Highights

Someone might pay good money at the hairdresser's to have a fringe with highlights like this.  She has an additional adornment of a few shoots of green moss.  This Highland cow alternates curiosity and insouciance, the latter every time I raise the camera to take her photo.  The afternoon sun disappeared into cloud just before I eventually took this, but maybe the diffuse light picked out her highlights better anyway.

After a damp start first thing, it turned into a mild and sunny day.  I nearly completed the day's main task of clearing the wood pile off the lawn.  The grass has been underneath it since before Christmas, and the lawn is in a sorry state.  Some gardeners would say it's always in a sorry state, full of weeds and not enough bright green grass.  But I like it like that, with lots of flowers to attract bees and other pollinators.  And I guess it will soon be looking good again, to my eyes at least.

The old house is now fully scaffolded, and I went up to look at the state of the roof and chimneys.  There's no wonder we have been having water ingress at both gables, the lead flashings have parted company with the chimneys, and water can pour in through the gaps.  This has been a consequence of the subsidence two years ago, and Pete the builder will soon be undertaking the necessary repairs.