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RAIN ALMOST all day, with a deluge in the afternoon, turning the gutters into rivulets and leaving fans of debris. Like a river delta, it is sorted into twists of gravel and crescents of sand. In the wood, shallow notches across the path are re-cut by water finding its way down to the stream. A large green branch is blown down from an Ash tree.
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A good day to catch up with work indoors. Barbara calls me to look at a mystery cocoon, attached in the angle between the window frame and windowsill in the spare bedroom. It's probably that of a spider. It is so carefully woven, with a silky sheen, a slightly speckled surface and a fringe where it is attached along the edges, that we decide to leave it to see what hatches out.
One of the few glimpses we get of wildlife today is the flash of a Sparrowhawk as it swoops down over the compost heap. It stops for a minute in the grass under the apple tree before flying off again.