Heck, it’s hot!

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200 years of braille
steamy hot city centre
only the shadows are cool
sheltering under the trees
city siesta
cool churches, like St John’s, welcomed
St Cuthbert’s basks in sunlight
Victoria Street 🎶 .. don’t stop me now …
thousands on the Royal Mile – with sea view 😅

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Reactive Outdoor

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It has been a staggeringly beautiful summer day here in Lakeland – one of those ‘really glad to be alive’ days, the temporary trials of (I think comparatively mild) Covid-19 notwithstanding. And I’m not entirely sure whether last weekend’s joys are responsible, or the forecast good weather, or a getting more adventurous as the years roll on – or a combination of all three. But, anyway, I’ve been delighted by the arrival of my splendid new Reactive Outdoor pop-up tent … and had my afternoon siesta in it!

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Sky blue Summer

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Overarching blue sky, dotted about with the whitest of cotton wool clouds, have combined to highlight bright summer colours in all else. And in this quiet Lakeland garden the early evening cooing of turtle doves accompanies my reading …

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Edinburgh daydreamin’

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It’s a decidedly chilly and grey January afternoon in Cumbria today – never, of course, without the natural beauty of Lakeland, but chilly, in a dispiriting sort of a way, anyway.

And then a note from a friend in Edinburgh led to my daydreaming of that beloved city, and of summer days there this past year, and of my returning there in the not-too-distant future, and I was away! Eyes closed, after-lunch coffee to hand, in January, in Cumbria, I’m in Edinburgh on a bright summer day …

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