Shade

It's turned warm again. Not usually surprising for July, other than the weather has been variable this summer, with grey wet autumnal days interrupting the sunny spells. But the last few days have erupted into sweltering heat again. The worry is that the weather has peaked too early: I don't go on holiday for another 6 weeks, by which time who knows what will have happened weather-wise. Clearly there is no point starting to pack yet. Not for another 5 weeks and 6 days anyway.

I am never very good at managing my summer wardrobe. It looks pretty much like my winter wardrobe. I know it is the same physical wardrobe, one of those built-in affairs which you could not easily change for something else without a lot of re-decorating, but I was meaning the clothes inside: what I wear doesn't vary all that much during the course of the year. I do generally wear less when it gets hot, but it needs to get very hot for me to do something as radical as wear shorts, for instance. And summer is generally long gone before I get around to finding my sun-glasses. I have been thinking of a hat recently: perhaps it would provide some beneficial shade in the heat of the day. And I could use it to keep the snow off in winter. But you have to traipse around shops to buy a hat; and I'm never really sure it's worth the effort.

Lost in the woods. It was days before I was found.