Very Wet.

The day began hot and humid but later the first of many heavy showers arrived.

Even before the weather took a turn for the worse I'd already decided not to go on the walk this week. Instead I planned to get on with a couple of small outstanding DIY jobs. I don't know why but I don't feel like wielding tools when the builders are here. Or by the time I've realised they aren't coming I've made other plans. 

Photos from yesterday.

Back to today - my first job was to pre-drill some holes in a length of wood which is going to be a hook bar in the utility room for small items. I'd already gone over the knots with the varnish stuff and today I gave it a coat of undercoat in the morning and a coat of vinyl silk in the afternoon.

A much bigger job was to seal up the cracks around the sitting room and dining area windows. I'd been noticing dust and grit building up on the sills and at first blamed it on the not very good window fitters we had in the beginning. But then I realised those windows take the brunt of the storm winds and it was probably just natural movement which had caused the cracks that were letting in the grit. 

At first it sounds like a simple task to run some sealant around the windows but of course there was a lot more to it than that. All the collections of glass, ornaments, shells and stone needed taking down and washing. And of course the plants which left the venetian blind accessible for washing. Then the frames and sills needed washing after which I carried on to wipe down the skirting boards and anything else that was dusty and in reach. 

It was only considerably later that I was ready to wield the sealant gun and fill in those cracks. Being unskilled I've found the best way is to wear latex gloves and smooth the sealant down with my finger. Not a perfect finish but it will do and that's another job out of the way.

There are some lovely but expensive things in the Aberystwyth Museum shop and look at those wonderful stairs. (It used to be a cinema.)

Below- inside the bandstand at lunchtime.

Yesterday we had a different leader for our warm up. Neck exercises are a standard part of singing warm ups but we also had to turn our heads very slowly and take note of things around us. My mind immediately focussed on the amount of blue I could see. The room was full of chairs and 150 (or more) singers dressed in many shades of blue. Being a seaside location blue was also the accent colour in the room and I could see blue; chairs, curtains, pictures, signs and an accent wall. Once I looked through the open doors behind me there seemed to be blue everywhere as well. 

That inspired me to try and create a series of 'blue' pictures on my lunchtime walk around Aber some of which are in today's post.