The church was a reasonable temperature this morning but got warm by the afternoon for our Come and Sing ( mostly Mozart bits and pieces) . The singing was good if somewhat challenging at times.
My cake did not get eaten! Well only a couple of pieces, so it has come home. There were too many cakes and several fruit cakes like mine.
I am taking it upon myself to write up all the ins and outs of the day. It was well run, but two major committee members, Secretary and Treasurer, are retiring and so much detail of the running of events is in people’s heads. It needs a list. Our Chair has no interest in that sort of thing. She did not even get up and publicly thank our MD at the end.
I am going to a Male Voice Choir concert tonight at my own church, a fund raising event. It is a shame I have to drive as there is Wine. Another concert tomorrow afternoon too in the next village.
We've been to a half-day event at a church hall in Half An Hour Away Town and I managed to secure a seat between two open doors where there was a lovely breeze. The event (on contemplative prayer) included a lunch of homemade soup (choice of two), homemade bread (at least three sorts) and three kinds of homemade cakes and cookies at the tea break. I was very glad we went - not just because of the food.
We covered our two big front windows (south facing) with sheets on the outside before we went out but it doesn't seem to have made a huge difference to the temperatures in the house.
Stir fry for tea later. Probably quite a bit later. Too hot to even think about cooking at present.
Your evening sounds really wonderful @March Hare . St Beuno's is one of my favourite places in the world and I'm slightly envious of the sisters being there for the night. I must book myself a retreat for next year when my busy year is over and I have some time.
I had a very interesting day, talking up my writing group in a bookshop as part of our festival celebrations, followed by lunch in a local art gallery for the launch of an exhibition. Diane Abbot was there as she was doing a book talk later in the afternoon but I had to go off to a church service for a local organisation so missed it.
On the way home I bought some prosecco from one of our nice independent wine shops and I'll shortly spent the evening in the garden drinking it.
Are you coming to the Messiah in our local church next Saturday @puzzler, because if you are, I'll see you there.
Cooler than of late in Arkland the Dusty - just 72F, with an east-north-east breeze (forecast to blow continuously for the next week or so) - but feeling rather more humid.
Hence, maybe, my feeling of total wash-out fatigue...
Lunch was a nice Lasagne (a Co-Op special). I also found in the fridge a pair of Gammon Steaks which should, according to the label, have been eaten by yesterday (10th). I really don't want them today, but I don't want to throw them away, either - will they be OK if they stay in the fridge, and get pan-fried tomorrow?
Gammon's already sort of preserved, isn't it, being salted? I'd be surprised if one more day in the fridge did it any harm.
My plans for spending the weekend Eating, Drinking and Watching The Tennis are going nicely, having been only briefly interrupted for a haircut, and popping over to the butcher's to get some kebabs to take to my niece's barbecue tomorrow.
Supper was scampi and chips (procured after the ladies' singles was finished).
Agree that gammon shouldn't come to any harm sitting for another night.
I somehow slept all day today! Being on a hot bus/in a hot retail park yesterday was clearly exhausting. I need to find something Cooling for dinner (....probably ice cream) so I can take my meds and go back to bed.
This evening’s concert was enjoyable. Male voice choirs are not my thing but once in a while I enjoy them. My seat was catching the breeze between two open doors.
No @Sarasa, I won’t be coming to hear Messiah next weekend. I am sure it will be very good, but as I sing it every December, I can’t be doing with listening to it in July!
I have just eaten kedgeree from the freezer. I must see what else I can get out for tomorrow.
Still warm here today but with some fresh breeze. We’ve just been pottering around. Lunch was a very nice pear, borlotti bean and feta salad.
This evening we walked to a nearby village to visit their wine bar where we had charcuterie and cheese and a nice Barbera wine. We walked tipsily back, critiquing the architecture of the houses between the villages. We then sat out in the garden with Mochi, watching the bats but there weren’t many this evening. Perhaps they didn’t like the breeze?
I have been out this morning to pick up a chicken from the rotisserie. It was already 33° by time I came home. Captain P has had an outbreak of vomititis, probably due to the heat, although I think it's now so absurdly hot that we're not going to drink our tap water anymore without boiling it first. It's safe when it leaves the treatment centre, but it heats up so much in the pipes that it may not be by time it comes out of the tap.
Your evening sounds really wonderful @March Hare . St Beuno's is one of my favourite places in the world and I'm slightly envious of the sisters being there for the night. I must book myself a retreat for next year when my busy year is over and I have some time.
I've never been to St Beuno's but everyone I know who has speaks highly of it. Their retreats seem to get booked up a long way in advance, though.
Breakfast Church at Our Place this morning where we drank coffee, ate croissants, and Mr Nen channelled his inner royal nature by taking the part of King Melchizedek in a brief enactment of Genesis 14.
Still hot here but with a lively breeze. Hard to know whether to have windows open to catch the air movement or to close them to avoid hot air circulating round the house. At present we have done half and half - closed down on the south side of the house, opened up on the north.
27 degrees today and the blackberries are already ripening in the hedgerows. Mr Heavenly picks them on his way back from work and stores them in his water bottle. Yesterday he added them to yoghurt, cream and crumbled biscotti to make blackberry crumble ice cream.
Lunch today was bread, cheese, olives and houmous. Early to church this evening as Mr Heavenly is on set up duty.
Blackberries here in Yorkshire are a little later, but we are poised to pick them from over the back fence as our garden backs onto a railway line. Nice for the trains and blackberries, less so for the rats and bindweed!
We lived on a (near) island in Chichester Harbour for a couple of years in a sixties and there were blackberries at the bottom of our garden. I’m sure they belonged to the owner of woods, but as the whole area had been taken over by the RAF in the 1930s there wasn’t any trouble and we had all the fruit and jam we could be bothered with.
Absolutely gorgeous day here: about 20° with a wee bit of a breeze (although probably rather more in my niece's garden, which is a total sun trap). I had the wit to apply some sun lotion before going out in it, and it was mitigated by occasional sprays of water courtesy of the littlies, who were having fun in a paddling pool.
Altogether excellent afternoon, with good food, better company and copious drink.
Only caught the tail end of the tennis, which was a shame, but no matter.
Now feeling a tad woozy - may have an early night.
We lived on a (near) island in Chichester Harbour for a couple of years in a sixties and there were blackberries at the bottom of our garden. I’m sure they belonged to the owner of woods, but as the whole area had been taken over by the RAF in the 1930s there wasn’t any trouble and we had all the fruit and jam we could be bothered with.
The House Of My Youth had a very long, thin garden, the far end of which was more-or-less left to go wild. There were Blackberries in great profusion, and I still recall with fondness the wonderful Blackberry-and-Apple pies My Old Mum used to make.
I don't think she ever made Blackberry Jam, though.
I hope Captain Pyjamas is feeling more the ticket @la vie en rouge and the rest of the family hasn't succumbed as well.
Still warm, but much nicer with a cooling breeze. Today I headed off early to the north of the county for a civic service for a local dignitary. Unlike the service in our parish church yesterday, it was very low church and rathe chaotic (lots of Diet Coke on the carpet while trying to illustrate the parable of the sower and seeds for instance) but the minister is obviously a good chap and I got well and truly prayed for when I went up for a blessing. The local dignitary is a good chap too and a salutary lesson in not judging a book by its cover. I went straight from there to a couple of hours on our writing group's stand at our book festival. Not that many books sold, but a lot of people interested in maybe joining up. Finally we headed to city to the south for a memorial birthday pizza party for my dear T who died last year. As well as pizza there was some rather lovely early music (he was a baroque flute maker) and lots of catching up with old friends. We were both rather weary so didn't stay long, but so glad we went.
This coming week is much less busy and I'm looking forward to actually getting to my church and catching up on knitting and writing.
I saw the first ripe blackberries of the year before the end of June (took a photo to prove it). I don’t remember them being that early before. Blackcurrants were a fortnight earlier this year than last year.
I have also seen ripe blackberries out and about here!
The wind definitely helps makes things more comfortable. I'm keeping the window open and the blinds not entirely closed as a result, so the breeze can come in during the day.
@la vie en rouge hope the Captain feels better soon, what a rubbish situation to be in wrt the tap water. It feels ludicrous that a country like France would be having these issues in 2026.
A very pleasant breeze here. I ought to get some tedious housework done whilst it lasts.
My daughter is right now having some minor surgery on her hand. Some weeks ago now she got a splinter of sorts in a finger, or was it dirt in a cut, I can’t remember. It became infected and two lots of antibiotics didn’t cure it. Yesterday, on holiday in the Cotswolds it was very swollen and painful so she went to a walk-in centre who sent her to A & E. She opted to return home to our nearest A& E. They took bloods, did an x-ray, and made her an appointment to return for minor surgery this morning. Great service from the NHS.
She runs two holiday lets and does lots of cleaning and gardening, so her hands do get into all sorts as she rarely wears gloves. Why didn’t she stick to her original career in law?
Update on daughter. She was seen but has to go back for the actual surgery tomorrow or the next day. As it was considered urgent on Sunday this is not great.
A dreary, dusty, grey, gusty day in Arkland the Muggy, but at last some Sun-Shine is appearing. The bl**dy east wind is still blasting its way from Mordor, making my Ears tight, and my Head ache...
A bit windy and rather grey on my way to Pilates this morning but it turned into a nice warm, but not too warm day. Apart from Pilates I've had a lazy day. I have a pile of books from the weekend's book festival and I've been dipping in and out of those in between knitting and general slobbing.
I feel guilty saying it's a beautiful evening in West Lothian: warm but not too hot, with a cloudless sky. We're allegedly getting more of the same for the rest of the week; my nephew-in-law is threatening* another barbecue next weekend ... 🍾🍷
* apparently after I left, my sister, niece and a neighbour all got very tiddly, so it's probably as well I went home when I did! 🙃
Work was fairly quiet today: B is back from his holiday, and hasn't got into the swing of things yet, so I didn't feel too pressured.
Supper was a STEAK that I bought at the end of last week, along with some mushrooms and green beans and leftover coleslaw.
Yesterday, I managed to do a small amount of Paint Ing around the main access hatch of the Ark (the equivalent of the front door), and this afternoon I'll attempt to smarten up part of the adjacent deck - after Lunch, that is...
BF, you seem to be painting some part of your ark every week. Is it a kind of Forth Road Bridge?
Mind you, I gather that thanks to developments in paint technology the Forth Road Bridge itself is no longer a Forth Road Bridge.
@The Rogue Bishops Finger lives afloat and as a good sailor is always cleaning or painting ship. In the Royal Navy, most internal paint was chipped off and replaced pretty much continuously, because nobody wants an idle sailor.
Yesterday, I managed to do a small amount of Paint Ing around the main access hatch of the Ark (the equivalent of the front door), and this afternoon I'll attempt to smarten up part of the adjacent deck - after Lunch, that is...
BF, you seem to be painting some part of your ark every week. Is it a kind of Forth Road Bridge?
Mind you, I gather that thanks to developments in paint technology the Forth Road Bridge itself is no longer a Forth Road Bridge.
Actually, I think it was the older rail bridge that needed / needs continual painting.
Yes, it was the railway bridge that needed continual painting - my Ark is hardly as large, but I can only cope with a couple of square metres in one go! It's been a bit too hot and/or windy to do much lately, though.
ION, another hot and windy day in Arkland the Desiccated. Pilates has been survived (a gruelling session - the Torturer was quite apologetic), but protein in the form of STEAK is about to be consumed.
Today started grey and cool, and almost raining but it is now bright and sunny again.
This afternoon we had a treat, as the local history group had organised a tour of the old local government nuclear bunker, about a mile away, which is now owned by the university and is partially used to store some of the archaeology collection. We were shown a Roman sarcophagus, which I might make an appointment to look at again next year.
Another train journey home without air con this evening. London wasn't as unbearable as it has been, but still warmer than is reasonably comfortable.
Tonight's dinner shall consist of raw carrots and a refrigerated scotch egg, followed by about half a pint of yoghurt and a choc ice. Some days, I just really can't stand the thought of cooking.
I hope your daughter has had the surgery now @Puzzler and makes a speedy recovery.
The lively breeze is making things a lot more comfortable here at present; while watering the garden early this morning I was almost Chilly.
It's been a busy day with a couple of zooms and a friend of Mr Nen's came over for the afternoon and an early tea. I then went out for a bit and Mr Nen had an online meeting. He's now commandeered the television for watching the football.
A very nice day with not a lot happening, though I had a meeting this morning and we went for a walk to the almost countryside bit of town to the east after tea. Came home to water the garden and I've just watched The Great British Sewing Bee. Even though I had a nap this afternoon I'm feeling quite tired and will be heading for bed soon.
Thanks @Nenya, she was not called in today. There must have been greater emergencies. Let’s hope it is done tomorrow.
I’ve done a few jobs but haven’t achieved a lot today, although the weather has been more pleasant and I haven’t needed the fan.
U3a French will be chez moi ( at my house) next week and I have been devising some “end of term” word games as we have been discussing some rather serious topics recently. Actually I think we may continue throughout August. I hope so, as life gets a bit dull without the regular activities.
Daughter has not got an appointment for surgery today. Hopefully Friday! She owns two holidays lets, one next to her home and one in Norfolk, so she has popped over to Norfolk to do a changeover. She has been able to take her son to help. This must mean she knew she had a two day window, so there is a positive side to the delay.
No sunshine this morning. Good time to get the ironing done. Always more in summer, as I wear more cottons, and wash items more frequently.
Very sunny here in Watercress Land and has been for weeks, and seems to be continuing that way for weeks to come. Very jealous of those who have had cloud! It won't get below 30c here until Fri/Sat and won't start cooling down to the mid-20s til Sunday. But I now have a working toilet at least!
A functional toilet is indeed cause for rejoicing.
Our temperature has cooled down today. To 37°
37c is the highest we have had in Britain this summer in Norfolk. Mostly our really hot days have been about 30c, but anything over about 32c is too much for me now.
Still windy in Arkland the Damned, but at least the easterly Mordor-blast is keeping the temperature down to a reasonable 74F/24C.
I wish Sauron wouldn't eat so many Sprouts...
Anyway, feeling recovered somewhat from yesterday's Pilates session, I hied me to a rather deserted Tess Coe, only to discover that there is now a shortage of FISH CAKES .
O well. There is CHICKEN, and (for later) some more CHEESE.
I hope the surgery happens for your daughter this week @Puzzler .
Glad to hear about your restored and functional toilet @Pomona .
Gosh @la vie en rouge ... I don't know what to say about the heat you're currently enduring.
Here in the Wilds of Wiltshire we continue to enjoy the benefits of a lively breeze. The sun is still Very Hot (even early this morning while I was watering the garden I couldn't have stayed out in it) but the breeze is helping the temperatures in the house quite significantly - we have not seen over 30 degrees in here for a couple of days now, which is a relief.
After a Busy Day yesterday today is less packed and we are all about gearing up for the football game this evening. Not that I'll be watching it - I have a zoom at 8pm - but I'll be timing tea so that we can eat together and then I can escape before the stress and the beer-drinking starts.
Cloudy and quite cool first thing this morning though it's pretty warm again now. I headed over to an outlet store on the edge of town to the south for a mooch and ended up buying some trousers to go with a jacket I bought earlier in the year and another lightweight top. I hope that encourages the weather to cool down and that we have some rain.
I'm very much enjoying not having a lot on this week, though I do have two things for Saturday, one of which is some flood warning training. At the moment it really doesn't feel like I'll need it, but I have a horrible feeling the weather may flip this winter and we do get floods again.
My daily routine has changed due to the ongoing heat.
6am get up, put on yesterday's clothes. Then gardening and housework till 7:30. Walk the dog then shower and put on clean clothes. Followed by breakfast at 9am.
If I'm not going out after that it's gentle painting, reading, sorting photos, phoning family/friends etc.
I almost couldn’t be bothered but I did decide to go to the monthly u3a meeting with a speaker. He was an entrepreneur who has worked in many countries. A man from a very different world, setting up companies to start up projects, making and losing a fortune and rebuilding his life. A great raconteur.
On a whim I bought a raffle ticket for the first time and won £10. I don’t normally do raffles. I also found some old friends from my former church to chat to, so I am glad I went.
I headed over to an outlet store on the edge of town to the south for a mooch and ended up buying some trousers to go with a jacket I bought earlier in the year and another lightweight top. I hope that encourages the weather to cool down and that we have some rain.
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No, that's not likely to work.
You need to buy a couple of flimsy sundresses and a bikini to get the weather you are asking for.
Friend came up from The Borders this morning to help with the garden. I've not been in it since March. It's only in the last few days the chemozonk has retreated sufficiently to consider it. Entrance almost blocked by overgrown hedge and clumps of poppy and aquilegia, grass 2 ft high, gravel corner covered in sow thistle and green alkanet, bindweed rampaging over the fence from next door, planting either dead or prospering according to its tolerance to neglect and drought.
Several hours hard work - mainly by friend - and it's a mown hayfield bordered by a lorra weeds - but looking quite good from a distance.
Hopefully I'll get in some more tidying over the weekend before next surgery on Tuesday.
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My cake did not get eaten! Well only a couple of pieces, so it has come home. There were too many cakes and several fruit cakes like mine.
I am taking it upon myself to write up all the ins and outs of the day. It was well run, but two major committee members, Secretary and Treasurer, are retiring and so much detail of the running of events is in people’s heads. It needs a list. Our Chair has no interest in that sort of thing. She did not even get up and publicly thank our MD at the end.
I am going to a Male Voice Choir concert tonight at my own church, a fund raising event. It is a shame I have to drive as there is Wine. Another concert tomorrow afternoon too in the next village.
We covered our two big front windows (south facing) with sheets on the outside before we went out but it doesn't seem to have made a huge difference to the temperatures in the house.
Stir fry for tea later. Probably quite a bit later. Too hot to even think about cooking at present.
I had a very interesting day, talking up my writing group in a bookshop as part of our festival celebrations, followed by lunch in a local art gallery for the launch of an exhibition. Diane Abbot was there as she was doing a book talk later in the afternoon but I had to go off to a church service for a local organisation so missed it.
On the way home I bought some prosecco from one of our nice independent wine shops and I'll shortly spent the evening in the garden drinking it.
Are you coming to the Messiah in our local church next Saturday @puzzler, because if you are, I'll see you there.
Hence, maybe, my feeling of total wash-out fatigue...
Lunch was a nice Lasagne (a Co-Op special). I also found in the fridge a pair of Gammon Steaks which should, according to the label, have been eaten by yesterday (10th). I really don't want them today, but I don't want to throw them away, either - will they be OK if they stay in the fridge, and get pan-fried tomorrow?
I'll give them a go tomorrow...
My plans for spending the weekend Eating, Drinking and Watching The Tennis are going nicely, having been only briefly interrupted for a haircut, and popping over to the butcher's to get some kebabs to take to my niece's barbecue tomorrow.
Supper was scampi and chips (procured after the ladies' singles was finished).
I somehow slept all day today! Being on a hot bus/in a hot retail park yesterday was clearly exhausting. I need to find something Cooling for dinner (....probably ice cream) so I can take my meds and go back to bed.
No @Sarasa, I won’t be coming to hear Messiah next weekend. I am sure it will be very good, but as I sing it every December, I can’t be doing with listening to it in July!
I have just eaten kedgeree from the freezer. I must see what else I can get out for tomorrow.
This evening we walked to a nearby village to visit their wine bar where we had charcuterie and cheese and a nice Barbera wine. We walked tipsily back, critiquing the architecture of the houses between the villages. We then sat out in the garden with Mochi, watching the bats but there weren’t many this evening. Perhaps they didn’t like the breeze?
Back to sitting indoors under the air con.
I've never been to St Beuno's but everyone I know who has speaks highly of it. Their retreats seem to get booked up a long way in advance, though.
Breakfast Church at Our Place this morning where we drank coffee, ate croissants, and Mr Nen channelled his inner royal nature by taking the part of King Melchizedek in a brief enactment of Genesis 14.
Still hot here but with a lively breeze. Hard to know whether to have windows open to catch the air movement or to close them to avoid hot air circulating round the house. At present we have done half and half - closed down on the south side of the house, opened up on the north.
Lunch today was bread, cheese, olives and houmous. Early to church this evening as Mr Heavenly is on set up duty.
I eschewed cooking the out-of-date Gammon Steaks, and had a nice piece of cold Chicken instead, with some Potato Salad, and some Green Salad.
Altogether excellent afternoon, with good food, better company and copious drink.
Only caught the tail end of the tennis, which was a shame, but no matter.
Now feeling a tad woozy - may have an early night.
The House Of My Youth had a very long, thin garden, the far end of which was more-or-less left to go wild. There were Blackberries in great profusion, and I still recall with fondness the wonderful Blackberry-and-Apple pies My Old Mum used to make.
I don't think she ever made Blackberry Jam, though.
Still warm, but much nicer with a cooling breeze. Today I headed off early to the north of the county for a civic service for a local dignitary. Unlike the service in our parish church yesterday, it was very low church and rathe chaotic (lots of Diet Coke on the carpet while trying to illustrate the parable of the sower and seeds for instance) but the minister is obviously a good chap and I got well and truly prayed for when I went up for a blessing. The local dignitary is a good chap too and a salutary lesson in not judging a book by its cover. I went straight from there to a couple of hours on our writing group's stand at our book festival. Not that many books sold, but a lot of people interested in maybe joining up. Finally we headed to city to the south for a memorial birthday pizza party for my dear T who died last year. As well as pizza there was some rather lovely early music (he was a baroque flute maker) and lots of catching up with old friends. We were both rather weary so didn't stay long, but so glad we went.
This coming week is much less busy and I'm looking forward to actually getting to my church and catching up on knitting and writing.
* not an actual musical term, but how David used to describe music that was loud and raucous.
The wind definitely helps makes things more comfortable. I'm keeping the window open and the blinds not entirely closed as a result, so the breeze can come in during the day.
@la vie en rouge hope the Captain feels better soon, what a rubbish situation to be in wrt the tap water. It feels ludicrous that a country like France would be having these issues in 2026.
My daughter is right now having some minor surgery on her hand. Some weeks ago now she got a splinter of sorts in a finger, or was it dirt in a cut, I can’t remember. It became infected and two lots of antibiotics didn’t cure it. Yesterday, on holiday in the Cotswolds it was very swollen and painful so she went to a walk-in centre who sent her to A & E. She opted to return home to our nearest A& E. They took bloods, did an x-ray, and made her an appointment to return for minor surgery this morning. Great service from the NHS.
She runs two holiday lets and does lots of cleaning and gardening, so her hands do get into all sorts as she rarely wears gloves. Why didn’t she stick to her original career in law?
O well. There is CHEESE.
* apparently after I left, my sister, niece and a neighbour all got very tiddly, so it's probably as well I went home when I did! 🙃
Work was fairly quiet today: B is back from his holiday, and hasn't got into the swing of things yet, so I didn't feel too pressured.
Supper was a STEAK that I bought at the end of last week, along with some mushrooms and green beans and leftover coleslaw.
BF, you seem to be painting some part of your ark every week. Is it a kind of Forth Road Bridge?
Mind you, I gather that thanks to developments in paint technology the Forth Road Bridge itself is no longer a Forth Road Bridge.
ION, another hot and windy day in Arkland the Desiccated. Pilates has been survived (a gruelling session - the Torturer was quite apologetic), but protein in the form of STEAK is about to be consumed.
This afternoon we had a treat, as the local history group had organised a tour of the old local government nuclear bunker, about a mile away, which is now owned by the university and is partially used to store some of the archaeology collection. We were shown a Roman sarcophagus, which I might make an appointment to look at again next year.
Tonight's dinner shall consist of raw carrots and a refrigerated scotch egg, followed by about half a pint of yoghurt and a choc ice. Some days, I just really can't stand the thought of cooking.
More salads* for supper: like Sipech, I didn't feel like cooking.
* one of which slipped from my hand as I was putting it back in the fridge, so there's rather less of it than there was ...
The lively breeze is making things a lot more comfortable here at present; while watering the garden early this morning I was almost Chilly.
It's been a busy day with a couple of zooms and a friend of Mr Nen's came over for the afternoon and an early tea. I then went out for a bit and Mr Nen had an online meeting. He's now commandeered the television for watching the football.
I’ve done a few jobs but haven’t achieved a lot today, although the weather has been more pleasant and I haven’t needed the fan.
U3a French will be chez moi ( at my house) next week and I have been devising some “end of term” word games as we have been discussing some rather serious topics recently. Actually I think we may continue throughout August. I hope so, as life gets a bit dull without the regular activities.
No sunshine this morning. Good time to get the ironing done. Always more in summer, as I wear more cottons, and wash items more frequently.
Very sunny here in Watercress Land and has been for weeks, and seems to be continuing that way for weeks to come. Very jealous of those who have had cloud! It won't get below 30c here until Fri/Sat and won't start cooling down to the mid-20s til Sunday. But I now have a working toilet at least!
Our temperature has cooled down today. To 37°
37c is the highest we have had in Britain this summer in Norfolk. Mostly our really hot days have been about 30c, but anything over about 32c is too much for me now.
I wish Sauron wouldn't eat so many Sprouts...
Anyway, feeling recovered somewhat from yesterday's Pilates session, I hied me to a rather deserted
O well. There is CHICKEN, and (for later) some more CHEESE.
Glad to hear about your restored and functional toilet @Pomona .
Gosh @la vie en rouge ... I don't know what to say about the heat you're currently enduring.
Here in the Wilds of Wiltshire we continue to enjoy the benefits of a lively breeze. The sun is still Very Hot (even early this morning while I was watering the garden I couldn't have stayed out in it) but the breeze is helping the temperatures in the house quite significantly - we have not seen over 30 degrees in here for a couple of days now, which is a relief.
After a Busy Day yesterday today is less packed and we are all about gearing up for the football game this evening. Not that I'll be watching it - I have a zoom at 8pm - but I'll be timing tea so that we can eat together and then I can escape before the stress and the beer-drinking starts.
I'm very much enjoying not having a lot on this week, though I do have two things for Saturday, one of which is some flood warning training. At the moment it really doesn't feel like I'll need it, but I have a horrible feeling the weather may flip this winter and we do get floods again.
6am get up, put on yesterday's clothes. Then gardening and housework till 7:30. Walk the dog then shower and put on clean clothes. Followed by breakfast at 9am.
If I'm not going out after that it's gentle painting, reading, sorting photos, phoning family/friends etc.
I'm getting used to it but I'm tired by 9pm!
On a whim I bought a raffle ticket for the first time and won £10. I don’t normally do raffles. I also found some old friends from my former church to chat to, so I am glad I went.
You need to buy a couple of flimsy sundresses and a bikini to get the weather you are asking for.
Several hours hard work - mainly by friend - and it's a mown hayfield bordered by a lorra weeds - but looking quite good from a distance.
Hopefully I'll get in some more tidying over the weekend before next surgery on Tuesday.