It’s baking here in the south east of England, up into the middle thirties for the fourth day running and, absent a thunderstorm, will remain so until Friday at least. Even Dog’s searching for water
So here’s a gloomy little sonnet to light you on your way. And for anyone reading this in the Southern Hemisphere, bully for you. If your spring foretells what this sonnet anticipates, it’s going to be grim
A Springless Future
Cold Jack, content and job well done, creeps home
Allowing Spring her turn to warm the earth.
Crocus tongues push out through softening loam
As glass-eyed shepherds watch their flock give birth.
We, unplucked youth, prime cocked with urgent sap,
Feel the tug of Nature’s call to breed.
Like sheep, we follow Her bewitching map
To plant, in fertile earth, our febrile seed.
Yet somewhere Nature’s diverse scheme is lost;
Our black-fuelled lust sears seasons into one.
Our greed neuters Jack; he’s become a ghost,
Sharp fingers culled by a remorseless sun.
Why should our lambs breed, after this breach of trust?
We’ve fried this once green Earth, turning it to dust.
Some, of course, are born for the heat…
TanGental 
Let’s hope we get the storms tomorrow.
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Now Thursday pm for us… nothing yet…
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Overnight tonight 50% chance – not good odds for us
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Us neither. I’m not living in hope…
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I think you copped it. We didn’t
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I quite like this one – very apt! In my tiny corner of the SH we swing between bitter cold and balmy days – but Covid is mysteriously back in Auckland and we stand poised to reenter lockdown …..
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Your health minister was on the the Beeb yesterday extolling the zero covid policy as an option for us. I think he’s forgetting one essential. A competent administration to run it. Hope you nip it in the nodules. At least you are pretty much as far away as you can get from it.
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Haha, very witty, Mr Le Pard. It is only 11 August today, so technically winter, and my garden is bursting with blossoms. The world has gone quite mad and I had to think what our summer will be like.
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I know. Its barking. We’re looking at dry plant species and at least 50 percent are from southern Africa! It’s potty
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Perfect
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So sorry – I do hate the days of relentless sun (at least they are getting shorter.) September and October are our months of dry heat and wildfires and I’m not looking forward to them at all. Last year was horrifying.
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We were chatting with friends who live in Danville and they said how bad it was last year. Fingers crossed there’s no repeat.
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This is indeed unusual for England, but Miss Vicky loves it, of course. I am hoping for a thunderstorm over here too but nothing! Let’s hope for a good rain soon!
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No rain yet… keeping everything crossed
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It rained tonight! YAY!! Only a bit but enough that I don’t need to water the garden tonight. There are more thunderstorms predicted for the coming days… let’s hope!
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We watched ours skirt to the west. It blew a hole in Twickenham but left us cursing. Still let’s see how we get on a cloud roulette tomorrow
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I hear you and the “cloude roulette” is just a perfect expression. Eventually, the big clouds couldn’t help it anymore and it has been rainging for a a couple hours… yay!
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Lucky you. It started, stopped and sort of expired. Most disappointing
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Oh, yes, we had that same game going.
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Only the tortoise would appreciate the heat so I am glad you featured her again!
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Dear Vicky. She’s the family stoic…
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Hard shells help.
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I feel for you but have to say we are forecasted to have 40C degrees or above for the next five days. We have had 29 days so far above 37C degrees.
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But you probably have air-conditioning dont you? We’re lucky to have indoor plumbing in our ancient houses
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Yeah I have a heat pump unit that runs 24/7. Okay you win the misery contest if you don’t have air.
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Nope, until about ten years ago no one thought the UK did a proper summer. Now we’re wondering if we missed the memo.
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Ha ha ha. Welcome to summer.
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As much as I do love the summer, I cannot wait for some thunder storms and rain. We aren’t used to such warm weather and haven’t got the systems in place to cope (such as air conditioning). If this isn’t a sign of global warming, I don’t know what is… 🌺🌸
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Quite. The only consolation is that it takes a quick head shake for me to water the tomatoes
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I bet! Good luck with that garden project 😊
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Thanks Hannah. We’ve only bern at it 30 years so we’re still beginners…
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I will send you some, quick post. Just be careful and don’t open it all at once.
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I’ll warn the postman
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‘…black-fueled lust…’ very apropos. 😦
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Ah indeed, if only we’d seen that coming
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We did. 😦
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Wonderful words! I hope you are now getting a little of the rain that has finally reached us up in the Midlands 🙂
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Nope, two miles south and four west have been deluged but we remain as dry as an overcooked omelette
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At least you have the heat in limited quantities – we have been in the 30s for over a month, with accompanying humidity. I can remember living without A/C in New England, but down here it’s impossible. We tried it and things got moldy!
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I know the feeling. There was a tv programme years ago, looking at how other countries did adverts. An American deodorant advert had this hunky hairless man, with his spray can, looking out at snow, uttering the memorable couplet ‘it may be winter outside but it’s always August under your armpits’ as he sprayed liberally. I imagine that must be in Maine…
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🙂 🙂 Maine can get hot, too, ut usually only for a couple of days!
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