A day of this and that.

 A visit to Nae Sae New this morning to pick up and pay for a cassette player. Our old CD, cassette and radio came to its end. 

And what tape had Pirate left in the old one for me to find? Whitney Houston.."Your love is my love"....

The new one is just a cassette player, secondhand but in good condition...and works well. So the stack of cassettes won't go to waste!

Into Ayr for a little shopping..just perishables mainly as my larder is quite healthy. Then into the town itself, to try and find a rotary cutter...as the small one I have isn't going to cut nearly 400 pieces....

This was a mistake, as there was a gathering near the Low Green...and people in semi military uniform....and when I came out from the bookshop on the high street I realised...coming down the high street behind a police car with it's headlights on, was a marching band. 

I could quickly go ahead of them and back through an arcade to get back to my car...and echoing around the squares were the fifes and drums and the big Lambeg drum of the marching bands...a huge procession still coming out from the Low Green ...it was an Orangemens' procession...

Quite a chilling sound.  It explained why most of the shops on the High Street had few people in them and some were closed that I hadn't expected.

I was glad to be away from that...so home it was....lunch and then afternoon gardening.

Clearing what weeds there were from the parts of the garden with no crops..they had all been covered..

The bare patches have been loosened and raked. Phacelia sown for a green manure crop to be dug in in spring and raked in so that hopefully the sparrows don't make a meal of the seed!

The peas are rather windswept (but delicious) a tall old variety called Alderman that grows taller than me!

And the runner beans that are walking up the poles!!

That was definitely today's exercise!

After supper I carried on cutting quilt squares...I do really need a new cutter...

I checked online and haberdashers are getting far and few between. Even the crafts supermarket is about 35 miles away! 

The one place that I know that I can walk in and buy what I need is in Castle Douglas...45 miles south...in a family run shop that does all sorts of art and fibre supplies.

I cut the first colour of Squares...and the cutter is struggling.

Evening is getting earlier.

This was at 9pm.