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Normal life? Well, yes, if you consider how much time I seem to spend hanging out of my bedroom window to take photos, today being a good example. In fact, it was this photo of the bright cloud over Gourock in the otherwise misty morning that got me up this morning; I'd have spent another half hour in bed were it not that it felt daft to go back after the above and a couple of others. 

My morning wasn't quite normal, however, in that I managed to get an appointment with my GP at the time I'd normally be at Pilates, so I went to the next class, the one Himself attends, and tucked myself into a corner where I wasn't interfering with anyone's view. Our teacher broke the news that she's been told that this week will be her last in her current studio; no reason given, but the rest of the building is so dilapidated that one can't help wondering. It's so difficult for her, being at the mercy of either unscrupulous employers or feckless landlords - we're all hoping she finds other accommodation soon. 

We managed not to become unconscious after lunch and got out in time to avoid being overtaken by the dusk - out into the quiet, misty, mild, damp day where the rain never quite fell on us despite the odd sense of water in the air. We walked up the Ardyne farms road and were stopped by the sight of first a couple of sheep, then all their pals, cautiously emerging from an opening on the left of the road as if they'd all just managed to open the gate of a field down the track there. We didn't feel up to persuading a whole flock back into a field, so took the cowardly way out and turned round, though I stopped to take a photo of the first two intrepidly crossing the road and eyeing up the track to the farm buildings. A car passed and stopped in the manner that suggested Someone Who Knew What To Do. The photo of the two intrepid ones, along with a nice bit of old wall, is in the collage in extras.

A last annoyance came when I opened the box of eye drops that I'd promised the consultant I'd start on after the weekend was over - the whole packet had expired at the beginning of July. Bad show, Inverclyde - the pharmacist here advised me not to use them, so we're working on getting a replacement ...

But not tonight!