We were beginning to wonder if our Chinese shop €5.00 garden thermometer was faulty as it seemed to go no higher than 37° when other people were reporting temperatures of 40° and 41°, so, to check, I put it in direct sunlight for five minutes. It was climbing past 47° when I whipped it back to the shade and put it on the north-facing wall, and it gradually recovered. Later, it was at 37°. The point there being, although it may only be 35° (or whatever) on the weather reports, that’s in the shade. Step out of hiding and you’re looking at something more like 50 +, and that’s why you have to be careful around here during the hotter months of the year.
To cool us down, here’s a shot of St Nicholas Beach taken one morning in February.
The photos today are from Neil’s last year collection, which makes this sound like a fashion show, but as I don’t have anything new or earth shattering to show you, they’ll have to do. After an intense period of putting out two new books in the same month, I’m having something of an enforced go-slow. I started on the next mystery, but something wasn’t working, so I am going to start that again tomorrow. Today, we have things to do: shopping, swimming (for himself), collecting things from the post office, cooking lunch (me, himself made the ice cream yesterday), entertaining H for lunch, and then, for me, reading, and later a film. Such a stressful life.
Actually, it might be. If Neil remembers to call in on the accountant, we should learn the fate of our tax bill for last year. I should be able to look it up online, but I’ve forgotten how, and anyway, it’s safer if I’m given a printout with the amount and the payment number, I can then just pay it online and it’s done – assuming I can afford to pay it, that is.
So, apart from that, I foresee a quiet, non-writing day, which might also involve some light dusting and other necessary housework.
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