A beautiful day today and apparently forecast to stay this way over the weekend. We slept in and then popped over to Llandrindod for me to buy a beading needle and some Vilene Bondaweb. The beading needles are for some cross-stitched birthday cards I am making which are having seed beads added to them. The Bondaweb is for more of the project I am working on at the moment - more will be on this on my craft blog over at Silver Nutmeg.

Then took the dogs for a nice walk. Parked on the outskirts of Builth and walked along the side of the river Wye, past Llanelwedd, the RWAS showground and down to the bridge before walking back. The path, which is also part of the national cycle path network was peaceful and full of flowers, especially wild strawberries and stitchwort so it looked gorgeous. The dogs enjoyed it and showed great interest in the sheep, but were kept firmly on their leads. There were a couple of anglers fly-fishing in the Wye, and as we walked parallel with the showground, we could hear a stallion show going on with the disembodied voice of the announcer occasionally floating over, asking for the 3 year old Section C colts to be in the ring and so on.

Home to a late brunch and a peaceful afternoon of cross-stitching, reading the paper and relaxing. Andrew cooked a nice meal tonight; to celebrate Murgatroyd's birthday which was yesterday, he made a pavlova with raspberries and we all had a piece. Yum. Watched some TV and now it is time for bed.