Annoyingly after the late finish last night, I was still up and at 'em early....grrr.

More reading and tea as has been the case for the past 10 days before eventually Alex broke cover; there's a vague threat (not for the first time, or for the second either) that his grandma might be about to peg out; so he (and Tom) had been summoned to her bedside. However since this was semi arranged from the train home, and Alex announced he still had a bit of a cold (Tom's Zante cough) it eventually became clear that the Grim Reaper was not arriving imminently and so I rearranged y morning (again) and headed off to pick up the hound from Her.

Having dropped supplies and had brunch, I took Loki off to collect my shorts from the St Jamesy Centre and walked home along the various paths; and was in around 3. 90 minutes of TdF / sleep / TdF ensued before domestic duties resumed; laundry and butter chicken (needed less fierce chillies to work properly).

A post parandial wander to source almond milk (IKR?) and tomato puree in the warm evening sunshine before reading resumed.

There's more than a nod in the direction of Dreich in this shot; buff and person vs wall