News – Page 28 – The Moreton Pinkney Picayune

9 May 2021

It’s been an “interesting” week – very cold for the time of year, the weather people keep telling me. I know! There’ve been a couple of fairly sunny days accompanied by a chill wind which makes stopping indoors and huddling in front of the fire probably the best idea. Still, I did get out on the road for a couple of rides, one in the delightful company of our Nick.

2 May 2021

Whew, it’s been a chilly, chilly week, especially after the relative balminess of the week before. The frostiest April in 60 years, so the BBC tells me. We’ve had a bit of rain but we need more – lots of showers about but most of them seem to have evaded our back garden. I just hope the frost doesn’t whack the blossom on the fruit trees.

25 April 2021

It’s been a pretty decent week. Some lovely sunny skies, fresh in the mornings but not altogether unpleasant as the sun warms things up. The blossom’s on the trees in the orchard, the tulips are showing nicely, the aubrietia round the patio is lovely, the forget-me-nots are springing up demanding that you don’t forget them and Penelope’s woodland garden is already looking splendid with lots more to come! Isn’t spring a magnificently exciting time of year?

18 April 2021

It’s been mainly cold bordering on Arctic-like for much of the week although when the sun does break through the clouds the warmth it imparts could persuade you that spring cannot be far away. Even so, we’ve had snow flurries this week on a couple of occasions for goodness’ sake and a neighbour shared the following photograph of a frozen stack of water on Brook Street in the village.

11 April 2021

Wow! What an exciting week. As mentioned briefly last time, we had our first post “irreversible” unlockdown catch-up with Nick, Lucy and Annabelle on Saturday and Adam, Ava and Jessie on Sunday. The weather wasn’t great – too bad as we had to spend all of it out of doors! Cold and overcast on Saturday, cold but at least intermittently sunny on Sunday.

4 April 2021

Hurray! It’s all over. We’ve entered the first phase of the “irreversible” unlocking of life in the UK, the first steps on the road to recovery and the sunlight uplands of post-Brexit global Britain! I hope their “irreversible” unlocking doesn’t go the same way as the “world-beating” Test and Trace or the “world-beating” Covid tracking app.

Fingers crossed, I guess?

28 March 2021

Another mixed week – on the chilly and windy side much of the time, a smattering of rain from time to time as well as some sunny spells hinting at warmer days to come. Now that we’ve passed the equinox, the daylight hours are beginning to stretch the day out and the birds are more active and vocal than ever. A neighbour shared this on the village Facebook page:

21 March 2021

A mixed bag this week – good day, bad day, good day, bad day. Wind, rain, hail, sunshine, repeat. The wind and rain kept us largely confined to quarters; the sunshine tempted Penelope out into the garden and me out on my bike.

14 March 2021

What a wacky week! The weather’s been almost completely awful – Tuesday was a half-decent day with some blue sky and sunshine but the rest of the week has been dire. Lashings and lashings of rain and gale force winds which have sounded, at times, as if the roof was being ripped off and deposited in a neighbouring county.

7 March 2021

After one (or two) very promising days last week with sunshine and relatively warm temperatures, this week it has been “back to normal.” It’s been cold, grey, damp and dismal! C’est la guerre.