There’s been a few….
The last month of the year started on a low…..another day of very low temperatures. It was winter wooly and ‘I don’t care what the date is’ I’m putting the heating on time as it only managed to get to about 11°c plus it poured here most of the day which didn’t help
AND
Look what happened just 2.5hrs up to road.
Yes it snowed- not the first time it’s happened up there…..after all it is a ski resort…..it’s just not really what you expect to see there on the first day of Summer
We’re not sure where Spring has been for the past three months but we didn’t expect Winter to return and say hello!
NOW
Just to show you how strange our weather is here’s the forecast for the rest of the week. Look there are 20s and even a 30. Warmth at last!
The roses in the bottom garden have been spoiled with all the rain, hopefully these warm days coming up encourage a few more buds to open. I’ve missed seeing them on the outside table so am happy ‘The Triffid’ (The Golfer’s pet name for a very lanky Buddleia that’s growing near the deck) is flowering again. The first blooms are usually enormous and very showy, once they’re spent it’ll be cut back closer to fence level ready for the next growth spurt and more flowers.
I haven’t seen many butterflies around it yet- but then with all the changeable weather (plus a cantankerous uncooperative spine causing me grief) I’ve been in more than out, have sort of withdrawn from life this past couple of weeks – .book in hand, cup of tea close by, keeping my chair company
Enjoying two old crime mysteries plus a couple of modern Novellas
(for November)
Murder isn’t Cricket – Edwin Radford 1946
A Studyin Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle 1887
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The Girls on the Shore – Ann Cleeves
The Catch – Mick Herron
Today (dry, sunny, warm) was not a day to be moping around inside so as the wedding planned for January isn’t going to happen because an unplanned baby will be arriving in April I worked on a little first size cardigan to give grandson and mum to be…..a ‘surprise Christmas gift’ …..in white because ‘we want him/her to be a surprise Grandma’.
The Eye Surgeon surprised The Golfer last week by returning his driving and short walks privileges, result – a much happier Chappy who is bearing up well with restrictions still on golf or gym. Life had another surprise for him this week (which could have had disastrous consequences) but I’ll leave that for another day.
So what’s been going on in your life? Anything interesting?
Still Waters 