Stormy In Borth.

I'm not too sure how to describe the weather today. Possibly changeable or more likely that Borth has been under the edge of a weather front and been bearing the brunt of the grey, wet weather.

The seas were wild first thing this morning but fortunately it was dry so once I'd wrapped up well I was able to enjoy my morning coffee outside.

As I sat there with the wind on my face my thoughts were busy with my next few projects. Once Paddington bear is done, which I hope to do tomorrow, the next thing will be installing two more water butts. 

With almost non-stop rain it's hard to imagine a time when I will need to water the garden but it does seem a shame to let all that water go to waste. One water butt will be at the front of the house and will make it easier to water the troughs of montbretia along the street wall. So far I've ordered all the taps etc that I need and hopefully I can finish that project next weekend. Even though the drain pipe diverters are supposed to shut when the water butts are full I haven't found them too reliable and will be putting in overflow pipes as well.

Once that's done I can make a start on building a compost bin between the garage and the block wall around the oil tank. It will have two levels for old and new compost with removable front panels for easy access. That's the idea, at least. 

We didn't do a lot in our riding lesson this morning, just 10m circles and transitions plus sitting trot. I think that most of us are able to work independently on whatever we and our horses need. For Tex it's softening onto the bit, bending his neck and his body and each week we get a little better. There were seven of us in the lesson today and as well as not running into each other we had to give May the new(ish) horse extra room as she was a bit skittish today. 

When we came out of the indoor school the sky was blue dotted with fluffy white clouds, somewhat different to Borth in the morning. The photo above is when I got home from shopping.

It stayed sunny as I did my shopping with the cloud beginning to build up later in the afternoon and by the time I got home there was little sun to be seen.

In town I took a chainsaw bag with some tools to the Climate shop. The red wellies were still there so I bought them for Paddington. In another charity shop I bought a pad of lined paper and page dividers which Peter had asked for as he's currently organising his paperwork and folders. 

Before my last shopping stop at Lidl I went to Argos. I had noticed that when I switched off the hairdryer I bought there not so long ago, there was often a flash from inside the handle. Not good with wet hair and hands. Today I made sure to have my phone with me as the receipt was in my e-mails but I had forgotten to charge the phone and it was as dead as a dodo. The assistant did try and look on her computer but to no avail so I'll have to go back next week. I'll probably print out the receipt rather than relying on peering at my phone screen. While I was there I bought a new hairdryer, a different one hopefully of better quality.

I spent longer than usual in town and by the time I'd got another pan of apples stewing and prepped a salad for tonight's supper it was a while before I sat down with a big mug of tea and a giant pretzel (one of those bready ones) from the community food place. I'd done quite enough for one day.