Highland cow on a diet

A nice bit of driftwood on the beach

And a mermaid's purse.

I've spent a lot of time this week going around charity shops looking for things to take to Italy. I have acquired a huge pile of books for children - and maybe some for me - but not many clothes. 

In between I took a lovely walk along the beach to Mumbles (and caught the bus back), and had a good chat with the pastor from church about stuff. He sympathised with my latest problem and said that, in his experience, it was never the people he was trying to help that were the problem but other Christians in ministry. Sad but true.

I'm currently not going out on Friday evenings to support working girls because I am 'disloyal', so that's sad. Maybe things will change but I'm not banking on it.

Had a lovely day yesterday with GrandDaughter2. We visited the Upside-down House in the morning, attacked some more charity shops, had KFC for lunch, and then, inspired by the recent workshop, I got us trying our hands at some artwork.

I forgot to take a photo from outside but I hope you can see that the floors are on a tilt. At the time I was amazed how weird it felt. It was dizzy-making. I couldn't understand but then worked out that my eyes and ears were experiencing different things and confusing my poor brain. Good fun anyway.

I think my eyes were still confused when I painted the thinnest highland cow in the world! GrandDaughter2's horse was very good though. She is into horses at the moment.

Off to the hairdresser's today - and more charity shops!