Hot Tuesday

 

Yesterday, Britain was hotter than the Sahara Desert, Spain, India and the Caribbean!   Temperatures reached 30C (around 86F). Tomorrow is going to be even hotter with temperatures of 33C (around 91.4 F)  I know a lot of our American friends get it much warmer than this, but believe me, it is very hot for the British Isles.  Not the sort of weather I enjoy, even have to keep out of the garden until early evening.

Nathan was here again this morning and he just never stopped laughing, he is such a happy little boy:-

"I don't mind being in the Pen ~ You got me!"

The Boys were not so happy at being shut out though, especially Jess who looks most unhappy:

Never mind, they will forget all about it when him indoors takes them out later, when it is cooler.  He has been trying to find a fairly new park that has been created around here.  It has been set aside as a wildlife sanctuary and apparently there are Herons there.  The only trouble is that the Council have not yet got around to signposting it!  Makes things a bit difficult when you do not know exactly where it is but Mike thinks he discovered where it could be yesterday so he is going exploring today.

My back remains bad.  I have had regular bouts of back pain for years, sometimes it only last two or three days, others times more like two or three weeks and as it has been over a week now, I am getting a little more than fed up with it.  I cannot use a hot water bottle on it this weather either.  Well, hopefully it will not be too much longer.

Had some more information in for the family tree last night.  Only names and dates as the family members involved absolutely refuse to tell us anything about themselves which is a shame. One of them had a long and distinguished military career and as I have been able to research all the army men for several generations with their full histories, it would have been nice to add his. I must be honest and say it rankles with me a little.  Do not get me wrong, I am happy to get the information I have.  But I have put twelve years into this, hundreds and hundreds of hours, and I cannot tell you how much we have spent.  Hours spent puzzling how the pieces fit, writing and re-writing, telephoning, photocopying, sending letters overseas, contacting military organisations and regimental museums.  Now they will get all that for nothing, handed to them on a plate and I have the strong feeling that we will never hear from them again once they have the history.  Although they are close family, there was a rift long before my time and they were completely lost.  It took me a lot of persistance to find them again and, on first contact, my cousin seemed delighted to find he had family he did not know about.  Oh well, at least I have names and dates.  I am not a person to break a promise and I did tell him at the outset that if he provided information, I would send him a copy of what I have discovered. I really cannot go back on that.  But, like I say, it does rankle somewhat.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments you posted on the entry for my late brother yesterday.  I meant a great deal to me as you can imagine.

Well, lunchtime has rolled around, I am  going off for a sandwich and a nice cup of rosie (for our American friends that is Rosie Lee which is tea! - cockney rhyming slang)

After lunch I shall probably read as it is too hot to do much else.

Hope you all have a great day.