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19 April 2026

Another great and busy week! And, we don’t have any visitors – how can we still be busy now that all of our houseguests have gone?

It’s been another great and busy week – what are the chances of that? We’ve had family walks, family dinners, a theatre outing, a visit to Coton Manor and generally just a marvellously great time. And the weather has been even better than “decent” – warm and sunny most of the time.

5 April 2026

It’s been a great and busy week! Ben, Brex-Anna and Max arrived last Saturday for Spring Break and it’s been full-on ever since. They’re parked up in a lovely little cottage in the village of Eydon, just up the road and we’ve had a number of get-togethers and outings with more to come.

29 March 2026

It’s been a pretty meh kind of week – the weather wasn’t great but it wasn’t terrible – a bit of rain, a bit of sun, some cold days, some not so cold days. And, to continue in that vein, our week has been pretty meh as well. Dropped the campervan over for its annual service and inspection, had a visit from the plumber to resolve a couple of relatively minor issues and collected the van again. Wow! The excitement has been positively underwhelming.

22 March 2026

It’s been a pretty decent sort of week – sunshine! We had clear and sunny skies most of the week with tolerably acceptable temperatures. Indeed, we got up to 19^o on Tuesday (about 66^o Fahrenheit). So warm and sunny that we had to open the bi-fold doors! Scorcio!

15 March 2026

It’s been a week. The weather’s been mixed, some nice sunny spells and some cold and biting wind. Indeed, a howling gale one night but thankfully, not too much rain. Penelope’s croquet lawn has had two mowings already! This is way too early to start that grinding routine. And, it goes on forever! Damn this climate change.

8 March 2026

Oops! Once again, no news is good news – we’re away (again) this weekend so not able to put anything meaningful together. A brief summary of this week’s activities will have to suffice. Sorry.

1 March 2026

It’s been a surprisingly half-decent week. I know! What are the chances of that? We had less rain this week (although there’s still plenty more than we need at the moment) and even a few spells of modest sunshine. I am assured by people who know about these sorts of things that Spring will eventually arrive.

22 February 2026

Another wet week – who could have imagined that there was this much water in the skies? We did have some sunshine on Tuesday but it didn’t last long, just long enough for folks to wander outside and scratch their heads in bewilderment at this strange atmospheric phenomenon. One of our lovely neighbours said the rain was supposed to continue for another month. You cannot be serious.

15 February 2026

We saw the sun this week. To be fair, we actually saw it twice this week, once on Thursday morning for about 20 minutes. The clouds were a glorious reddish-pinkish shade with a little glimmer of blue sky as the sunshine came down in shafts of light. Didn’t last, of course. More rain and mud until Saturday which, for some reason, dawned bright, sunny and cloud-free. Don’t worry, the forecast for today is back to “normal.”

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