Cloudy ....

3rd June 2026 (Wednesday)     09.00 .... We have a a quiet, cloudy, start to the day;  and heavy

showers forecast, with the chance of thunder.    It doesn't look like being a good drying day..... and I have one sheet to wash.    Friday looks more promising as a drying day,   Today's plan? .....  make an appointment to get my haircut;  it's beginning to bother me.

10.15    Haircut organised (12.00), and the last piece of bedding (sheet) in the washing machine.   I don't expect it will be out on the line today, but I'll see what the weather is doing later;  at the moment it's cloudy, but not raining.

14.30    The rain showers have been with us since 11.30, with very short intervals between showers:  in fact I's say we've had one long shower, of varying intensity, since 11.30.   It's wet!   

I feel much better now that I've had a haircut;  in fact I feel better almost 'bright eyed and bushy tailed'.  Vicky  (Woodcock) was at Lorraine's, and told me that today was the Friendship Lunch in the Kirk Hall;  so, after my haircut, I set off to the Kirk Hall;  looking forward to seeing everyone again.    

However, the parking situation at the Kirk Hall is not the best, and the nearest place I found was on Woodside Road:  too far for me to walk in the rain (at the speed I now walk at).   If it hadn't been raining it would have been fine, but the rain was heavy at the time.   I went home and made a chicken  sandwich.   It wasn't the same as it would have been in the Kirk Hall;  but it was tasty.   And I was hungry.

20.00    Since the rain stopped in the afternoon we've had some good sunny spells;  and we now have a bonnie end to mostly damp day.    I began cleaning the inside of the bedroom window.    'JB' and I did a shopping a year ago that included purchasing cleaning 'stuff', and I still have an abundance of different cleaning cloths, sponges.... and 'squirty stuff ', for every known surface in Ivy.... and anywhere else.  No shortage of equipment to do the job;  just the will to get started!   That said I am feeling better, and looking forward to shaking off the winter ailments at last!    We just need a decent spell of summer weather to do that.

22.30   My thoughts and prayers tonight are with the families and friends, of the three Fleet Air Arm

Personnel killed in the horrendous helicopter crash in Devon.   We tend to take our Servicemen and Women for granted, and in the background of our lives;  until an accident such as this happens,to , sadly, remind us of the dedication and sacrifice, that they make on our behalf to protect our freedom and democracy.   

I am also thinking of the family and friends of the student Henry Nowak in Southampton.    For a dignified, grieving family, the 'protest' last night must have been horrifying.   It's a sad world we live in;  but it doesn't have to be that way: Not if politicians and the law makers come up with the right answers to  the mistakes made in this case.