I Hear Thunder.

The day has been very warm with little wind and the promised thunderstorms arrived later in the afternoon. 

This morning the garden showed signs of the overnight rain. Of course it was going to rain after my watering of the back garden! 

The cloudy skies and not a lot of sun to warm the place up kept it warmer outside than in so I've spent as much time as I could outside. With the blackbird away from her nest I took the opportunity to climb on the raised bed wall and cut back more of the hedge. Not near the nest but just to keep the hedge from growing over the plants in the raised bed. Afterwards I cleared the seedlings springing up between the old paving slabs. That's the price you have to pay for growing ornamental grasses with their delicate seed spikes.

I did a bit more work on my Balrog and then I don't know what came over me but I did some extra cleaning in the bedroom, hoovering and wiping down all the surfaces. That's what happens when I'm not busy with a full schedule.

Nest building time.

Naturally once all my jobs were done and I was looking forward to reading outside that's the time the thunderstorms arrived. A large and very dark cloud approached slowly from inland with a lot of crashing and banging but only one sheet of lightening as far as I could see. I was quite happy to stay outside and watch the sky until it began to rain. There wasn't very much rain and now the thunderstorm is making its slow way northwards across the bay.