic security tag. That set off the alarm as I came out of Tesco's where one of the staff just waved me through and then again in Matalan. By that time I had worked out the problem and showed the knee pads and the minimal contents of my bag to one of the store staff.

 

As I was driving home along the back road I spotted a telegraph pole swaying noticeably which had me drive past as quickly as possible. This was one of the poles that has been leaning towards the road ever since Storm Darragh. I wonder how long it will last now?