Wet.

It's been raining heavily all day long. The surfers have been out, it is the weekend, but the waves were not a patch on yesterday's clean sets.

My busy Friday and this rotten cold got to me this morning and I felt quite groggy when I woke. A lie-in with soothing cups of tea and coffee helped a lot and I've spent the day getting on with things but at a slower pace than usual.

I set myself three tasks to do to satisfy my need to feel that I achieve something every day. First I cooked up another batch of stewed apple. Some of the apples from the big bag I bought went to top up the fruit bowl and rest were for stewing and freezing. That works out better value than just buying six apples to eat in the week.

My next task was to see what I could do about changing the wardrobe curtain. The curtain that goes across what once used to be the shower matches the window curtains but apart from being too short (though I have more fabric to add on a bit if I want) I would prefer to have a plain curtain.

I had hoped to reuse some lightweight cream fabric that had been across the wardrobe at Dingles but after pinning it up I realised it was too yellow.

Yesterday I had bought a cream bed sheet (M&S, £2 at the climate shop) which I shortened and pinned to make the lining for the new curtain. It also is not quite the right shade of cream (Dulux magnolia to be exact) to use as the actual curtain so I will need to be a bit more careful with my colour matching. I may even send off for some fabric samples to buy new.

I started some knitting or at least picked out the wool to make a cosy for the new metal travel mug that I bought for our library meet ups as the handless one I have sometimes spills a bit on the way home.

In general a very quiet day.