Blooming Dear

Hang the expense, this was the kind of day when a huge bouquet of colour inside the house would have mitigated the gloom of looking out at hours of torrential rain. We had been well warned of thunder showers but so often of late the forecasts have been wrong but not today.

Lady Luck was sitting on my shoulder, though, as I managed a walk in sunshine to Bruntsfield for shopping and the inevitable coffee. I just made it home when the first drops of rain fell.

I put the enforced entrapment indoors to good use by making a large spicy vegetable stew to keep body and soul together for another week.

The rain has stopped for the present but I am staying put to begin reading Night Gate by our very own blipper, Peter May.