Beautiful morning here, and since dawn I've taken the opportunity to
work in the garden - mainly hacking back rampant shrubs and climbers
and catching-up on the watering. Noticed that a shield of high cloud
has been moving in from the south-south-east and is beginning to
obsure the sun. Presumably an outlier of the storm over northern
France which (I assume and regrettably) will get nowehere near us here
in SW Essex.

Go one, someone tell me it's got our name on it ........ I wouldn't
be at all surprised, it's the neighbouring village's fete
today .......

Regards,

- Tom
Blackmore, SW Essex.