I was in Oxford on Sunday. Nice part of the world for sure, but not really where I wanted to be on an August weekend.
Well, it’s time to say hello to August, and the drizzle which seems to come as a package deal these days. I don’t like to moan about the weather more than your average Brit – we need a little to keep us going, I think – but I have had just about enough of looking out of the window first thing in the morning only to confirm more of the same.
The school holidays have started, which means that down here in not so sunny Devon we’ve got a few weeks of the usual traffic jams and holdups on the A30 to look forward to.
It was difficult to get John away from the TV over the weekend – when the Ashes is on, it’s like he’s been hypnotised.
We were in London at the weekend for a family christening and it couldn’t have gone better – the weather was stunning, the gathering was lovely, and the location perfect.
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I’m not one to get carried away, but after the miserable weather of the past few weeks, it really does feel like summer is here.
Last weekend was even more British than I’d imagined it could be. On Saturday, we had all the pomp and the pageantry of the coronation, the union jacks, the costumes, the rituals, the tradition.
We’re all familiar with the concept of sandwiching two words together to make a brand new word. And the internet reliably informs me they’re called “portmanteaus”.
I went for a little run on Sunday. And just to be clear, this isn’t one of those moments where I tell you that my “little run” was in fact the London Marathon.