What a busy and exciting social whirl we’ve enjoyed this week! Two outings to two theatres in one week. I am definitely feeling extraordinarily cultured although, of course, the truth is that I am still anything but. Continue reading “21 September 2014”
14 September 2014
It’s been a pretty good week – not a huge abundance of sunshine but enough to make you feel that it’s been a pretty nice day. To be fair, things are turning decidedly autumnal – there is a freshness in the air, the mornings have tended to start somewhat mistily and the Boston Ivy is turning already! Too soon! Continue reading “14 September 2014”
7 September 2014
Surprisingly, it’s been a pretty good week. After one of the coolest Augusts we’ve had in many years, September has started warm, dry and mainly sunny. We’re still waiting for the arrival of a proper Indian summer but this will do in the interim.
Penelope was out in the front the other day and noticed a veritable bombardment of swallows – there were probably around twelve to fifteen swallows performing aerial acrobatics above our driveway. I am guessing that this was the third brood of our resident swallows having been fledged and learning to fly and catch their food on the wing along with all the previous brothers and sisters. I imagine they were getting their instructions straight for the upcoming migration to South Africa.
“OK, has everyone got that? We’ll meet on the twelfth above the cricket pitch and then set off on the following day. Don’t forget to pack your toothbrush because once we leave we aren’t turning back!” Continue reading “7 September 2014”
31 August 2014
You will all be mightily relieved, I’m sure, to know that we survived the weekend with Annabelle and have just about recovered from the exertions. She was good as gold and, of course, we had a marvellous time. She was a bit unsettled the first night and ended up in our bed with Penny – I was relegated to one of the spare bedrooms which was, I gather, just as well as Pen says she squirmed and wriggled all night. My goodness, not only does she have boundless energy but she even expends some of it while asleep! Continue reading “31 August 2014”
24 August 2014
A distinctly cooler spell of weather this week – it seems like summer may indeed be receding from view in our rear-view mirror. It’s still been a pleasant enough week – no great deluges of rain in spite of the occasional dark foreboding skies – but significantly cooler than the temperatures we were enjoying before the remnants of hurricane Bertha passed through. Unfortunately, the Guardian had an article on Monday announcing that this was, indeed, the end of summer.
Forecasters said there was “not much to be optimistic about” as temperatures look set to remain below average with spells of rain throughout the rest of August.
After basking in a glorious heatwave for much of July, the curse of the typical British summer has struck again.
17 August 2014
After the dire predictions of the wrath that hurricane Bertha was forecast to wreak, I have to say that we got off pretty lightly. Not sure that she deposited a month’s worth of rain in a day as they had projected, at least not in our neighbourhood anyway. Certainly there were lashings and lashings of rain on Monday but not the high winds that had been predicted, fortunately. She came, she did a bit of pissing about on everyone and then she left. Still, the weather has been considerably cooler in the aftermath with largely cloudy and overcast skies and the occasional thunderous downpour through the rest of the week. Continue reading “17 August 2014”
10 August 2014
Another good to terrific week of weather! We had a bit of rain on Tuesday but not enough to get worked up about and, of course, the gardens need it after our lengthy spell of dry, sunny weather. To be fair when we did get some rain it came in the form of thunderous downpours and the humidity has been on the overly-generous scale but, on the whole, a very good week.
Having said all that, the forecasters are suggesting that we will pick up the tail end of Hurricane Bertha which they expect to dump up to a month’s worth of rain in a few hours later today! Continue reading “10 August 2014”
3 August 2014
Another really good week (mainly). More hot & sunny weather, more barbeques and lovely summer evenings. Yesterday brought a bit of a departure from the norm – pounding rain showers with thunder but today is supposed to be lovely again. Fingers crossed. Continue reading “3 August 2014”
27 July 2014
It’s been a great week of weather – hot and sunny! I had a very nice bike ride on Tuesday – the sun was blazing, there was a gentle breeze and the sky was blue as I leisurely pedalled my way around one of my various cycle circuits. I stopped to take the photo below just to give you a feel for how idyllic it was – a long straight stretch of road from Priors Hardwick towards Lower Boddington – with wheat fields on one side and grass fields with gambolling lambs on the other and not any other traffic to be seen. Lovely.
20 July 2014
It’s been a great week and, weather-wise it’s been outstanding. It’s been warm bordering on “hot” for much of the week with (mainly) clear skies and a light breeze. From the Guardian on Thursday:
Heatwave alert as temperatures soar to high of the year in England and Wales