Useful Kitchen Utensils.

And surprise! It's still grey and after an only slightly damp morning it's now raining heavily.

It looked like the worst of the rain wasn't arriving until the afternoon so I drove down to the zoo to see how much I could get done. 

Having brought a table knife with me this week (only used for gardening) after not having it with me last week my first job was to prise out all the dandelions growing in the joints between sections of the concrete paths. The knife also proved useful for turning over the ground in the safety zones next to the unused enclosures which once again were being invaded by the dreaded bindweed. 

And then although I'm ignoring the weeds growing in the large play area where the climbing structure is almost totally dismantled I'm still doing my best to keep the smaller play area looking tidy. That's where an old table fork came in very handy for loosening up the grass and clover that were invading the woodchip.

(Oh dear, the rain is pounding heavily on the roof of my study and Pete walked down to meet Dave in the pub again. The last time they met to talk about rowing club business there was a (lifeboat) shout with pagers going off all over the pub. Dave as RNLI manager had to hotfoot it to the lifeboat station to supervise the boat going out. The shout was for somebody whose dog had run off under the cliffs just as it was getting dark. The dog's owner would have been in danger of slipping or being cut off by the tide so was escorted back to Clarach. The dog was eventually found on the beach at Wallog which is some distance away.)

Meanwhile at the zoo I did various bits of weeding around the place and decided to call it a day after nearly four hours. By the time I had driven home the rain had set in so it was a good thing I stopped when I did.

I haven't done much this afternoon except for some crocheting as I've still got Pilates to go to.