So. Glenys and Geoff ambled off on Monday morning, via Chesterfield, Bolsover Castle and Woodseats, where they met with Ross, Tabitha, Gareth and Cally for lunch. Pretty much immediately the sun came out, the temperature went up and a burst of summery weather came our way!
Happily for me I had Wednesday off, so was able to enjoy the unexpected burst of summery weather. I then also had Thursday off, having woken up with no voice and a koff and sneezles and wheezles. I would have put this down to hayfever, except that antihistamines didn't fix it - and our office has been toppling down with these symptoms one by one since my colleague Rupert came in with them one day the previous week. Anyway - whatever it was there didn't seem to be much point going in when I couldn't speak. They would only have sent me home again!
And the summery weather continued. So much so that we decided to water the garden on Saturday evening. Alas - the gun thingy that fits at the end of the hose had sprung several leaks in the sides over the winter and really wasn't performing its function. This didn't entirely discommode me. I was holding it and therefore was behind it when it decided to spray vigorously in a sideways direction. The Builder, alas ....
We determined to buy a new one. The one we had had been bought for not many pennies a couple of years back in our local Homebase. Alas, a couple of months ago they decided to take our Homebase away from us. Now the nearest one is in Sheffield, which is not a huge distance away but is really not worth driving to when all you want is a hose fitting which will cost less than a fiver! So we decided to go to B&Q.
To our surprise, the car park at B&Q was almost full. I realise that it was a warm, sunny Sunday morning in May - but we got there before half past ten and it doesn't open until 10 on Sundays. In we went. And turned around and came straight back out again when we saw the queue for the tills!!! By the time we had got back to the car, the queue for people coming in to the car park had stretched right back down to the road!!!!!!! On the other hand - there was no one in the supermarket. This is possibly because they were all in B&Q. The ones who weren't were out on the roads trying to kill all the other drivers and passengers. The number of times The Builder had to take evasive action to avoid people doing highly improbable things in their cars was really quite remarkable! All I can assume is that the unexpected exposure to several days of warm sunshine had gone to people's heads and driven them all peculiar!
We still don't have a gun for the hose (we did go to the garden centre but they wanted £15 for a properly good one and we didn't want a properly good one for £15 but a cheap and cheerful one for £5). But we do have a sprinkler so have been using that.
The warm sunny weather carries on. But there is an extra long long weekend coming up. And the schools are all on holiday next week. I think we can pretty much guarantee cold, wet, windy, wintry weather for at least the next ten days!!!
A sunny weekend out and about:
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| The view from our loungeroom window |
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| Marlo enjoying the Sunday morning sunshine by the herb garden |
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| Driving out around Dunstan Hall |
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| The hedgerows are nice and green |
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| and the oil seed rape is in flower |
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| and there is blossom on the trees |
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| The Cutthorpe roundabout |
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| Heading back towards Chesterfield |
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| The Builder talking to his mum on Sunday evening |
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| The house catching the evening sunshine |
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| I thought this might be a harbinger of storms and tempests - but it wasn't |
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