A change of plans

 Whilst Rosie is on the mend, Tam is still not feeling at her best with this wretched bug.  We have changed our plan and instead of all being here, and cooking a meal at home after our outing to Powis Castle, we are meeting up in Aberystwyth, having a fish and chip lunch (K's favourite) and then going up to walk along the beach at Borth.  Parking should be easier there and HOW I long to go to the beach, as I haven't really since we've moved here.  A stroll along the Prom and a sniff of sea air at Aber doesn't quite do it for me.  

Isn't this Cranesbill gorgeous?  Colour a bit flooded by my phone camera, and NOT true to colour either, as it is closer to Puce, but so cheerful to see in bloom.

As Gabby will be here tonight, I did a small grocery shop in Llandod.  Roads fine, apart from the traffic lights in operation to let people drive on and off the showground.  There were some horseboxes and cars towing old caravans making their way homewards.  Today is the last day of the show, so by tomorrow it will just be the late-goers (those with hangovers probably!), and all the tents, marquees, flags, heavy machinery etc left on the showground.

One last photo of the showground, as I was waiting for the lights to change.

It's been pretty hot here again today (21 deg) and too hot for painting at the front of the house.  I tried a couple of things to remove the sticky marks.  Nail polish remover didn't really work at all on this brand of tape stickiness.  WD 40 worked better but still not 100%.  I need to go out there again.  I did try the Stanley knife but it made me fairly twitch at the thought of it slipping and me bleeding like a stuck pig because of the blood thinners, so went back to the rather blunt wallpaper scraper.  At least that wouldn't take a finger off.  Someone mentioned Mayonaisse -  ??? nothing to be lost, so just slapped some of that on. Update: Would you believe it WORKS!  Don't ask me why . . .

The butterflies on the Buddleia have bought much you this year - over 20 mostly Peacocks on there today, and there were two Small Coppers elsewhere in the garden yesterday.

I spent a while with my cup of tea and The Devil's Star, sat outside at my patio set.  Could have sat there longer, but have Things to Do.

The best view of them was from the door-to-nowhere on the end of the landing but I was too idle to go and fetch my phone up.

Right, this won't do.  I shall make up a batch of Raspberry Muffins to take tomorrow, so we can have some on the beach later in the afternoon.

A bit early for the weekend, but have a lovely one anyway.