News – Page 26 – The Moreton Pinkney Picayune

10 October 2021

Wednesday was one of those “Oh my gosh. What a glorious day!” kind of days. Bright, bright blue skies with wispy clouds drifting along on a gentle breeze on a pleasantly warm Autumnal day with bright, crisp sunshine. Such a beautiful day it makes you want to stop and enjoy it. So, I did.

3 October 2021

It’s been a pretty decent week, I suppose – thanks for asking. The weather has been changeable to be sure – we had a deluge of a downpour on Sunday night/Monday morning and it’s been considerably cooler of late. Apparently, the temperature is now more in line with general expectations for the time of year – I guess we’ve just been spoiled of late. In short, it’s been windy and fresh with a decidedly autumnal feeling. Downhill from here, I guess.

26 September 2021

It’s been a pretty decent week – some sunny weather, an outing to the theatre with our eldest grandchild, a couple of decent bike rides (on the road as opposed to “virtually”) and a weekend away with friends. Yep, pretty decent.

19 September 2021

Well, that was a lot of fun but, sadly, we are slowly having to adjust to “normal” now that Ben, Brex-Anna and Max have returned to LA after a two-and-a-half-week visit. It seems remarkably quiet around here – no one is playing trains on the kitchen floor in the mornings.

12 September 2021

Wow! What a great week – a continuing visit with some very special people, a few outings, some really nice weather (up until Friday anyway), a couple of winning entries at the annual Morton Pinkney Horticultural show and an astonishingly great home-cooked meal with the whole famn damily! What more could anyone possibly want?

5 September 2021

And, we’re back. But only in a limited capacity, I’m afraid. The Editor thinks he’s still on holiday and the staff . . . Don’t get me started. Ever since Brexit we’ve faced a shortage of essential staff, empty super market shelves and lousy weather.

15 August 2021

A tolerably tolerable week. We’ve had some decent enough sunshine with pleasingly pleasant temperatures, some rain and drizzle, some light breezes but nothing too extreme in either direction. Seems fair to me.

8 August 2021

A good week on the whole. Some reasonably decent weather to begin but the weekend brought another batch of wind and rain interspersed with the occasional sunny spell. Hey ho, it’s what an English summer is all about.

1 August 2021

After endless weeks and months of lockdown, it’s been an extraordinarily busy week. We explored a “new” (to us) walk, had a visitor come to visit, undertook an outing up to the big city, and enjoyed a lovely evening with village friends for cocktails, canapes and croquet. If this is what Freedom from Covid restrictions is going to be like, I am not going to be able to stand the pace.

25 July 2021

Scorcio, scorcio, scorcio! Temperatures have been up in the high 20s/low 30s (low to high 80s) all week which, as I said last time, is pretty unusual around here. The Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning for much of the country, Moreton Pinkney included. We’re used to flood warnings and storm and gale warnings but never an extreme heat warning.