Getting The Grass Down...

has resulted in...lots of birds getting amongst it and they are taking grass to use in nests and though short because a strimmer still doesn't cut as a lawn mower would they are in there finding insects.

The sky is dull and colourless but it could still get out yet. No sign of rain so far.

I could go to Durham now but I'll head out around midday. Even if I arrive at 1pm the Regatta is on until 6pm. I will take my chair and may just take a bottle of water but there is food, refreshments and booze nearby. Apparantly a vintage car display and bands playing across the day.

I can have a meal when I come home. I'll wear a sunhat. Debating whether to take/wear more in case it gets cold/windy but then again if it gets warm. I can avoid taking a rucksack/backpack with me but if I start thinking this way I have to take more stuff with me.

Still time to decide.

I found a cheap(?)well not really, best price for the tomato capsules/tablets this time is in a high street retailer known for selling health products(normally I find that retailer too expensive)but a lot of the offers are buy two and get a third free. We're talking 90 tablets for £30. This retailer at present is doing 100 tablets for £18*(Buy one, pay half price for the second)so that's actually a better buy by £12 and 10 extra tablets. And they'll last me almost 3 months. And they seem slightly higher in content. They have a branch in Durham.

*They were less than that.

Update:I found a good place to take images of the Regatta(I decided I wasn't up to walking to the ground where everything was taking place)Perhaps I'll have a little look tomorrow(weather permitting)but I didn't get any real photo's worth posting and the few crews that came my way were not racing. Just taking it slow...perhaps practicing/winding down.

I got the tomato tablets, some medicated powder and discovered a musical featuring the words of poet Ian McMillan, cartoonist Tony Husband, the music of Luke Carver Goss, the Tredegar Town Band  and called the Last Train to Elvet. Its part of the Brass Festival happening in Durham during July.

I didn't take the seat, just two packets of crisps and a small bottle of water. So quite a light load.

I hope I am on for the Big Band concert tomorrow in the grounds of the Durham Light Infantry Museum.

I have had a mug of Coffee and a ready meal of Gammon in a creamy apple sauce with mustard mash potato since coming home. And I'm doing some radio listening again.

I think that I said previously that the more expensive coffee I'm drinking for now isn't as nice as the cheap one I usually purchase. I have to admit I am getting used to it but I can get approx 8 jars of mine for the price of this one. That's 600g more too. Even in one of the discount stores I can buy 3 jars of mine for the price of one of theirs and again that's 200g more.