Saturday 13th

It's been week of dreary weather, the heating clicked on most  mornings - which means it was very chilly. It soon went off again and wasn't needed for evenings - thank goodness.  I turned on the Queens Club Tennis on Monday but it was raining down in London so no play and a fair bit of rain there and here too on and off for much of the week. The water butts are all full and everything has had a good watering. Yesterday afternoon the sun came out at last and things warmed up to a proper June temperature.

BiL kindly came over to refix one of the curtain pole fixings that was pulling out of the wall. Glad to get that done - it was a two person job. If it had pulled right out it would have landed on my head while I was sitting in my armchair...........I might not have been found for weeks!

I finished reading this book of short crime stories - over 20 authors of crime fiction wrote new short stories in honour of Simon Brett's 80th birthday. He was president of The Detection Club between 2000 and 2015.

 The cold and wet weather means that as well as the baby Blue Tits on the header photo, who are now feeding themselves- I've seen Great Tits feeding their young and there are Goldfinches on the feeders almost all the time. I couldn't be bothered to go into Stowmarket  for market day to get sunflower hearts to refill so just popped to Debenham for the hardware shop (won't do that again - the sunflower hearts were a lot more expensive) and  returned the five library books I'd  finished as some had waiting lists. I also went in the Co-op and got another of the cheeses from the  Croome cheese company to taste test too. (They didn't have the Charcoal flavour........ maybe rural  Suffolk isn't ready for something that weird yet!) 

Hope to get to one or the other of the car boot sales at the weekend - it should be dryer and warmer.

With luck  I'll find something to write about for Monday.

Nothing to Write About

 Sometimes finding something to write about is easy, but today I can't think of anything! 

Yesterday was wet and cold nearly all day - not conducive for anything interesting.

Tennis was rained off most of the week  so I'm now watching my way through 'Elementary' - quite an old US series now, back to 2012 - it's a bit odd.

Next week is looking rather empty for excitement too.

But I will come back tomorrow and round up the week, I'll probably talk about the weather!

A Bridleway

  Having a cycle again means I can go a bit further than I can walking and recently I biked to the entrance of a Bridleway that I'd never been down before.

If I'd got a suitable off-road tyres and was 40 years younger I could have cycled down it as Bridleways are OK for horse riders, cyclists and walkers of course. But it was too bumpy and strewn with small branches from the hedges so I pushed the bike. I didn't go all the way down the track as after a mile it turns into a small road with houses that are accessed off the main A road - and there's no way I'm cycling on an A road with so much fast traffic!

We are so lucky to have so many footpaths and bridleways in the countryside of Suffolk and on the whole they are kept clear.

Haven't been far on my new bike in the last week - the on/off rain is hopeless for getting washing dry, cutting grass and getting out and about on foot or by bike. More thunder storms - with and without rain -than we've had for years. I haven't even been to a boot sale for nearly two weeks - I shall be getting withdrawal symptoms  at this rate!

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