Current Weather at Strickley

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Is this it?

Have we missed the summer? I know we had the hot weather in June, and hopefully got some good silage (though maybe it was too hot and it wilted too quickly), but since then it seems to have been the all too familiar drizzle interspersed with heavy showers.

We're in the contractor's queue for second cut and are anxiously watching weather forecasts (always believing the most optimistic) hoping for 2 or 3 settled days.

Putting a positive spin on the bad weather it meant we could grab a couple of days away in the caravan. Having left it until the last minute (the day before) we were severely restricted in our choice of site and ended up at Bury! Not in the middle of the allegedly famous market, but on the edge of town in the middle of a country park. It was a lovely site, clean, green and with steam trains passing by at the weekends.

But never again will I navigate a car and caravan through urban motorways and fast flowing traffic that knew when to get into the right lane. Two days of almost relaxation between two journeys not designed for a passenger of a nervous disposition.

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