Don’t believe anything a fisherman tells you, Agus - we all tell lies! 
. There are worse predators than herons on lakes and rivers - herons only take what they need and will hardly upset the balance. And of course, they were there first!
Greyduster Your photos are always beautiful.
Never mind the wasted trips to M&S...four chocolate biscuits will soon restore the spent energy. I've enjoyed a nutty, crunchy yogurt bar with two ginormous mugs of tea. I sat in the sunshine on the garden bench and didn't feel an inkling of an urge to tend the garden. 
It's looking grand.
Fennel I also know how you feel. You've taken the most important step. You are where you wish to be. Your home will materialise when the time is right. It took almost eleven months until we were lucky enough to be offered our plot of land. From thereon we were re-energised.
Hello, the kitchen. Please don’t anyone mention the words Marks and Spencer (oops!). I have had three wasted journeys to two of their stores since yesterday trying to buy a pair of trousers, and I was so angry when I got home just now I ate four chocolate biscuits. They didn’t work - I’m still angry (but not hungry). I also bought a 30 cm basket liner to fit a 26 cm basket - and it is too small. I am losing the will to live. All the lovely calm feelings I banked from my fishing trip on Thursday have now completely dissipated. Not sure if I can even post a pic now can I, what with all these new regs coming in. I will try. Evening light with rising fish. I will come back when I am fit to talk to!
This new Data Protection thing has I hope, given me a chance to “prune” some email contacts from things I once subscribed too, all perfectly harmless, but sometimes irritating.
Would it make any sense to you if I say that in a strange sort of way I feel I am beginning to emerge from a long dark tunnel? Not missing Paw any less. (and I really needed him earlier in the week when I was in a dilemma over a matter concerning his family. I am fairly certain that my decision and course of action were exactly what he would have done, but how I wished I could have talked it over with him)
But I feel a little less rudderless and wonder if it was the few days away which have helped.
Anyway, it is good to feel a bit more positive.
Hoping all is well with you Kitcheners. I am making meringue for a pavlova later on today so look out for it! Do you prefer cream and raspberries, or cream and lemon curd? Nigella’s recipe so better slip into something slinky
Hello Fennel! Welcome back. 
Away to do some useful gubbins...empty the washing machine, do a pile of ironing, flick a duster casually over the furniture, especially where the dust settles without as much as a by your leave. Yawn!
I shall return tomorrow. 
kitty You've made me chortle. We have the same palaver when we meet with friends. There is barely a good ear between us.
I too hope that N&G is improving and will be back in the kitchen before too long.
Can anyone tell me why it is that my appetite has increased hugely fairly recently. I'm continually feeling peckish. I thought that as one aged...the appetite decreased.
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