Aha! A title, finally.

[Editorial note: the Blogger interface has decided, in its infinite wisdom, to stop me from entering a title. I click in the field, it does nothing. It's a little game we like to play.]

Yes, I know I'm late.

It all comes from being very, very busy you know. So busy that the standard disclaimer about poor quality of the following post is fully in force. So busy that on Sunday, what I should have been doing was working on any number of things - a grant application, some more consulting work, or even catching up on a personnel review or two. What I was doing, of course, was being a Valiant Prince Saving The Fair Princess, weilding a light saber, and clad in a very stylish black velvet sword belt with little gold studs, a Darth Vader cloak and a variety of silly hats. And riding about the basement on a large blue bouncer that I am reliably informed is named "Bouncy".

No, there aren't any photos.

Anyway, the Fair Princess in question was well and duly saved and that was the end of that, as well as pretty much being the end of any productive home-working time.

What there are photos of is the trip on Saturday to visit a whole whack of cousins (to whom I am technically not related at all) who were a) visiting from Scotland, b) staying in a rather nice rented house near a village in [Warning! The following URL has silly music!] Prince Edward County, and therefore c) over two hours' drive away. So the visit was nice, but completely wiped out any work-time I might have had on Saturday.

But there were lots of pretty flowers:



some mushrooms:



a rail fence:



and even some wildlife:



plus all of the aforementioned cousins. So we had a nice time, and I'm fairly sure that they think I'm only slightly demented for rushing about taking pictures of lawn furniture, ratty old fence rails and the neighbour's garden.

Ah well, it's what I do I suppose.

Now, off to work...