Painted lady

Everyone seemed to be awake early but it was just after 7 when K and O left, Skye bound. I mooched around and contemplated a swim. I'm glad I went. By 9 the pool was shoal free and it was actually possible to swim up and down in a straight line for nearly 40 minutes.

After catching up on some admin and domestic stuff I sat in the garden in the afternoon. It was warm in the sun. I cut the grass (K's unique way of doing it had left odd patches) and dead headed the roses. There was another fox encounter, with the cub. S/he came along behind me and there was a bit of hissing and retaliatory growling with Molly but the cub was more wary. But that didn't stop her/him coming having a good look round the whole garden and eventually coming right up to lick my toes.

The leftover Chinese meal with my last Tiger made a very good dinner and I decided to postpone the rest of the scheduled tasks till tomorrow. Later E came by for a confab and once she'd left I caught up with WDYTYA', definitely played for laughs by the Whitehalls.

The painted lady explosion continues, but they don't 'sit still' for long.