A rainy sunny day on the Isle of Lewis

I could have spent the whole day just watching the weather over the bay. It has been so changeable today. Often here you witness black clouds and a downpour in one direction, and brilliant sunshine in the other. My early evening blip illustrates this.

This afternoon we took advantage of our hire car and made a trip into town. We thought that it was high time that we visited Lews Castle in Stornoway, so took a wander round the museum and the reception rooms on the ground floor of the castle. There we saw a few of the Lewis chessmen, currently on loan from the National Museum of Scotland (see the first extra). These little fellows mean a lot to us, not least because it was to Baile-na-Cille that they were first brought after they were unearthed on Uig Sands (or nearby - nobody's absolutely sure of their hidey-hole).

At the end of our visit to the castle I stupidly drank a huge mug of fully-caffeinated tea in the museum café without considering how much I would pay for this at bedtime. Then we set off again for a tour of the shopping delights of Stornoway. I made a single £1 purchase in the big charity shop: a small, square Portmeirion tray illustrated with a picture of a European roller (coracias garrulus).

The fourth Scrabble game of the current series, started just before dinner this evening, was a stonker. The total of our two scores was 917, with 611 of those points mine. I Scrabbled four times, the last time across two triple word scores. I have recorded the final state of the board as a second extra (and yes, 'weeniest' is in our official Scrabble dictionary!)

Exercise today: small amount of walking (7424 steps).