It's been a warm and sunny day here chez Casa Reynard.
Slept well once I dropped off. Treated myself to a bit of a lie in. This morning's main task was sorting out my apple store. Everything is now stashed away. Have the last of the greengages and a few damaged Jolly Miller apples, which I will turn into jam tomorrow.
Lovely luncheon of avocado on toast, fruit and a
Afternoon's first task was to see if I could do the alteration to the garage door with the tools that I have. The answer is no. I only have a round hand file, which would be fine for small adjustments, but there's about 5mm of concrete and metal that I have to grind away, so that would take me forever. However, I need to do a tip run, and Screwfix is next to the tip, so I shall see about getting a grinding bit that will work with a drill.
After, I went foraging for hazelnuts. I visit this spot every year, and usually I will get a whole pannier bag of nuts, but this year there was almost diddly squat. The bushes looked very distressed, and the hedgerow was flailed last year too, which didn't help - hazel bears its nuts on the previous year's new growth.
While I was nearby, I dropped into the Co-op to see what they had on sticker. Some good buys there - four tubs of ricotta at 30p each, two tubs of marscapone at £1.40 each, plus a baguette, a crusty farmhouse, cheese & onion rolls and yum yums from their bakery (the bread in there is very nice btw), and a job lot of cat treat sticks at 50p for a sheet of six.
Omelette Arnold Bennett and a nice chunk of baguette for supper.
Now watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo highlights. I do like a good military band...
