It rained all day yesterday. As we ate dinner, there was a brief break before the next downpour. So it was with some surprise I got up this morning to see bright blue skies. I contemplated putting my washing out to dry, especially as there was a good wind blowing to speed the drying process. I decided to leave it until I'd had my wash & brush. Sure enough the rain was back. The odd grey cloud I'd first seen was no longer the "odd" cloud but one vast cloud covering the sky.
As for temperatures, they've sunk rapidly over the weekend. On Thursday evening we had to resort to the central heating. It's been on ever since. Just twice a day, a couple of hours in the early morning & again in the evening. We've needed it & felt no temptation to switch it off again. I can see this is going to be an expensive winter for fuel.
Indeed it's been an expensive year for fuel. We'd had to have the heating on even in June, & now it's once more on even though it's still September. There's no denying it, being disabled means you don't move around much to keep warm as well as you're not out of the house much, working or socialising, to keep warm that way either. The summer clothes have been put away. The thick woollies are once more being layered up.
Maybe the spicy meal I'm intending to make for dinner will help stoke up the internal boilers. We're having bobotie, a South African dish - we're off to South Africa this way even if we can't actually get there by plane as we were hoping.
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