A Summery Sunday Potter

Suddenly summer is back with us and we’re going around in polo shirts again. Some people have even been seen in shorts.

After a lazy start, Sheila went off on the WeBS walk; she tells me not many birds were visible, though a pair of linnets were about as well as one of the Little Grebe that bred here this year. It'll be rather later in the year before we see the winter visitors turn up; exactly when depends a bit on how quickly winter arrives in Siberia and Scandinavia and what the berry crop is like over there.

I frankly pottered about whilst she was away; I did do some clearing up in the well deck to pass the time. In addition, I baked some part baked petit pains as we hadn't quite enough bread for lunch. I’d moved the Ocado delivery to this afternoon so as to have Sheila's help with it.

Alan in the Cabbage van turned up twenty minutes before his time and we soon had the saloon full of bags. Sheila’s also been running wash loads as she catches up with the backlog that she’d allowed to accumulate in the final days of the run home. It’s much easier to deal with all that stuff when much of it can be tumble dried in the Facilities Block.

Finally, we’ve now got the new navigation lights polished to our satisfaction and I’m in the middle of applying three coats of Incralac to them.

Tomorrow is the big day when the lodge arrives and is sited; we’ll try and get some photos to put up here.