Weather was fine in the morning, and I gambled that it would dry yesterday's rain up by the afternoon, so I took that afternoon off I'd been planning, to catch up with the garden.

Duly left at 12.40. Nothing like coming home at lunchtime. Set to in the garden: conditions were perfect, dry enough for apple harvesting, lawn mowing and potato lifting, damp enough for weeding. So I couldn't've judged that better.