Today’s guest picture comes from Mrs Tootlepedal who used her new phone to take this handsome group portrait of her brother, sister-in-law, niece and great niece whom she was visiting while on her jaunt to the south. As she had visited her mother too, she had seen four generations in one day.
Unlike yesterday, when coffee and bun on the bench in the sunshine was the way to go…
…there was no respite from continuous rain all day today.
It was raining in the morning when I drove down into England for my singing lesson which was enjoyable and useful, and it was raining in the afternoon when Sandy and I drove up to Eskdalemuir to put up our camera club exhibition there.
It took longer than we expected to hang the 30 odd pictures but the result looked satisfactory and the Hub manager was very pleased with the show. Seven members of the club are taking part.
It was still raining as we drove back, but things did begin to brighten up a bit until Sandy most unwisely remarked that it was looking better. At this point it began to rain very heavily.
It was still raining when my flute pupil Luke came. He showed clear evidence of having practised and played with some very nice tone today.
I had some more sausage stew for my tea and was not surprised to find that it was still raining when the recorder group assembled in the evening for our monthly playing session. We had a hard working and enjoyable time, but as it was still raining when we had finished, they made tracks for home and I will be forced to eat all the biscuits which I had bought for our post-playing cup of tea.
All in all, in spite of the miserable weather, I had a pretty good day. Photographically, it was a day for standing in the shelter of the front door to take a flower picture across the drive and luckily, the dahlias didn’t seem to mind the rain…
…and at least I got a little sun.
It is going to rain again tomorrow.
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Sorry about all that rain but at least you will have Mrs Tootlepedal back to cheer you up tomorrow.
It may look as though the grass is greener (i.e. it’s sunnier) wherever you’re not . . . but I do note that your brother-in-law is holding a can of Raid, so all is not quite perfect there either! Hope Mrs. T’s train is on time.
I haven’t come across Raid, is it a bad thing? Mrs T was punctual to the minute.
They make indoor and outdoor bug sprays – so good or bad would depend on who you ask!
I wouldn’t mind a little rain here now. Could you send some our way? 🙂
Everyone wants our rain…..except us of course.
We had rain today too. Hopefully ours and yours will bring out more mushrooms. Last year I had done two mushroom posts by now and this year I haven’t done any.
Our rain just won’t stop, making walking a bit unattractive.
Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day – OR send it to South Africa!
With pleasure.
we had a bit of rain but today looks ok so far. loved you having to eat all the biscuits
I had some help in the end.
How about a picture of that sausage stew? Lol
Dash, I’ve eaten it all.
Glad you had enjoyable activities to take your mind off the rain
We could do with some of your rain. May we have it overnight, please?
Have you got a very long pipe?
🙂
You made excellent use of a rainy day. The exhibition looks great! I’m sure it took awhile to get the pictures just the way you wanted.
It is quite fiddly to get them even reasonably level and square. And then there is the labelling….
Looks as though you rose to the challenge.
As with others who posted before me, please send some rain my way, too. It’s supposed to be 100 today. I do enjoy reading about your photography club, by the way!
We have plenty of cool wet weather to spare here. Just send a bucket and I will soon fill it. 🙂
Oh dear lots of rain there and here! The photos all looked good and at least the sunflower was smiling.
The only thing that was!
It’s raining here which means I can catch up on your blog. A pleasant afternoon!
It’s been a bit wet here today too. And yesterday. Having said that, it’s not really wet. Not wet like the west of the country. I remember walking down the street in Preston one day and realising that I couldn’t recall the last dry day.
That sounds all too familiar. All the same, we have only had a week of bad weather although it seems much longer.
Yes. and even when our weather is bad it rarely kills anyone. We could have it a lot worse.
That is true and something that I bear in mind even when I am moaning.
🙂