Paddling Pals

Not a bad way to spend his first year of being seventy - Mike went off with our good friend, Vítor, in their kayaks, to a distant island and explored an abandoned house there. Bia is scared of the water, so she and I stayed ashore and chatted, though she did have a little go in both kayaks, as did I. Mike and I also had our first swim of the year.

Gratefuls:
- our guests sleeping well, and it being cool for them
- plenty of leftovers to feed them with
- a beautiful evening drive to Safara, to take cake to Dan and Mireille (Dan too ill to join us last night); blazing sunset on the way there, and a fingernail moon above an orange horizon on the way back

Oh, and feeling hope rising with the way Starmer is going about his job so far, the appointments he's made, his intelligent, measured way of speaking.