Warm.

It took a while for the sun to emerge from behind the clouds and warm things up this morning. With virtually no wind it has been warm and even hot during the sunny spells. As I sat outside it was all very quiet out on the water and the only moving thing was a single cormorant diving for fish. All the holiday makers must have had a late night.

Since yesterday had turned out not to be as restful as I had hoped and as today's walk was an hour's drive away and I've done that walk twice already I decided to have another restful day at home.

For me restful means working my way quietly through housework, gardening and getting on with projects without having to rush. And that's just what I did. I began by weeding out every errant seedling in the back garden before getting out the hose and giving all the pots and raised beds in the back garden a thorough watering. I try not to do too much watering as I aim to grow plants that can look after themselves but since we have had no rain for weeks my plants did need watering. 

Indoors I did some of those extra cleaning jobs including washing all the floors. I really should do that more often rather than relying on Peter's daily going over with the dry mop. Eventually the jobs were done, also some work on my Balrog design and I thought it would be worth getting one of the sun loungers out of the garage for a lazy end of afternoon in the sun. But that was a mistake, I settled down, the clouds rolled in and within five minutes I had to swap my sun hat for a fleece. I lasted half an hour before heading back inside.