A new day

I kept waking with bad dreams, restless legs and feeling too hot last night so gave up and rose at  about 5.30am, enjoyed a cup of tea and had all the ironing done soon after 6am , then headed downstairs to the stitching cave to mend my grandson's school shirt when this beautiful light caught my eye. A traditional warning of pink sky in the morning suggested rain so after Dr D returned from his weekly visit to the cathedral to play the organ for a couple of hours, he changed into working clothes, hitched the fertiliser spreader to the mower and put out 80 kilograms of fertiliser onto our lawn (except for the few narrow fiddly bits which I broadcast by hand).
So we're all ready for the promised rain over the next week .
Directly after breakfast I stewed apples, put shortbread in the oven, pruned the rosemary and silver beet in he veggie garden while it was cooking , then returned to the stitching cave for some relaxing knitting for Darcy Dean in Australia.