A leisurely start; as the dawn broke it was clear it was frosty outside; so MOTD (the bits I had missed from last night) and tea / porridge before domesticity become irksome so I arranged to meet Baz and his mutt Rufus at Portobello; the tide was out, the sand was frozen, the sun shone; it was perishing. Not helped by me in shorts having cycled there, but... 

We had a good hour of catch up and we headed off to our homes. I hung washing up and then after a brief window where we thought we might get a few hours together, that fell through so we met at the supermarket and had a leisurely cycle back; stopped for coffee and cake at Akva before chumming her home (not inside; path of least resistance ahead of tomorrow's school meeting) and off I went. 

Dinner and painting and doing her online Xmas shopping; a quiet end to a not so quiet week.


Baz admits defeat in his quest to break into the sewerage works. Extra is Rufus