In the morning, the sun was shining. Such a difference from yesterday!
We weren’t going anywhere and Scamp wanted to plant some more flower seeds. She did mention that it would be good to have a tool to press the seeds into the soil, and I took this as a request.
I dug out my old panel saw, a Sandvik that I’d bought when I was at college, more years ago than I care to remember. I measured up a piece of plywood and also measured the size of the tray I was going to need for the job. I was originally going to work outside, because the sun was warming the place up, but rather than keep going into the house for a plane and sandpaper then a pencil, it made more sense to just set up my old trusty Workmate in the back bedroom and work there. About an hour later I had the tool Scamp was asking for. Originally I was intending to screw a handle on to it, but realistically, some Araldite adhesive did a better and quicker job. Of course I had to tidy up the room afterwards, but the hoover made that easy. I hope it suits the purpose and I think it will.
After lunch I was going to check for updates on Flickr but I kept getting the same message that Firefox can’t connect to the server at flickr.com.
I remembered having the same message on my old iMac and fixing it by loading up an old Flickr photo from way back and that seemed to clear it. That same trick seemed to work again.
The foregoing is just a reminder to self if I need to fix this in the future
Later in the afternoon I went for a walk and saw a young deer on the path round St Mo’s. I hadn’t seen any deer in the woods for a couple of years and thought they must have moved on to somewhere less open, but there it was, walking along the path quite blithely. I got a few photos of it, but it was too well camouflaged and too far away by the time I caught a clear glimpse of it to get a decent photo. I’ll keep my eyes open for it returning in the next few days.
PoD is a bunch of bright yellow Goat Willow catkins that caught my eye.
Dinner tonight was Pasta with some Chicken and Mushroom. Usually Scamp makes it, but mine was a decent copy.
Tomorrow I’m hoping to meet up with Alex in Glasgow to see what he’s been up to in the past weeks.