Having a free weekend is something of a rare commodity for me (hark at him!), so I’d offered to help Big Gareth with his exterior woodwork. It’s the middle of June, so perfect for painting outdoors…

Yes. Not that suitable for painting. We did however get out on the Sunday and accomplished all that we planned – and then some – including regular splats in the face when recoating our brushes. Gareth has a more complete review of what we did about painting and our trip.

I managed to find a couple of little books for one of the topics we cover at work. They’d been reduced from a massive £1 to a bargain 99p. The 99p sticker was on the front, and the wee wifey in the Fisheries museum looked at the back and charged me the £1 anyway. But she was too sweet to argue with! The museum features some scary soon to be in Doctor Who as an evil created army “lifelike” figures of old fisher folk…