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Al fresco dining UK style.

 Well the weather, even up here in Yorkshire is a treat in fact yesterday it broke the July record temperature.  We got to 32 degrees here although I know it was hotter in some parts of the country.

Being the UK it was also very hot and sweaty and in parts of the west riding it sparked off some very violent thunder storms of the type which we normally associate with Mediterranean countries.

Hail in Keighley last night

As can be seen from the picture taking in Keighley, West Yorkshire, the hail was pretty impressive as well.

Much of the rest of the week has been spent pottering in the garden removing some tremendously big ivy from the house which had started to obscure the house next doors windows, opps, and also clearing the honey suckle, passion flower, and jasmine from the side of the workshop and the arbour in the paddock.

The elder and cow parsley are in full bloom.

It's great being able to get into the arbour again as I use it for a nice sheltered place to play my guitar which is far enough from San for her not to complain (too much!).  All around the paddock there is a profusion of white with the nettles, cow parsley and elder trees giving the best show we have seen for many a year from them.  We will pay when the berries come onto the elder though as all the birds will be shitting purple poo everwhere.

you can now see the workshop side!

 

Climbing roses in full bloom.

Today has been a day of rest for San and I who have been for ride right up the coast from Hornsea via Bridlington to Flamborough.  We had a great day out and fish and chips for lunch at Sullivan's in Hornsea, which if I'm honest were good but not as good as they used to be. Now as I write this the heavens have opened again and once more we are subject to a Mediterranean deluge.

Oh well, better get the zips fastened on the awning as turn the place into a sweat box again.