Day 96

Wednesday 24 June

Today has been the hottest day of the year so far. 28°c in the car this evening when we took Mabel down to Mistley for a walk along The Walls.

After I arrived home, I made straight for a cold beer and headed to the bottom of the garden. A moment of tranquility, sat facing the Silver Birch with the sun flicking its warm light through the branches. I looked up thinking I heard the Buzzards but realised it was my own breathing! Asthma is playing up with all this hot, dry and pollen saturated air.

Whilst out I saw this little wonder. I think its a Yellow Shell moth. It’s going to be another great year for butterflies and moths. The spring and early part of summer has been dry and warm.

There were so many people out on the grass alongside the Stour this evening. Many feel that the lockdown has been lifted to soon, others that it hasn’t come soon enough or gone far enough. Swimming pools and gyms are to remain closed for the time being.

This is becoming yet another topic for the nation to split over. It was about being in-or-out of Europe, now its in-or-out of your own home? Meanwhile, the tide of the Stour keeps coming in and going out, and the sun will pop up again in the morning, through the branches of our Silver Birch. And today is set to become the years second hottest day so far.