What have you noticed lately?

It's been bloody cold the last two nights-last night was so cold I had to sleep wearing a fleece over my pyjamas! However this weekend we will experience a mini-heatwave(weather coming up from the southern European regions) before the temperature drops again thanks to Atlantic pressure moving towards Britain.

Over the last few weeks I have noticed that trying to cover a role of a higher grade to my own for a while is loaded with responsibility, pressure, worry, stress and longer and longer hours .
I feel absolutely f#cked .

Apart from the fact we've had a mini heatwave in Lunnun
I have noticed that the rise and fall of social media tends to dominate the news. There isn't a day that goes by that some online thing is either not good enough, dangerous 'predators', sites for kids not that safe(Roblox apparently) or some right-wing lunatics who want to threaten people or destory the world - it's a shame these people are allowed to crawl out from under their stones and put their stuff online, the world is a dangerous place but the cyberworld seems to be doubly so. I doubt any of this was envisaged by its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

I've noticed that everyone tries to be a comedian these days (despite not being funny at all). Sooooo annoying!

One almighty flash of lightning and a huge ka-boom! Thunder and rain as well - flamin' June! but we do need the rain to avoid any chance of drought like last Summer.

Noticed lately some weird duck swimming in a lake near my house. Never seen this bird before.



Podiceps auritus

Thunder rolling about outside, yet it is hot and steamy-I always thought that when you got thunder, rain would follow but it would clear up the atmostphere-it seems this is the opposite effect tonight and NO rain!! I really hate hot weather but I won't complain again about temperatures in the high 20's after this Summer's heat!

I've noticed that when we get a new prime minister there's a (brief) sense of great optimism that everything is going to be alright now, that the country is saved and those nay-sayers that put down our green and pleasant land are just jealous of all our successes...
Then we go back to the usual doom and gloom (boo!). I blame the BBC!

I am far from optimistic with Boris in charge as is the rest of the Europe and the world and I don't think it is any fault of the BBC, they cover the momentous turn of events because that is their original remit, to inform, educate and entertain. Would you rather have the bias of a Fox News or wall-to-wall coverage of CNN(including adverts)?

One noticeable thing today...It's BLEEDING HOT!!

Just stuck my nose out in the porch. It's like a greenhouse and then opened the main door and whumph! a wall of heat hit you in the face-phew! I would estimate that it must be 95-98F and might make 100 or so later. What a scorcher!!