I feel quite guilty that I have been so negative about the weather recently when so many people have suffered so badly at every extreme of climatic conditions. I’ve been moaning about our lack of vegetables, but our lives and those of our children don’t depend on our crops coming to harvest or failing.
That to one side, I am so enjoying the lovely summer sunshine we now have; to sit outside, to wander around without coats and jumpers, not to shiver, I’m loving it!
Having lunch in the garden we were joined by our neighbours’ cat, Smirnoff who thinks he owns us.
The name Somerset comes from summer settlers, or summer settlement, a seasonal farmstead which was abandoned in wet and chilly winter time when the flat fenlands, the Levels, would flood. The local people would drive their animals up onto hill pastures for the winter then return to their summer settlement as the season changed.
Lois Elsden 
Hope you keep the weather till mid-August when we’ll be making a short stop in Somerset to see a cousin who has a plant nursery near Broadway. We’ll be on our way for a couple of weeks in Cornwall. I haven’t been that way for decades but have happy memories of stop offs at a farm near Bridgewater when I was a teenager.
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I am glad you are finally getting some fine weather. And I hope it holds on too.
This summer has been unusual here because it has been so dry and we’ve had more than our usual share of sunlight. London, Ontario is normally pretty dreary much of the year so I am just trying to be thankful for all of that light (even though the heat and drought concern me).
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Light is the thing, isn’t it… dull days make me feel sluggish and dull myself. You seem to be inspired by everything, though Jeremy!
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I’d like to think so. . . 🙂
Though dull days get to me too, especially where my “job” (my dissertation) is concerned!
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Dissertation…that word strikes terror and despair into so many hearts… I remember it well… but I’m sure you are neither terrified nor in despair!
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Well. . . it depends on the day. . . 🙂
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Lovely! Cats do love their (or your) sunbeams.
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