We set out into the lightest Monday morning traffic that I can ever remember. I know it’s the school holidays, but the absence of a few teachers surely cannot explain why the roads weren’t clogged and heaving.
The orange ones are going to sit and wait for the return of the autumn mud and a quick glance at the soles will explain why!
Kim & Nat sat under the patio heater all night as the party goers ebbed and flowed to them, while the boys took up residence in the kitchen doing much the same, albeit much nearer to the pavlova, strawberry cheesecake and chocolate tart.
The sculptures are all for sale, but with prices up to £290,000 it’s fun to just look!
Not exactly what I had in mind for the day, but at least the legs came out as promised!
I can tell you first hand that the streets of Kensington & Chelsea are cared for in a way that puts other councils to shame, with perfectly paved, level sidewalks, motorway standard tarmacking and regularly cleaned gutters. Outside of the garden squares and patio pots, mud does not feature widely.
Dai and I set the world to rights today with a bottle of Merlot over lunch and a relaxed stroll along Brighton seafront on a gloriously sunny day.
If anyone is wondering why the English have a reputation for talking about the weather, last week was gorgeous, there were floods on Saturday, two inches of snow [...]
After the snow and freezing temperatures on Sunday, I was back helping my friend John with the base for his new garden shed on Monday, pictured after the first load and again after the second - or should that be the 5th and 6th as Nick & I helped him in with the 3rd & [...]
I was helping lay the concrete base for a barn this morning so I didn’t go running, but I thought you might like to get a sense of what it’s like to be in my shoes from the following short video, taken on Monday. And for all of you that have been putting off going [...]
Cliff said that they were out in the worst part of the storm and that the weather was ’so bad’ that they were just slipping everywhere in the mud while being inundated with sheets of water. In the pitch dark.