Monsoon.

Today has been warm and very wet. At work all the talk has been about tomorrow's whole school trip to the the beach. The coaches are booked so we will go whatever the weather and there is no shelter at all. 180 children in the pouring rain is not an exciting thought but fortunately the forecast is for dry weather so we shall be keeping our fingers crossed. We had a lunchtime meeting to go through all the day's arrangements and the risk assessment form though the section about quicksand was probably a little extreme.

I only taught in the afternoon today. The children carried on painting their flower pots and I was better prepared for the activity. Because the children were using acrylic paints rather than good old poster paints it was more important to not have paint everywhere as once it dries it is very hard to get out. It wasn't until too late in the afternoon that I spotted a large smear of pink paint on the top of one child's head but I did notice the lad who for some reason had put the messy end of a paintbrush in his mouth. And of course it was a brush with black paint. A good wipe with paper towels got most of it off. Apart from that we managed to keep the place fairly clean. It has rained lightly but persistently for most of the day. Everywhere higher than Shirwell has been engulfed in clouds. After returning home with Linas, who had spent the afternoon in town, we had an hour before it was time to drive back into town so he could be at the pick-up point for the mini-bus to Saunton Sands Hotel. He wasn't quite sure what time he would be coming back so right now I am waiting for a phone call as of course Mum's taxi is back in business.

I took these photos from a lay by on the main road at Burridge at 6.15 this evening. The visibility nearer home was about 50m.