Today has been a glorious day and I've been cooped up indoors working and pottering. You don't need to be dressed to write, send emails and phone people so as usual I've wafted around in my nightie all day. It's plain knitted cotton and I like to think more 'loungewear' than sleepwear, but I have to admit it is my nightie, even if I don't wear it to bed.

Well, due to bankholiday the bins are being collected a day later, and my neighbours have been trundling out the wheelie bins, so I thought I ought to do the same. This week is the garden waste green bin collection, so I thought I'd better put the buddlia cuttings in bin. I'd left them out the back to dry out to make them easier to break up. So I put on my very tasteful Clarke's sandals and leather jacket over my nightie and dragged the buddlia remains through side passage to green wheelie bin.

It's been a glorious day as said and this was my first and only 'outing' of the day. The evening air was lovely and I had a perfectly delightful time breaking up twigs and dry branches and stuffing the wheelie bin.

So there I was in nightie, sandals and leather jacket enjoying the evening air and feeding my beloved wheelie and realising I'd probably turned into the local eccentric...