Luc's boat: Tyche

Cloudy and very heavy today, still and airless. The newspaper informs us that we are in for a grim summer, the wettest and coldest for 25 years - they could have kept that to themselves.

Gentle pottering - gooseberries and the first blueberries are picked, and peas and broadbeans gathered in; lawn mowed.

I took a stroll down to the sea by Luc's house. This is his fishing boat. He mostly catches lobsters, shrimps and crabs which he keeps in big tanks. Not many fish about at the moment apparently, though a lot of dolphins have been spotted off the Mizen Peninsula. I still haven't been swimming yet this year.