Diamond drops

Finally the sun! A bright and breezy day, this morning pottering in the garden and lunch taken al fresco.
The smell of leaked chowder bits was unbearable in the car so Himself has declinkered the inside - extremely throroughly! Hector was my car and last year we decided we could manage with just one car. Himself sold his and we now have joint ownership but there's had to have been a bit of an adjustment in the the collective attitude towards the car. Himself is very tidy and particular, whereas I regard it as large and essential bag, full of everything you might need. This is what it contained today (boot and back seat):
10 old sheets of coloured A3 card
2 large Ikea bags (one very smelly from the chowder)
one enormous transparent plastic bag
2 old towels
a pair of wellies ( a bit stinky from the chowder)
a pair of waterproof trousers
1 spotty sock, used
2 OS maps
a book on the antiquities of West Cork
an atlas
various sweetie wrappers,
some congealed jelly babies ( I blame my brother for those)
a basket full of CDs
a small piece of red brick brought back from the ancestral home in Berwickshire (that was gathered 4 years ago)
seveal pieces of beachcombed pottery and glass
a pair of earrings
2 pens and a pencil
a notepad
lots of change and some stamps
a cotton scarf
a mac
a shopping list
a shopping bag
a beret (rather nice, fair Isle)
a frisbee
a few old Christmas cards never delivered
a pair of blue fingerless mittens
some walking socks
And that's without investigating the glove compartment. A few items have crept back in.

In the afternoon we had an explore and ventured out to see if we could get inside the Old Grainstore. This involved a certain amount of trespass but the sun was shining and no-one would have minded. We fought our way in and it was impressive and melancholy. Originally 4 storeys high, tall and skinny and well made but no roofless and covered in ivy.  This is what it looks like from the outside.

I took tons of photos but this little web of raindrops won, spotted this morning, the spider still in residence.