A challenge

 The morning was housework - stripping winter bedding off the guest bed, deep clean the bedroom, vacuum mattress etc and washing.  New summer bedding back on.  It was cold in the night though - I put the central heating on for an hour last night, but then put it back to 14 at which setting it will kick in if very cold.  It hasn't for months, but it did last night.  No wonder all the cats were using me as a hotty botty!

This was my challenge, the cobbled (hah!) corner behind the greenhouse which has been ignored far too long.  I had NO reason to carry on ignoring it so have given it about an hour and a half of my time this afternoon, and made progress . . .

Willow trees reduced (will have to try and remove the bottom bits), brambles removed, grass and umbellifers and dandelions with 18" leaves all ripped out.  I need to make an appt at the Tip for next week and then I can clear the area beneath the rubbish.  This was two wheelbarrowsful. I think this area will have a covering of good weed membrane and some bark chippings, so at least then nothing can get rooted into and under the cobbles . . .  Yes D, I am looking ahead to when I Can't Do It . . .

Now I am weary.  I've read a bit more of Rynor Winn's "Landlines" - I have to say I would NOT be walking the Highlands with blisters and plasters ripping the skin off my feet.  When Danny was going to walk Hadrian's Wall, I found some blister-proof socks for him and bought him a couple of pairs and they worked a treat.  His mate, in ordinary socks, had blisters from day one.

I am back to my knitting and another challenge - knit the hidden internal band onto the outer - managed it, albeit slowly, and now I am back to knitting the outside again.  I shall go in and finish watching an old film I found yesterday, Tea with Mussolini, filmed in beautiful Florence.