26th October 2010

Never a good omen for the day's weather - you know the saying "Red sky at night shepherds delight, red sky in the morning sailors a warning" - and true enough it was wet and windy by this afternoon, but the sky from our bedroom window this morning was beautiful.

15th July 2010

9am on St Swithin's Day and my umbrella was already wet.  Not a good omen for the rest of the summer if the old proverb is to be believed:

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain no more