19th July from the West Cliff Green, Bournemouth

The heat has continued all night and the morning has brought the same, dead blue sky and intense sun. There is enough breeze on the clifftop to make the temperature just about bearable. The birds are strangely quiet apart from the gulls which squabble over last night's take-away boxes. Every patch of shade is taken up by the coffee drinkers and early picnic lunchers. But during the afternoon a grey film of cloud slides across the sky, temperatures drop and the little breeze fills chilly. The cloud thickens and takes on that yellow colour that presages a storm. But it does not manifest apart from a few distant rumbles of thunder and ten minutes of large thundery drops of rain. People on the beach are undeterred and by late afternoon the cloud is thinning, the sun reappears and heat is building again. #bournemouth #westcliffgreen #July #summer

From the 19th July 2009

Up to now, the year has been ambling by letting us enjoy the emrging flowers and wild life. But it has now quickened its pace and is charging recklessly past Meadowsweet has suddenly grown up from all the dtches and damp place and now lines all the tr

Later

And then suddenly everything is hemp agrimony with it's pinkish, punkish flower heads, weld and Agrimony (the ordinary sort). Can't keep up now.