Lazy(?) day...



 After all that walking yesterday, half my legs (i.e. one) said "Stay in bed" and the other said "Hup two three four" so I headed north for half a mile on the beach.  For an hour.  Bugger but it's a long way back and walking into the sun.  Oh well.  Time to open the Christmas jigsaw from Aunt Rosemary in the UK.  A right sod it is, too - a picture of a bayou in the twilight, I think (not allowed to look at the picture: it's a family thing.)  I've got the entire edge put together and am now staring at two huge piles of pieces - one of lily pads and the other one of not lily pads.  And a third pile of neither.  This is going to take a while.

Blogger.com has stopped letting me wrap text around my pictures which sucks.  Oh well, what do you expect for free?

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