The weather has changed again. Today was hot and sunny. This morning Jackie drove me to Sears Barbers in Milford on Sea where I had my hair cut; after lunch we took a trip out to the forest.
Ponies in traffic along Sowley Lane gave me the opportunity to focus
on the verge’s prolific ragwort swarming with bees.
Convolvulus now covers all the hedgerows, like this along St Leonard’s Road,
where bees also plunder the bramble blossom which has simultaneously produced early fruit.
Oar Point Memorial faces the Solent beyond which lies the Isle of Wight, seen through haze this afternoon.
Forest Fields by Michael Renyard
was today adorned with red carnations nodding to red poppies on the little wooden crosses.
Looking down towards Bucklers Hard we noticed a new sign to the museum featured in https://derrickjknight.com/2013/01/12/the-olden-days/
With the heat comes desperate ponies trying their best to protect themselves and each other from flies. These at East End also disrupted the traffic.
One driver vainly clapped in an effort to shift them, until a cyclist dismounted and persuaded them with more success.
A yacht weather vane in Rowes Lane is possibly pea green.
The stand of kniphofia at the front of the Walhampton Arms is extended more each year.
This evening we dined on cheese-centred fishcakes; boiled new potatoes; crunchy carrots; and tender spinach and green beans, with which I finished the Appassimento