Wet and dry

 A day of showers..and ear and eye tests...and paying for new lenses (£120) and new specs (£119) and having an ear test...all good!

The small art and crafts shop. The Dancing Thistle, took four smaller prints, tiny bowls a berry bowl and two other various bowls plus a couple of bud vases... brilliant,!!

Waterstones lunch to celebrate everything. Then I did the rounds of the op shops...and the ones in Prestwick...looking for curtains. 

Practically all had nothing!!

We had heavy showers.. luckily I was on a bus

But later the light was fun

We did it!

 Through the front door on its back....up end and turn..walk it through the living room door...walk it to its place set down and....

                   Voilà!!!!

The covers need replacing....but it looks like the bed part has never been used.... so worth every penny.

My helper went away happily holding a jar of homemade chutney...made with the plums of another member of the cycling club!!

It has been a beautiful..but cold..day....and the primulas and primroses are still flowering. Last January's -10⁰C hardly checked them...and they haven't stopped....

Ending

 Housework done, I drove to Fife friend's house late morning, and waited for him to walk back from chapel ( which in Scotland means Catholic...I wonder why it has ended up that way round here)

Then to Dunfermline where the sofa bed resided that I was buying....

The owner has said that it was 5 foot wide..

It was.. BETWEEN the arms...

I now know that I can get a 6 foot sofa in the back of a Berlingo with no rear seats and the passenger seat as far forward as possible!!!!

We were about to give up when it decided to cooperate!

Back through Dunfermline...and there were lots of people walking away from a park....and Xmas floats....and Papa Smurf driving in the other direction on a motorbike!!

We both needed a coffee after all that!!

Then a good drive home...and arriving just as night fell.

Picture tomorrow to prove that it was done!!

Beginning

 The sliver of new moon has disappeared as the sun rises in a clear sky.

A new season starting frostily and Robin and blackbird are shouting a warning..a local cat slinks by.

Time to hang the washing out on the line...it is forecast to be dry today.

Stock

 Gallery duty today...and time to change stock around a little....plus to consider what might sell in the small art and shop in Ayr that is relocating.

Fresh work in the Smiddy Gallery.

My prints are coming from there too, and the smaller ones will go to Ayr.

The Dancing Thistle, although moving to bigger premises will still be a small shop...I'm looking forward to seeing how she arranged the shop for opening on Monday.

After supper I reviewed my stock of runner beans...taking the beans from the pods

More had spoilt than I had hoped..I think that next year I need to get a lot of different seeds sown earlier, and have them finish sooner in the year...

Getting these ripe and dry has been a problem. Hopefully an earlier start will solve this.

Holemaker

 

Thanks for the names! 

Yes, a bradawl or gimlet.  For making small holes ... sometimes pilot holes before making a bigger hole so that the wood doesn't split.

I wonder if these are different words for the same thing, but derived from different languages? Or via different fields of work.....wood, leather, metal ??

Things on a dreich day

 

Hoe head for brother

Pasta/clay rolling pin

Plate from Brittany 

Sharp pointy Thing...not a dibber!

Present from Pembrokeshire friend...in use as I fired up the bread machine!!

Which has just beeped to say that it has finished!!

It has been a miserable dreich day... steady rain on sodden ground...and going steadily darker too early because of low clouds.

I needed to go for a walk.... Sleep was elusive last night and this might help....I went on the bike on the turbo for twenty minutes instead!!

Mind you if I hadn't been commenting on a fb post at 2am I wouldn't have "met" another Rixon from Oz....