Library Book Photo for July

8 books of crime fiction that I'd reserved turned up all at once on the mobile library last week- Not cancelled due to excess heat this time....thank goodness.

I'm hopeful that most of these are readable, but there are a couple of new authors there ( I've already tried the BLCC by Joseph Shearing and found I didn't like it) and two books of short stories which are usually quickly read. Which might mean reading from my shelves before the mobile is round again toward the end of August.............depends how hot it is.................forecast is for high 20's ℃ or low 30's℃ this week again and into August, it's just so very odd.

I've still got 20 books reserved and waiting, either  for the library to get them into stock and/or for my turn on waiting lists. Several will arrive by the August van visit. What is really annoying is that some were so slow to be bought by the library that my reservation had 'expired' before they even had them in stock - and I've had to re-reserve. It means I went from nearly at the top of the waiting list to the end! I've now found out how to make sure that doesn't happen again.

 Last months library books were these two photos below and I read some but abandoned many for various reasons - usually they just didn't appeal once I got started. 

Details of all the books I read were copied from the July books read list onto last Wednesdays post  or on the separate 2026 page. I read one from my shelves, picked up another from library shelves when I took some back and another for 50p from the books For Sale library shelf.

The Tree Lore book didn't have any mention of  Horse Chestnut Trees to add to info for my Following a Tree posts and I flicked through Tonics and Teas but nothing appealed. Evergreen was yet another book I just skimmed through, it was about 'finding joy in the seasons'............. I wasn't in the right frame of mind!

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.