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....

Change

 I'm giving this away....as on Sunday I go to collect a two seater sofa bed.

Grandma said...if you can't move, move the furniture!! ....some is moving out, some is moving around.

I've got a sideboard that needs to go too, but that will be sold as it is wood and worth quite a bit...and should more than pay for shelves with glass doors so that I can have my collection on show, but not needing dusting too often!!

I'll photograph the awl (?) tomorrow and the plate...then you can see all the treasures.

Very wet

 I managed to pick the last of the rather damp runner beans. Now they are on the greenhouse staging ready to be sorted and dry for both eating and growing next year.

From ten o'clock it "did what it said on the tin"....as forecast, with a yellow warning, cold, very wet and rather windy.

After lunch I had had enough..and saw a FB posting by Nae Sae New....a ribbed rolling pin for pasta...so I said I'd buy it..and went there in the car straight away!!

And found a sturdy hoe head that will fit the handle that my brother has..to clear his block paving drive of weeds....and a thing for making holes by hand with a Wooden handle....and a Quimper blue and white cake/biscuit plate with a cockerel design....as you do when you enter such a marvellous emporium!! 

The rolling pin is made for rolling out pasta...but could be used with clay....

Not much done for the rest of the day.. mainly chatting by message to various people and making a list of things to do when it is hopefully dry tomorrow.