blue skies, nothing but blue skies from now on.......

Well the sun has not come out at all today, in fact it didn't come out yesterday either or the day before. OK, where is it? What's happened to this global warming business then eh? Tonight's doggy walk was what you could call chilly. The sea was an even deeper grey than the sky with the whole beach seeming to be in a total monochrome phase. everything grey, light grey, dark grey plus all those greys in between. Ugh, l even had my woolly hat & gloves on to protect my ears from dropping off & my fingers from turning black with frost bite. Come on summer, the may blossom is out the swallows are here so bring on the sun!

Living in the countryside l think you become more aware of changing seasons than urban dwellers. You know when the swallows are due back & watch the heavens in anticipation, the same with the may. This year things are out of sync in a fairly big way. The normal harmony that greats you as you walk doesn't feel right? Firstly, we have the may blossom. It is in flower now, 3 weeks early in this part of the world, but what is stranger still is that there is no scent to the flowers at the moment. Weird. Secondly the birds have nested early & as you walk past nesting boxes or through the barns you can hear all the twittering going on by the chicks clamouring for food - feed me mum now! There are other things that draws your eye. the barley is shot [the ears are emerging], grass too is starting to flower & the land itself, well it's dry, dusty & has deep fissures on peaty soil. Weird.....

This afternoon l have had the great pleasure of dealing with a racist b###. Poor Masoud seems to have had a slight problem. Basically & being aware that any Tom, Dick or Harry can read this, he was tucked up good a proper as they say & my intervention to help clarify the situation only resulted in a very silly little man on the end of the phone ranting and raving about foreigners. Well l suppose you live & learn. As l said to Masoud, we learn that people are not all as they seem from an early age when your best friends drops you in at school and you take the rap. But it really wasn't me Miss Brown it was HER!

Because l'm a sunshiny person, l have attached a picture from my January holiday. The sun was shining the sea was blue & it was WARM ney it was positively HOT. It was the sea that was warm, like bath water & the fishes brightly flashes darting about, oh my; shorts, bathers & no shoes fantastic! Hey guys take me back ...........................