After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that squirrels cheat even worse than frogs.  You only ever see them running across the road when you are in a car, or scampering about on the ground when on a leash.  Even if you were free to chase, the little blighters run up trees to escape – its outrageous!  Squirrels aside it has been quite a productive day.  Aunty Biscuit has managed to complete the white hat, start to strip her dried lavender heads (behind schedule, Mum did hers weeks ago), boil some crab apples to a mush and set them to drip ready for jelly (also weeks behind schedule).  Mum has been doing some preliminary work developing an idea for a scarf, its all very interesting..