Today has mostly been soggy. Every time Jodie was on the verge of being dry, we took her back outside again.... She seems much perkier today, though, and was full of beans on her walk, so I suspect she'd just scoffed something the disagreed with her, or got a bit of a bug from one of the other dogs. Fingers remain slightly crossed.

Our veg box today included fractal cauliflower:

It's very pretty, so it's just a shame that neither of us is that keen on cauli....

Not that I can post this just now: our internet connection's gone down again. Ho hum.

Oh, and Is It Just Me or is the new version of the iPhone Reminder app (since iOS7) really horribly crap? Or is it just that no one else uses it, or does so with intermittent data? You can't go through the list and tick off more than one thing, because when you tick the first one it slowly and non-obviously syncs with The Cloud, then moves the ticked item to the top of the list, *then* registers the fraction-of-a-second-later second finger tap. So by the time it registers the second ticking off, the list has re-ordered and you've just marked something completely random as done. Magic. This is my current default excuse for not doing things. Which would be a funny if not for the fact that I'm fairly sure I have in fact not done things because of it.

This morning, I set myself a reminder to do thingie, with the default setting if 9am that day. When I went to tick it off, the 9am one was there but also a 6pm one, repeating fortnightly. My fortnightly reminder to put the bins out, on the other hand, had vanished. I may have to go back to the app I used before Reminders was put in.

And you (well, I) can't unlock the phone one handed with the new unlock screen. My thumb doesn't seem able to swipe far enough. Bah. Humbug.

Still, at least Mike fixed my phone, so it's no longer alarmingly covered in broken glass.

This afternoon, having foolishly believed the weather forecasts, we took the pooch to the beach. It was mostly dry, other than when we were within a few hundred meters of the car.

(On the way back, we should have realised--and started walking faster--when Dungeness vanished into the haze....)

It was a new-to-us beach, at Dymchurch. It's an enormous big flat expanse of sand, and Jodie thought it was tremendously fun, much better than the stony beach at The Warren where we've taken her before.

It even had seagulls to chase!

I suspect it's a bit of a nightmare in summer, as the town's very small with narrow streets. I also suspect it's unpleasant in a storm, as there's an enormous sea wall .