A run of a few hot, sunny days turned into what seems like an eternity of hot, sunny days. It’s been too hot for me to go outside – hey, I’m from the north east! I’m not used to such heat as one finds in Cambridge in summer – so I languish in the humid heat of my house, with the windows and back door open, hoping a for a through breeze. The cat doesn’t know what to do with herself, and hides from the sun under the buddleia bush. She rolls in the muck and brings that muck right in the house. The grass of the lawn in mainly yellow and straw-like.

Yesterday, it came to a head and we had thunder and a heavy sploosh of rain (which sent the cat not in through the open door she was a couple of feet away from, but under her beloved buddleia bush, and wouldn’t come out even when I went to get her. The heat and humidity didn’t leave us, however.

Today, it’s been sunny and hot again, but this afternoon, there have been intermittent rumbles of thunder in the near distance. Now, the light is dark yellow, the rain has arrived. The rain is getting heavier as I type. The thunder’s further away, but it’s still going. The cat’s inside.

Update, about 5 minutes later: the rain is coming down in billions of big fat drops, heavy and hard. They’re bouncing off the wall when they land.

It’s just what the ground needs.

Update, about 2 minutes later: the road out the front’s flooding and the thunder’s getting nearer!

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categories: Life and Stuff
tags: Dusty, rain, sun, thunder, weather and seasons