After we got in last night the wind started howling and hasn’t really stopped since. It reminded me of the nights in winter when that was all it did night after night and I didn’t sleep well.
Today is has been rainy showers, plenty of wind and the odd half hour of sunshine. It’s cold and doesn’t feel at all like summer but the plus side is the midges are not out!
The weather prevents you from getting stuck into any one thing really, I keep thinking I’ll wait for it to decide and then either commit to an indoor or an outdoor task. I guess I need to just decide for myself. We all had showers this morning, I made bread and we had lunch. We’d said we’d go down to support the community teashop but the kids were not bothered about going so they stayed home watching a film and doing plasticine stuff while Ady and I took Bonnie down. We sat outside with her in the sunshine and were joined by various people at various points before going to collect the car which had been at the workshop with the batteries on charge. Sandy appeared while we were there so we called in for a cup of tea with him before heading home.
Ady and Scarlett had been tidying up her bedroom in installments over the course of the day so they finished that while I got roast dinner on and made a syrup sponge for pudding, then Ady and I went down to feed the animals, water the polytunnel and I fixed the fruit net cages over the raised beds as they had been blown about a bit. I sneakily ate the two ripe strawberries in the polytunnel and they were delicious 🙂 The stuff I’ve planted outside is all looking rather yellow and stunted. Reckon it’s either too cold outside still or too wet or perhaps both 🙁 Learning that self sufficiency in food is an unlikely dream here without a massive injection of cash to improve the soil which would negate any saving on food shopping for probably all of our lifetimes!