We got it right! We'd decided that on one day over the weekend, we'd take the dogs on a really long walk and so relied on the Met Office to tell us the best day for that. They were right, this morning saw a beautiful blue sky, sunshine and mist.

For hours we tramped around the woods - lost tennis ball tally, 2, muddy dog tally, 2, tired humans tally, 2, photo tally - about 60 between us. In fact, this is almost the worst, I'm going to post some others in another gallery later but I wanted this FEEL for my photo diary. Deserted path, sunshine and the dogs in their usual position of Rosie (little black cutie) ambushing Archie (big macho chap).

It's been a really good day aside from setting off to go to see James Brown this evening - he's in the UK to record a TOTP2 special tonight - and because of engineering works on the railways and more torrential rain we had to turn round and come home.

Sorry to let you down Shazbop - I know it's twice in a week with the Stuffies too!

POSTSCRIPT: I am very grateful to Nikki for her posting today. Thank you Nikki.