Gorgeous morning ....
6th
May 2020 (Wednesday) 09.30 ..... When I go up for the paper
there’s
usually only a smirr of a breeze
and it’s swarm in the early sunshine.:
by the time I get back home the breeze has freshened and its cauld on
the lugs and hands .... it looks like it’s going to be a lovely day and really warm when
out of the wind. I might go out on the
bike again in the afternoon, but this is going to be a ‘rest day’.... I shall bumble around Ivy most of the day. The forecast is for sunshine all day with a high temperature of 16c (in the shade)... so probably 18c in Ivy garden.
15.00 Dearie me;
I’ve had to give up working outside... it’s 16c in the shade and I am
not in the shade so it must be about 20c;
it’s so hot that I had an attack of the ‘mauchless’ (which is why I am
inside Ivy typing this). When I was out
in New Zealand (at ‘M’s) I had the ‘mauchless’ fairly regularly in the middle
of the day; but to have ‘the mauchless’
in Bonnie Scotland is rare indeed.
Where ‘M’ stays (Otaki) it is one hot place .... even in winter; ‘M’ thinks it’s cauld when the temperature
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The
kettle will be boiling so I’m orf to have a cuppa (and probably ‘50’) before
doing a wee bit more work.
19.00 It has been a bonnie day.... and tomorrow
and Friday are forecast to be much
the same:
in fact the East coast is going to be warmer due to a high pressure
system and therefore hardly any wind.
It all changes at the weekend when high pressure moves away, with the
wind veering to the North and it turns much colder. I have enjoyed myself today and intend to
keep on working on the cacti for the next couple of days; there is much to do and it’s a delicate
job.... even with thick gloves. I
might run out of cactus compost that’s the only problem.
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