Grey.

We had a grey start to the day followed by a wet morning and a dry afternoon.

In the morning I stewed some cooking apples that I'd brought home from choir last night (it's that time of year and the apple crop is good this year). 

Then it was back to my cushion project. No sewing today but I cut out all the pieces I need for the next three cushion covers. Two of them are for box type cushions and I now know that it is easier to cut out each piece and stitch the seams rather than try and fold them round origami style.

While the afternoon looked grey and miserable through the windows once I'd wrapped up and ventured into the garden it didn't seem so bad after all. I cut back most of the crocosmia and picked up all the leaves and stray stalks from the shingle before my back told me I'd done enough.

I'll be off to disco aerobics in a while. Since Rachel has hired UV disco lights I'm wearing black leggings and work-out top with a random white pattern all over which I don't normally wear together. (Too crazy.) She's also bought lots of glow sticks (the sort that clip together) and was encouraging us to come in costume. Some people did last year. 

There are lots of holidaying families in the village so I expect there will be a number of drop-ins as well as the usual regulars. It's just fun exercise and as Rachel is forever telling us it doesn't matter what you do as long as you do something.