horrible bleak, grey, cold June weather

You nearly had a day of summer NFK? Did I blink?! Or did it just not stretch this far.

Nfk - I've just realised what your name means! Why have I been vaguely thinking fried chicken?

I think I'm hungry

Mmmmmm - comfort food!

Yes we really did have a nice day here yesterday. Just the stickly out bit of Norfolk and Suffolk. And at least it's warmer still today. Perhaps, if we're very quiet and still summer may sneak up on us.

And J0 I've just realised why you were thinking of chicken!

It's raining...got home from our French trip at about 3.30 a.m., surfaced about 10.00, put on cropped trousers and T shirt, half an hour later put long trouses and shirt on, half an hour later put on cardigan and socks....We were basking in sunshine this time last week, and it was northern France, not the riviera!

If it is any consolation Ariadne it is grey and drizzly in Normandy too. Not so cold today, but tomorrow rain and 14 degrees - we have got French friends coming for a barbecue (not).

We've just lit the fire, never had to do that in June before. It's cold, drizzly and windy in this south east corner of England

Mamie I have to say that, by the time we left Le Touquet, it was cooling, and Calais was practically Arctic! But a few days of sun really does cheer one up, doesn't it? So - no barbecue tonight, then?

I've just read that we are about to lose our 'summer' and hit four weeks of wet and windy weather! It's enough to make me want to hibernate! I have the heating on right now and I can't ever remember doing that in June before this year!

Don't believe the newspapers. July is going to be nice.

For ducks...

No!!!!!

I wonder if it all my fault, installing solar panels 3 years ago

I controlled the heating for the country where I work..if I ever turned the storage heaters off at bank holiday time it was cold and wet so I started keeping them on. But then, a couple of years ago my storage heaters were taken away and it's been cold ever since .

Own up was it you who nicked the

Fourth grey day in a row in South East

Sunny and breezy and 11° and midgy in Argyll. Love it.

No barbecue Ariadne. Roast duck with honey and lavender instead!

Ooh, mamie, shove the recipe in the recipes section, would you? [yum emoticon]

It is at the bottom of this Telegraph article, Bags. I love the Diana Henry book.
www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/3299319/Lavender-and-roses.html

No!!!! Lavender is not for eating! Had a piece of shortbread with some in it once. Yeeeuuuck!!!!

Thanks, mamie!

Sky's grey washed, the rain's in for the day. Blowy. The greens in the garden are vibrant and lush. The sour cherries are just turning from yellow to blush - not yet ripe. Roof leak doing well. A day for some music, I think.

The sun is doing it's best here, but fighting a losing battle against the scudding clouds. Put the washing on the line, hope it stays there. It is of course coming up to Wimbledon (how I hate that) and we usually had rotten weather then, I remember, because we used to go on our camping holiday about this time of year, and although my daughter doesn't agree, I seem to remember that it was cold and rain quite often then, and we would put the fire on as soon as we arrived hom.

Sssssshhhhh - sun's shining here!