Whether it's bright and sunny or drizzly and grey as it is today, the Clyde River is beautiful at any time and in all its moods.
The cool change helps as we empty the two downstairs rooms in readiness for the tiler who'll come tomorrow to lay cool, clean floor tiles. I had bought the tiles more than two months ago and it's taken me all this time to find a tiler who'd charge me less than a king's ransom to do the work.
The job should be finished before the weekend when we will move everything back into the rooms, except that we'll do a swap: the small sitting room facing the water becomes our bedroom so that we can look out on the river at night, and the room facing the pond becomes our second sitting room, small enough to keep warm on the occasional cold winter's night.
Here's Mozart's Symphony in G Minor; just right for a day like this:
