It rained overnight (7mm) and is overcast today, can’t even see the escarpment.
Had a phone call from my specialist this morning bringing my appointment forward a day, doesn’t worry me one day is as good as an other.
Because of the inclement weather have only briefly ventured out of the house but the rain is a good thing, it is either feast or famine here, after the garden being boggy last month the soil has completely dried out as last night was the first rain for several weeks.
Actually I just remembered I have to ring the leagues club to organise payment for the seniors club lunch at the end of the month.
Good morning - A drop in temperature is forecast for today but no rain. I’ll be going to the allotment this morning to help out. Our son goes there Tuesdays as well, so it’s a chance to see him and make sure all is well.
Our daughter will be travelling down from the North today, laden with some good quality pork pies . As mentioned before, you can’t buy pies like them around here. She will be staying with our son who lives locally.
We’re driving to Chessington this afternoon to see about buying a new power wheelchair. It’s our nearest place since a more local showroom shut up shop.
Good morning everyone. It looks as if it will be another hot day, although the forecast suggests that it won’t be quite so hot as yesterday by a few degrees, thank goodness!
After the dog walk I shall visit the supermarket for my weekly shop. The last time I shopped on a hot day it was positively Arctic in Waitrose - talk about sublime to ridiculous - hopefully they will have sorted out the temperature in there today, a happy medium is all I ask.
Apart from the shopping I have nothing else planned, I’ll just go with the flow.
Yesterday was too much! went walking to the pharmacy at 4ish, problem with prescription, went to the GP clinic, got it sorted out hopefully, back home, I had to take a shower! Then Mrs d00d sat outside, in the shade and she too got a shower. She’s never been so caught-out before, then flashes of lightning.
I don’t know what today brings, I’m currently awaiting a delivery, then may or may not get my hair cut.
Morning all – another bright sunshiny morning, forecast is for it to be cooler today, only 24c – I note that others were also wiped out by yesterday’s heat! I don’t think it is the heat as much as the humidity we get In UK
Didn’t get to the shops yesterday so that has to be done today. I did get the laundry done and ironed but it is yet to be put away!
Don’t seem to have much enthusiasm for anything so this may be yet another lazy day
morn all
my cold is still with me but managed to get a nearly decent nights sleep last night
strangely with this hot weather my frozen shoulder problem has eased off a lot, so maybe heat is the answer? at the moment too exhausted to do much ,
Good Morning from Foxy’s World…
Set off early for my walk/jog but after a couple of laboured jogs my heart, or my legs, weren’t feeling the love, so I gave jogging up as a bad job and walked the rest of the three and a half mile route. Anyway, it was a nice sunny and quiet morning. I think yesterdays 15 mile cycle ride was still in my legs…
I’d just started walking on the main road and spotted this, in almost the exact same place as the burst water main last week…
There was an ambulance parked just round the corner, so the driver must have must have had some kind of medical issue or been injured. Fingers crossed it was nothing serious.
I added an extra half mile on my three mile walk a couple of weeks ago and it’s making a good contrast to walking alongside the canal out in the country. It’s a large bungalow estate on the other side of the village. And although it’s quite suburban, it’s uncannily quiet at seven in the morning with hardly any traffic or people out in their gardens. It doesn’t sound very enjoyable at first glance, I didn’t even think that I would like walking around the houses, but it’s so peaceful and when you think that in just a few hours time when the residents have woken up, it will be bustling…Well! almost…
All the streets are named after poets, Burns, Browning, Coleridge, and Herrick?
I know…
I didn’t know who ‘Herrick’ was so I had to look him up…
And who knows…It might even bring some culture to this 74 year old pit village reprobate…
Good morning all, hope it’s not too hot for you, I heard the UK was having particularly high temperatures.
I really enjoyed a shopping spree with my daughter this morning, in a wonderfully air-conditioned shopping centre, it was pure bliss walking around.
A lovely mother/daughter outing, even if when we got into the car at 1pm to return home, it was 40C.
Sweated even with the car air-conditioning on, but it was worth it.
She’ll be going back up North next Sunday.
I hope the van driver’s OK @OldGreyFox, that scene doesn’t look good.
Good morning from the land of cicadas! Supposedly this will be a record-breaking year for them, but I love it; they are the soundtrack of my childhood summers.
OGF, that looks like an unlikely spot for an accident, so I hope the driver is ok. Most accidents like that around here are drivers looking at cell phones. I hope that is not the case here. What a picturesque area! The only thing that would hint that this is the UK and not the US (aside from the fact that you still don’t have your problem solved about driving on the wrong side of the road is that front yards here tend to be grassy lawns that extend to the curb with an island of grass between the sidewalk and the curb. I think we spend more time on lawns and you all spend more time, and put us to shame, with your flower gardens. That was quite an outing!
My run was unusually exciting this morning! About a mile in, I encountered a nest of sea turtles boiling. In a fury of activity hatchlings, usually 75-125 climb out of the nest together and that collective motion prevents sand collapsing back on top of them. Another walker saw it too and called in the report to the state wildlife organization, who sent out a team to monitor the nest. It’s illegal for us to go near nests or interfere with hatchlings in any way, so we were glad that a team was sent quickly. It always stirs my heart that with no maternal care, they are absolutely driven to the water where they go it alone. It’s an extraordinary thing to witness:
Stay safe from the weather and have a very nice day!
Welcome from me and others. A late afternoon for me. We had a lomgish walk with our wee dog in the early morning - it avoids heat later on. Then I had to had a morning visit for the doctors visit. Then the local store for some supplied. The made made some new some wooden frames. And that was that - too warm/hot.
Didn’t anyone tell the van driver he can’t park there. how on earth did he manage that on a dead straight road I wonder.
All this sun makes one lazy, I even looked out my bilini but could only find the top half. Oh and I see you can get swimsuits that dissolve in water. How embarrasing that would be
I thought the same about accident Surfermom, I wondered if it had been a police chase (not unusual round here these days) or it could have been a Heart Attack at the wheel, or just fallen to sleep and left the road. The police car was empty, so I expect the policeman was in the ambulance interviewing the driver. Interestingly, as I continued along the road there was a high powered BMW parked in a layby. Possibly an unmarked police car…It will probably be reported in the local paper next week, I’ll keep you posted of developments…
Some of the new housing estates are what we call ‘Open Plan’ where the lawn extends to the footpath like the ones you described Surfer. Us Brits usually have flowers to the front, and lawns to the rear of the property where they would sunbathe or have a barbeque etc…Bungalows are not popular these days because they take up too much land, and houses are crammed together without much of a garden at all…
I’ve sent a strongly worded letter to Keir Starmer explaining your concerns about us driving on the wrong side of the road Surfer…
Morning awl ! Strolled along the Roman Roman. Later we had the hairdresser here and a couple of friends.
And a little bit of a surprise…we have a small pool and we thought the little dog might enjoy it. Not a bit of it. So we gave it away for one of the kids on our street. Seemed the right thing to do.
Except…
A neighbour nicked it within five minutes, an old fellow and not one of the children…
Good Morning from Foxy’s Gaff…
Rest day today with just the Tesco shop, which was completed by 8:30 am.
Overnight rain but none forecast for the rest of the day, so like Donald Trump, I’m going to sort out my borders…(Garden)…
. As mentioned before, you can’t buy pies like them around here. She will be staying with our son who lives locally.
I don’t think it is the heat as much as the humidity we get In UK
Herrick Herrick was his real name Derek?
is that front yards here tend to be grassy lawns that extend to the curb with an island of grass between the sidewalk and the curb. I think we spend more time on lawns and you all spend more time, and put us to shame, with your flower gardens. That was quite an outing!
