Another warm sunny day after a cooler and wetter Sunday, amazing how quickly the grass recovers with just one days rain.

Had a walk on Maryport pier this morning, two chaps fishing, a pleasant half hour discussion about the lack of fish to catch, but we still keep trying.

Then home to make dinner, steak slices by Morrisons, bake 30 mins @ 180. Pastry was OK, a puff pastry type, very flakey; don't know about the alleged steak, there didn't seem to be any, just a smidgen of beef-flavoured gravy running through the middle.
Don't know if anybody still makes pies that are full of what they're supposed to be..

Another warm day, but the clouds came in this afternoon and a shower of rain. Feels thundery but none so far.

Feeling too hot to eat, so dinner today was a corned beef sandwich, too hot to cook as well. Won't do me any harm, I could do with being a few stones lighter.

Raggy cat continuing to live outside, visited twice to cadge slices of ham and a drink of water; if there's no milk in the bowl, it jumps onto the bathroom sink and mioaws plaintively until I turn on the tap slowly, takes the water before it goes down the plug-hole. Then goes out again, I think it likes summer.

Another glorious morning here, 27 and probably rising, bright blue sky.

Our adopted cat Raggy is spending all night (usual) and all day (unusual) out of doors, sunbathing but in the shade, with occasional forays into the kitchen to see if any goodies have appeared in its bowls. It usually has milk, but the milk has been turning to yogurt in a few hours in the heat, so it's being restricted to water.

Despite the heat, dinner today is to be fish, Morrisons last nigh had 4 ready-breadcrumbed fillets of Alaskan pollack, only 25p last-minute reduced from £4, with home-made chips and mushy peas.

And it's Friday, I get an hour allocated to visit my grandson this afternoon, so that's about 4:30, I need to make his goody bag up, a packet of crisps, couple of chocolate biscuits and a handful of Cadburys roses. And an avocado for my son, he loves them.

Seems like I'm not such a regular blogger, my mind seems to go blank when I try to think of something to write, but think I need to comment on the exceptional weather here, been high 20s for 3 days now and no rain.

Fields looking a bit bare after the first crop of silage has been taken, and the lambs, so prolific for the last few months are getting scarcer in the fields and appearing through the local livestock mart and from there onto our plates. Very nice but very expensive.
Brambles looking good in the hedgerows, I think a bumper crop this year, they're starting to form very nicely.

The mackerel have put in an appearance, reports of buckets full being taken from Whitehaven pier, makes me wish I could get the old rod and reel out to go and catch a few dinners.