Great pic of a
Ryan Air flight taking off from the East Midlands airport with a mini tornado in the background. The main thrust of the story though is that temperatures are set to plummet in the UK in the next few days
The story blames the tail of tropical storm Bertha for this intimating that its going to blow cold air down from Scandinavia - - - looks like Autumn might get a bit of help if it comes off
Hello Mr Magpie - - - we say it every time we see them around - - - Its an old wives tale though that they steal shiny objects.
This story however puts the theory to the test and de-bunks it - - - One thing i have never figured out is, how can you tell which of a pair of magpies is male of female? - - -
Its been hitting the papers for a couple of days and the Express have shunned their "normal" miracle cure sensations to plaster Cliff Richards and his alleged wrong doings all across the front page - - - looks like the story might run for a while - - -
Closer to home
We had organised a trip up to the Lake District, not normally something we do in the "summer season" because of the crowds of tourists. This trip was rather special as we had arranged to meet Number 1 daughter for lunch.
As tradition dictates we stopped at the last "lay by truck stop" before Windermere for a brew and a Cumberland burger, highly recommended.
Then it was up and over the Kirkstone Pass - - - uncharted territory for us as we normally keep to the Ambleside - Keswick side of things.
I don't really think this Scottish truck meant to come up this way. The people alongside it have abandoned their broken down car and are walking to the top of the pass to organise recovery - - no mobile signals here!
We reach the Best Western in Glenridding and settle down to lunch with Number 1 Daughter and her Husband. almost 3 hours later we bade them good bye and then I relaise we have forgotton to take any lunchtime pics!
Sally waves from the window of our room as I wander off the 80 metres to the lakeside to get some pics - - - on the way back i notice black clouds approaching and the odd drop of rain falling.
A few minutes later it is bucketing down and Boris enjoys a shower
The following morning there were some fantastic misty reflection pics to be had
We visit
http://www.honister-slate-mine.co.uk/ where Sally does an impression of a bag Lady! We both comment on how warm it is before realising we are normally up there in winter!
With our half ton of slate for the garden loaded we head off home
It was Sally who had noticed a couple of our website still pics were obviously not functioning and had stopped around 2200 the previous night. I had imagined the laptop to have crashed but in the end i traced it to the RCD unit down by the pond. It had just given up the ghost and had to be replaced
Today looks to be the "calm before the storm" type of day because tomorrow has been wildly predicted to be very wet so - - - to the garden!
Enjoy the day
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