It is not often that we spend the day at home. But a change of plan and some relentless rain meant that we did just that.

It was an opportunity to look out the travel guides for our forthcoming holiday.

Last year when we visited the hamlet of Capraia in north west Tuscany NM had picked this wild flower and pressed it in the guide book. I found it there as I leafed through it this afternoon. In three weeks time we will be back there again.