It is almost two months since last we saw a puddle in the gutter alongside our front drive.
After fairly steady rain for most of the morning one built up for a brief appearance (by midday it had drained away). Jackie just had to photograph
it with its raindrop rings; a lesser pool on the patio; further fountain ripples;
more precipitation on pelargoniums, petunias, begonias, hollyhocks and Hagley hybrid clematis.
I, in the meantime finished reading V. S. Naipaul’s ‘A Way in the World’ and, after lunch, posted https://derrickjknight.com/2022/08/16/a-way-in-the-world/
This afternoon, dropping Flo and Dillon off in Lymington, we met Karen and Barry at the Community Centre where we handed them
their completed wedding albums. Jackie took these photographs.
Our friends gave us a thank you card bearing a fond message and a splendid picture someone else had produced of the confetti moment; with tokens for afternoon tea at Rosie Lea, which has become one of our favourite venues.
As we made our farewells Flo and Dillon rejoined us and we did some shopping in the town before returning home.
This evening we dined on a variety of flavoursome sausages; creamy mashed potatoes; firm carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli; cabbage fried with leaks, and tasty gravy, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden, I finished the Bordeaux, and Flo and Dillon drank Ribena.