Today is our 29th Wedding Anniversary – we don’t do gifts, although I did get Becky these sunflowers, and she bought me a bar of chocolate – half of which has already been eaten, I fear it will not last the night!
Despite an hour or so of drizzle today, and similar on Tuesday, it continues to be warm/hot and very, very dry. Since we’ve been here in Street, I can’t recall such a prolonged period of dry weather, I suspect we are into 1976 drought territory, and I am suprised that we haven’t (yet) been subject to a hose pipe ban. (Other regions in the country have)
It’s been good weather for figs, with Becky collecting a harvest on a daily basis. And whilst the lawn is baked brown and solid, with regular watering my plants have done well.
The sunflowers are blooming, and the insects are enjoying a daily feast of pollen. I have my first confirmed pumpkin that has set – surprisingly out the front where I threw in a couple of pumpkin plants along with some sunflowers, where the box bush had been, and yesterday I spotted the first in the back – the jury is still out, but I am hopeful that it has set and will start to swell in the next day or so.
The geraniums that seemed so small when I first planted them as plug plants have all grown and are flowering profusely, offset by the dainty lobelia. I’m glad I bought these and that they have survived the dry summer – probably only because Sophie, and then Sam, have been home for much of the time we have been away to keep them watered.
I’ve run a few times this week (and refereed once) and whilst my legs do ache after exercise, I do think that I am working my way back to some semblance of fitness. Need to keep it up, and keep getting the miles under my belt.
On Friday I went to a Spanish coffee morning in Street – it was good to use the language again, this is something I must keep up.