Sunday 13th May

After all the rain and cold, thank goodness for a little touch of the sun.  You can almost hear the collective sigh of relief, and not only from the sellers of garden furniture and barbeques, but from just about everyone.  Even the farmers who had been praying for rain are now wondering how they are going to save their drowned crops, standing water in fields is now a common sight.  And how these experts do lie to us; only two or three weeks ago they were insisting that it was the wrong sort of rain, and even a washed-out summer with rain from here to September would leave us still in drought.  Only yesterday the drought was lifted in the South-West and the Midlands, so obviously they had the right sort of rain there.

But enough griping, let us just sit here for a moment longer in the sunshine and warmth, let us soak up just for a day or two the goodness of the sun before the rain starts again.   The simplest and (to date) the cheapest of pleasures; to sit and simply bask for a while in the sun.  Skin cancer causing or vitamin D essential, I really don’t care, all I want is to feel a little touch of the sun on my skin.