Sea fishing and more sunshine

Well here on Anglesey we've been enjoying the longest spell of sunny weather that I can remember. In the last couple of months (maybe longer) we've only had one proper rainy day and a couple of cloudy days. My daughter and I love the sunny weather, so we've been making the most of it.

My friend Steve came and took me sea fishing for a couple of days, I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed fishing. We went to a popular place to fish, Holyhead Breakwater and over the two days we caught 11 dog fish. The fact that Steve's got a camper van added to the fun, you just can't beat a bacon butty and a cuppa while you're fishing lol. He wanted to take me to RAF Valley to watch the sunset, but as the tide was a high high tide, the sea started coming in a bit too quick for our liking, so we abandoned that idea before we got cut off lol.

I've also been spending most early mornings and nights working on my latest mosaic panel. Yesterday morning I put the last piece of glass on it ...whooooo. This only left the grouting to be done. Grouting is very time consuming, putting it on isn't quite so bad, but cleaning it off again is a nightmare as it's not a nice smooth surface like when you do tiles in bathroom. It's a mass of 100's of slightly uneven pieces which are a nightmare, as I have to clean off pretty much every one individually. But eventually by midnight last night I'd done the first rough clean off. Shortly, once I've posted this and wrote an email I'll do a 2nd clean clean on it, this involves polishing the tiles of the residue of grout dust and checking to make sure I've got it all off. Quite often this involves having to scrape off grout that I've missed, which I'm not looking forward to as my hands are already really painful from last nights grouting. Then once that's done it'll be a couple of coats of varnish as this panel is going to live outside my front door, so needs protecting from the elements.

Here's some photo's of my fishing trip, and my new grand daughters first smile captured on a photo awwww, she's so cute.

Fantastic couple of days

I've had a fantastic couple of days, with my friend Sharron being here. We've talked about everything under the sun, and had some pretty interesting dicussions about various subjects me and my daughter are interested in, and as it turned out so was Sharron. Although Sharrons visit was mainly to see me, I think we were all surprised how well her and my daughter got on too.

I was really sad to see my friend go last night, and I know she would have liked to have stayed another day or maybe even two, and I would have liked a few more days with her as time passed in a flash, but it's her hubby Martins birthday today, so she had to go home.

Yesterday we took a trip to the local RAF base, which Sharron really enjoyed as I knew a spot where we could go and watch the jets coming into land, with the jets coming right over our heads. We were determined to get the jets in the photo's as well as us, and had some hilarious moments, because the jets come in really fast, but as you can see we managed it.

As I expected, because Sharron and I were so close in the past, it was like we'd only seen each other a couple of weeks ago, rather than 8 years ago, but that's the way it goes with true friends.