Vee, I saw that tropical storm Patty was headed toward Spain (the opposite way they usually go!). I wonder if that’s where your cloud cover is from. We’ve had very cloudy weather for several days, but at least we’ve finally gotten some rain. It’s been bone dry for a month or more. It is very hot for November - upper 80s F.

Donna

Cloudy all day today and heavy rain predicted for most of tomorrow, and we need rain badly, too. We had one decent rainfall in September and one in October. Both months had some pretty fall days and some hot ones.

Rather chilly and windy days at present. I had some plants flower earlier in a false Spring when the weather was quite warm but it is dull again. We are getting some rain but not enough to really water the gardens.

November by Edward Thomas

November's earth is dirty,

Those thirty days, from first to last;

And the prettiest thing on the ground are the paths

With morning and evening hobnails dinted,

With foot and wing-tip overprinted

Or separately charactered,

Of little beast and little bird.

Oh, Vee. How dreary! It's been pretty grey here in northern Indiana the last week or so, but it stayed warm right to the end of October. The time change is really getting to me, though. It's pitch black out by 6pm and I am ready to go to bed! Do you change the clocks in England?

Yes the clocks 'went back' 27th Oct and it certainly gets dark very early and we need lights on before 4pm.

Luckily the dull weather has given way to some days of much needed sunshine and colder nights, which I don't mind. A faint glow in the evening sky turned out to be the moon which we had missed for a few weeks.

Donna, it is difficult to think of even our average summers temps as reaching 80. We start to wilt by the high 60's and the newspapers talk of 'heatwaves' when it hits the low 70's!

Vee, I’ve seen many tourists from the UK and other northern climes here in July and August, and they are typically sunburned to bright red and look like they are about to drop. Sunburn and heat can be dangerous!

On the other hand, I put on a sweater at around 72 degrees. 😁

In Western Australia we have had several trials of time changes to make us still two hours behind the Eastern States when they change. Each time we have voted against it because it doesn't suit us! So at present we are three hours behind. My breakfast morning chats with a social group members there are during their lunch.

When I had a business I took the ES clients offices 8am, my 5am, calls at home in my PJs trying to sound awake and in office gear!