Guests out, somewhat crochetty Beloved out in truck accompanied by tiresome terrier looking for furniture; Handsome out rendering walls on new toolshed. Beautiful wimp asleep in front, Feline Houdini ditto on kitchen floor (south wind stays: it's warm, if windy into the front door. Granny is writing about tea with a Pakistani family in Birmingham and listening to Water Music on radio (or is it fireworks? - she always gets them muddled up.) Yesterday, down at the mud flats, beautiful wimp put up a heron. Beloved and Granny almost ran over a hoopoe on way out; granny had to get out to shoo it off driveway. Grannyp