A Warm Tuesday

We are expecting about 30º today with cooler sea-breezes after lunch.  Around 4pm those 'cooler sea-breezes' can be quite cool.  This makes just opening the front and back doors a 'natural' air-conditioner for the house.  Our home faces north east, especially purchased so as to capture those afternoon breezes.

We are invited around to friends Ian and Kerrie for lunch today.  They have moved about 5k's away from here to a new home.  With current drink driving laws that now means someone has to refrain from drinking if we head over there or they come here.  This really spoils it so today we expect to be home a little earlier than usual, probably around mid afternoon rather than making a whole afternoon of it.  Then everyone can have a drink when we get home.

Their move also puts a dampener on our Friday Drinks session as well.  They have just sold their home here on this estate.  Previously, despite moving 5k's away, they would prop overnight at their unsold local residence before heading to the new home the next morning.  Now all those plans have gone.

I did a little extra on my bike ride this morning.  I do ride through some pretty parks and gardens as the photo shows.  This photo is of one of my favorite spots.

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In the UK the final episode of series 5 of "Downton Abbey" played on Sunday night.  So last night, having obtained the final episode, Trish and I sat down to watch the series one episode after the other.  We were limited to three of the eight episodes last night as we had a couple of lengthy phone calls come through!

We could sure do with some rain.  This is our storm season where we can expect a hot humid day and a build up of clouds later in the afternoon and then turning into thunder storms and heaps of rain.  But this hasn't been happening just yet.  You could expect a storm each week with around 25mls (1") of rain.  This would be more than enough to clear the atmosphere, water the lawn and garden and top up the pool!

But no rain means I have to top the pool up from the tap.  Fortunately it isn't a large pool so not a huge top up is required.  You would be surprised at how high the evaporation rate can be during the hot weather.  I could expect to lose between 2 and 4cms of water from the pool a week (1"-2") through evaporation.

I hope you enjoy the stories in the post below.  Some of these stories show that these people are not the sharpest tools in the tool-box!