Bright and breezy ....

18th June 2022 (Saturday)      06.30 ....We have a ‘bright and breezy start’ to


the day;  and the weather is much the same... though cool.    This is going to be a ‘lazy day’:  I’ll finish the table, potter around the garden and Hutte, and generally relax.   Oh this is good news;   a jar of “Queen Catherine’s” Somerset honey arrived by post, and Irene brought round some pieces of a goodie that she made.  I start my morning with a teaspoonful of Somerset honey from Emily and John’s hives and a piece of Irene’s delicacy. The goodie (I think) is called “15’s”.... ‘cos there’s fifteen ingredients in the mixtures.   Mwahh xx.... what a lovely way to start a day: In fact I’m thinking of getting the bike out after breakfast... and once the air warms up a bit.


09.45    Hmmmm .... it’s windier (F5-6 on the water), and therefore cooler, than I thought it was going to be so the bike will, like me, be staying around Ivy;  if the wind moderates later in the afternoon I may go out.   In the meantime I think another teaspoonful of Somerset honey is called foe.... followed by a cuppa.   I have wee bits to do to the table so I’ll do that before washing the floors.    It’s a good drying day....albeit a cool one.

21.00    It was a good drying day right enough.... we had some frisky gusts o’ wind.   Anyway the washing dried, the floors dried;  and the table is finished.   I just have to tidy up the corner and sort out a couple o’ chairs.

Shona dropped in just after lunch (she had been at the shops in Elie), so we had a cuppa and blether in The Hutte.   Shona is suffering from hay fever just now;  the pollen levels are high at this time of year.    The forecast for pollen is ‘Medium’ tomorrow.... and ‘High’ on Monday.   Quiet time ahead for the ‘boy’ I’m thinkin’.  

I had hope that the wind would drop away to practically nothing, but that does not look

Garden table.

like ‘appening;  so nae bike this evening.    It has been a breezy (and cool) day;  most of which I spent in the garden and the Hutte.  

I saw on the weather forecast that ‘Sunny Sussex’ is going to be cooler tomorrow;  something like 15 degrees cooler.   That’s a big change.   Luckily we don’t have to cope with that sort of change in Bonnie Scotland!

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