Rain!

 The weather forecast was for possibly a few showers but actually we had several minutes of proper rain on Sunday morning.

Enough for it to run off the living room roof into my water butt. I filled up two watering cans and a bucket while it was pouring in.

Enough for it to run down the road - although not for very long

And then it moved away to the East, it looks as if further South and North missed out. Son and family were camping with friends in Norfolk, I hoped it stayed fine for them there.

After the rain stopped things warmed up again and now it's back to near heatwave conditions for the foreseeable - high 20's℃ all week and into next week too.

After my lunch as I was feeling better than I'd been for a  couple of weeks. I thought it was about time to up my game and went out for a bit of church visiting to make some future posts for the blog.

Horse Chestnut Tree Mid July

Despite our "prolonged dry weather - one step below drought conditions"  here in Mid-Suffolk, the Horse Chestnut tree I've been following through the year is still looking green and not much leaf fall......compared to the Lime trees in the Churchyard near me which have lost so many leaves already, they blow along the road in the wake of the cars and trucks, looking more like Autumn.

The conkers are getting bigger and it looks as if there will be plenty to collect later, although I don't think children play conkers anymore - it's probably too dangerous for the 21st Century!

The blotches of the Guignardia Leaf Blotch fungus disease on the leaves  (luckily not affecting tree health)  don't seem to have increased too much from my June photos, perhaps the dry weather has stopped it spreading. 

The photos from earlier months are HERE for comparison.

Apologies for lack of replies to comments recently. Still not much to write about so I'll be back Monday.

Car Boot Sale - £1 Spend

 Found a few weeks ago = Top Trumps Marvel Heros cards for next visit  of any of the Grandsons and brand new George (Asda) Sunglasses labelled at £5. Both of these were 50p each

The sunglasses are good but when MGS was here he said he'd didn't like Marvel Super Heros anymore! 

 Eldest daughter and the boys stayed  by the coast for a couple of nights and then came here for a night before heading back to Surrey for their hectically busy summer holidays. Neither OGS or YGS were into Super Heroes either - 50p wasted! It's complicated keeping up with changing favourite things!

YGS  is off to proper school in September. That's all five at school between reception and year 6 and all growing up so fast.