Well, that was nice while it lasted. The Indian Summer, I mean. I had been hoping for a prolonged affair – perhaps two or three months but I guess that’s just being greedy. But something longer than two or three days would have been nice. As it is we’ve had an Arctic Plume over the UK for the latter part of this week and, while it’s not exactly freezing, it is certainly feeling very autumnal. Would it be too much to ask for another couple of weeks in October?
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20 September 2020
It’s been a good week – the weather has been very kind. The sun has shone and the temperature has been very acceptable. This may or may not be the Indian Summer I was hoping for – we’ll have to wait and see.
13 September 2020
It’s been a fair week with decent enough weather – a bit overcast on the whole but the sun has managed to peak through a few times. Still feels very autumnal, I’m afraid but I continue to hold out hope for a prolonged Indian summer.
Continue reading “13 September 2020”6 September 2020
Is that the summer we see disappearing into the rear-view mirror? It’s been a cool and decidedly autumnal week and we fear, unless we get a glorious Indian summer, we could be declining into the coming winter’s hibernation long before we’re ready.
Continue reading “6 September 2020”30 August 2020
We could do with more Scorcio and less Blowio and Wettio! It’s been a miserable week – Storm Francis blew through with gale force winds and lashings and lashings of rain. Now, the weather has pivoted and we’re sucking in cold winds from the Arctic with temperatures more akin to late November or December. The forecasters are suggesting that Monday, the August Bank Holiday, could be the coldest on record. Freezio!
Continue reading “30 August 2020”23 August 2020
Non-Scorcio Maximo! Wild and windy instead!
We’ve had what must be considered to have been a very busy week given the continuing restrictions on all our lives. We were out for a lovely walk early in the week, we joined the Eat Out to Help Out brigade, visited (separately) with two very lovely good friends and put ourselves through the wringer that is the annual village horticultural jamboree. Phew!
Continue reading “23 August 2020”16 August 2020
Scorcio Maximo! Wow, it’s been a hot, hot week. Wednesday it was up to 37o in Moreton Pinkney-on-sea (98.6o Fahrenheit for those who prefer old money). Thankfully, it began to cool down on Thursday and we were under an Amber warning for thunderstorms and showers – a month’s worth of rain in an hour. Sadly, all we got was a bit of a smattering while seemingly everywhere else received their full deluge. Oh well, at least the sunflowers were spared another battering.
Continue reading “16 August 2020”9 August 2020
Phew – Scorcio!
Another very pleasant week and then another scorching heatwave for the weekend – lovely if it weren’t for all those brainless zombies who flock to the crowded beaches to spread Covid-19 amongst themselves. Continue reading “9 August 2020”
2 August 2020
Phew – Scorcio! After a perfectly reasonable start to the week, Thursday and Friday were blazing hot – glorious from my perspective but too hot for a lot of the villagers who were on the verge of melting on Friday afternoon (33o Celsius, 91o in old money). Not to worry though – on Saturday things returned to “normal” – only 22o, a lovely 70o Fahrenheit. Continue reading “2 August 2020”
26 July 2020
We’re back! And back into our self-imposed isolation as far as possible. We had an absolutely marvellous four days in Yorkshire with reasonably good weather and visited lots of great places. There is so much to see and do in Yorkshire, we’ll have to go back again. Continue reading “26 July 2020”