After 40' on Thursday, it's 14' on Saturday!
Last night the wind howled around the lookout room and the windows shook but it was exhilarating. The morning was grey, cool and raining so tennis was cancelled and David was able to potter some more outside.
I built a fire in the shelter shed's stove which worked fine and he was able to finish off his sign for the front of the house.
He's had a piece of myrtle beech wood since our honeymoon in Tasmania 46 years ago - and here was the perfect use for it. I took it to a sign-maker where the man took one look and suggested that wood was too difficult: how about a nice piece of black vinyl with white letters. David was horrified and tried a cabinetmaker who put it through his machine and came up with just what David envisaged and now it's in place:
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| 1 Cape Douglas Road |
There was just time to go around the pots before returning to the Mount for the Tennis Club's dinner - and a grand score of 4 crayfish of legal size and one 'rat' which was thrown back. No, not rattus rattus but an undersized crayfish.
Crayfish score: 4!
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