Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

Hooray, rain at last! And even better it started off as light drizzle getting a bit heavier gradually until it became rain at midday, so it's soaking in. Whether we get something heavier and rather less helpful later seems to be uncertain at present. I hope not as I managed to get the washed out (garden) bed sorted this morning before having to end the session and it would be tiresome if it gets undone. To a certain extent it will always be at risk as the gutters are not only leaky (and cast iron on a listed building...) but also very high up and so the drips/waterfalls have considerable impact at ground level. Once the plants can get established though they should be able to cope especially as surplus flints are gradually strategically added as "mulch".

[BBMmk2]

Looks like it’s going to be a good day today. Perhaps with intermittent cloud.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very dull here, thought the nice lady on the local forecast just now has said the cloud will break up and give us some sunny spells.

[BBMmk2]

Very dull here, thought the nice lady on the local forecast just now has said the cloud will break up and give us some sunny spells.

Come down here, SA!

[Petrushka]

Come down here, SA!

Cloudy but with plenty of sunshine here and pleasantly warm at 18 degrees. ideal shirt sleeve weather just now when out doing the shopping.

[DracoM]

Cloudy but with plenty of sunshine here and pleasantly warm at 18 degrees. ideal shirt sleeve weather just now when out doing the shopping.

As up here! And HOT!!

[oddoneout]

A lovely September day, blue sky, warm sunshine and a very light breeze, although beginning to cloud over a bit now.

[Serial_Apologist]

It looks as if the south west in particular, and also most of the western fringe, will have to put up with slow-moving rain over the forthcoming weekend. However, pressure is expected to build from then on, giving dry, if not especially warm weather, to most areas. I still have a couple of longish cycle rides I wish to do before conditions go downhill, as inevitably they will, adding to shortening daylight hours. For today there's warm sunshine to be enjoyed - I shall shortly be taking my rung and a couple of books out onto our lawn.

[BBMmk2]

I think, as the forecasters would, it’s intermittent cloud!

[Serial_Apologist]

Unfortunately, it now looks as if the high pressure I was anticipating for next week is likely to collapse by Thursday, with the Atlantic jet at last asserting its supremacy, to give us more mobility, changeable westerlies, and decidedly lower temperatures for the remainder of the week (at least). The seasonal change we've been waiting for? That remains to be seen. Those temperatures will actually be closer to those one would normally have expected for the end of September in times of old, it has to be said.

[BBMmk2]

Unfortunately, it now looks as if the high pressure I was anticipating for next week is likely to collapse by Thursday, with the Atlantic jet at last asserting its supremacy, to give us more mobility, changeable westerlies, and decidedly lower temperatures for the remainder of the week (at least). The seasonal change we've been waiting for? That remains to be seen. Those temperatures will actually be closer to those one would normally have expected for the end of September in times of old, it has to be said.

I was looking forward to that heat wave, so long as it wasn’t too hot!

Starting out ok here, today!

[oddoneout]

Should be a pleasant early autumn day here. The grass was cut yesterday so I'm hoping to do some pottering in the garden to tidy edges, and tackle some weedy patches that I can then mulch with the grass cuttings. May come with a side order of hayfever but I don't care. There are also bags of small bulbs that need planting - and then protecting to prevent the blackbirds hoicking them out in their search for live food.

[Serial_Apologist]

22 mile cycle ride this morning, making the most of the last of the summer weather, starting our just after nine, back home by 11.20, taking in two composer blue plaque sites: John Ireland's sometime home in Gunter Grove, Chelsea and Frank Bridge's in Bedford Gardens, off the northern end of Kensington Church Street. Two British composers whose music I particularly love, almost exact contemporaries, although the extent to which they were actually acquainted appears not to have been written up anywhere, despite them sharing certain influences in common at overlapping points in their outputs, particularly the English early 20th century pastoral school, Debussy and Ravel.

Most motorists ploughing their way north along the perpetually busy one-way the link between Battersea Bridge and Shepherds Bush will probably have passed by Ireland's elegant mid-Victorian residence, number 14, without noticing or even knowing about it. The picture shows the front of the house with its plaque, but there is another plaque on an outhouse to the rear, indicating the composer's well-secluded studio. After peering over the front gate I popped through to take a look, ready with an explanation should anybody ask.

http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/john-ireland

Heading further north, and then crossing north-east by way of The Boltons - where a fête was about to commence in the gardens of St Mary's, where my mother used to play the organ on some Sundays - Gloucester Road and Kensington High Street, just past halfway up the Church Street ascent to Notting Hill is Bedford Gardens, one of a number of elegant streets that occupies the rectangular area between Kensington Gardens and Holland Park. Bridge's house, number 4, is a short distance along the street from the turn off - a 3-storey late Georgian house, today densely covered with creeper, so that the plaque is only partly visible from the other side of the street.

http://www.blueplaquesguy.byethost24.com/content/Bridge_Frank_W8.html?i=1

Just one more intended long ride remains for this year - High Holborn by way of Brixton, Stockwell, Vauxhall, Waterloo Bridge and The Strand, the best part consisting in a walk through the law courts district, commencing in Lincoln Inn Fields, passing through The Inner Temple and ending at the friendly little Italian-run cafeteria in the Embankment Gardens for a snack lunch that always turns out to be a good deal more than just a snack. I hope to do that one on either Monday or Tuesday, before the breakdown in the weather expected on Wednesday or Thursday.

[BBMmk2]

Whereabouts is The Inner Temple? Looks a good cycle ride as well ive a friend who regularly cycles from Haywards Heath, where I used to live, and Guildford. No trouble!

Going to be not a good day, down here, today. Drizzle, with a high of 19C!

[Serial_Apologist]

The rain-bearing fronts are slowly passing east through here as I write - temperature now 18 C; it managed 21 C at noon and some warm hazy sunshine, but high humidity prevented my laundry from drying on the line, and was still almost wringing wet when I brought it in an hour ago.

Whereabouts is The Inner Temple? Looks a good cycle ride as well ive a friend who regularly cycles from Haywards Heath, where I used to live, and Guildford. No trouble!

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The Inner temple lies between the Victoria Embankment and where the Strand re-joins the Aldwych "crescent", which is at the point it becomes two-way and changes name to Fleet Street, right by the law courts. Temple tube station on the District/Circle is but a stone's throw away.