Storm clouds coming

A day with rain, blue skies, gry skies, grey skies and sunshine at the same time.

Spent some time in our local graveyard again, exploring... found lots of WWI graves that I'd not seen before - the youngest was 16, and there was an Australian. I wondered what he'd been doing in Essex.
There was a 10yr old boy - killed by enemy action , I guess by one of the few bombs that fell on the town.

" In 1942 David was living at 17 Henry Road in Chelmsford, having moved there from 42 Longfield Road in Great Baddow. Henry Road was adjacent the massive Hoffmann's ball-bearings factory, a target for the German air force throughout the war.

At 10.59 a.m. on 19th October 1942 a lone German Dornier Do 217E aircraft approached Chelmsford from the east at an altitude of around a thousand feet. Taking advantage of low cloud and poor visibility the aircraft dropped to around a 150 feet to make a bombing run on Hoffmann's approximately along the line of one of the factory's railway sidings "