Stray cat strut

This pretty cat wandered through mums garden, late afternoon, looking for somewhere cool. She isn't the usual black fluffy visitor, but I didn't get too close.

We had a nightmare journey back from Gatwick. Dropped Mollie and Josh off at 12.30 but after numerous road closures on the M25 what should have taken 90 minutes actually took 135 minutes. We got to bed at mums just before 3am. Jon had been driving since 8pm!

A few jobs done, but with the heat unbearable, we took ourselves to Van Hagues to the cafe to treat ourselves to a holiday coffee and cake. A variation on our usual Saturday morning coffee by the sea.

In the afternoon a couple of men came over to look at dad's old lathe, and we were relieved that they were able to make mum an offer. It will be good to have the space, and to know it will go to a good home where it will still get used. I'm sure dad would have approved. As engineers, they knew what other bits go with the machine. Things that just look like lumps of metal to us.

Nothing much happened for us in the heat of today - it is far too hot for me.