Forecasts. Gluts. Rules and regulations.

As the week has gone on the weather forecasts have changed. Earlier in the week they had been forecasting very changeable weather and even rain cor this weekend. We had a spectacular thunderstorm in the middle of possible Wednesday night, with wet sand on the beach next morning. And on Thursday afternoon the cloud moved in seriously in the early evening, clearing the swimming pool as temperatures plummeted. But then the sun came back and the forecasts are all big sun symbols. In fact Galicia is promised a hot summer. Perhaps to make up for the wet and chilly spring. 

The UK is also forecast a good summer, for a change! It seems that the good weather in the UK so far has caused a strawberry glut. Prices are being reduced to get rid of them. Various websites are offering suggestions for things to do with the strawberries that people have bought and cannot eat. Is it really possible, I ask myself, to have so many strawberries that you cannot eat them? They suggest mashing strawberries, mixing them with butter and sugar and keeping the spread in the fridge, to use on your toast on the morning. Another idea is a strawberry face-mask, the acidity of the fruit being good for acne! Who knew? It still seems a bit of a waste of strawberries, inmy opinion anyway! 

There now seem to be at least two, if not three, sand sculptors down on the beach. If they continue to multiply at this rate it will not be possible to walk 100 yards along the prom without seeing yet another elaborate work of art. I am not much impressed by the Christ crucified but some of the others are very elaborate and interesting. The artists appear to have set up little tents next to their works. I wonder if that is against the rules of beach use.

Now, the person who seems to be breaking rules at the moment is that Meghan Markle, Duchess of Wherever, Wonderland or some such place, the new Princess of Everybody’s Hearts. The other Duchess, la Middleton, appears to have been cast in the role of “the good one”, the one who has to conform. After all, if there is a likelihood that you could be queen one day, then you can’t have dodgy stuff posted on social media about you. But Meghan is now the one who can be seen to kick over the traces a little. They expect her to modernise the royal family!!! Oh yes??

So what has she been up to? It seems she went to the trooping of the colours wearing a nice little slightly off the shoulder number in a fetching shade of pink, with a matching fancy hat, a “fascinator” the size of a dinner plate. There are pictures of it all over social media. But women in the royal family are not supposed to bare their shoulders, unless presumably they are wearing evening dress. Are there similar rules for the men? Apart from their having to wear lots of medals? I expect so.

What a load of nonsense!

I love all these rules and regulations about what you should or should not wear. Jess Cartner Morley, whose fashion comments amuse me, make me cringe, have me thinking that she is as mad as a box of cats, has been going on about the wonders of a white shirt as a fashion item. I could perhaps agree with her. A white short is always good. Here is a sample of what she says:

“Princess Di, Bianca Jagger, Jean Seberg, Sade, Brigitte Bardot, Faye Dunaway and Jane Birkin” are Lauren Grant’s white-shirt idols. Natalie Kingham, fashion and buying director at Matches adds: “I think of Diane Keaton, Carolina Herrera, Patti Smith … it’s the varied women and way they interpret it that makes the white shirt an endlessly, effortlessly chic item. I have many and never tire of them.” This spring, logoed white shirts by Burberry, an elegant swing-back style by Raey at £225 and an oversize cotton shirt by MiH at £155 are all flying out at Matches. “

Note the prices she quotes. This is what I mean about her enraging me. Who pays  £225 for a shirt? Which reminds me, here in Sanxenxo, in one of the seafront boutiques is a very nice green sundress - €250!

Nice but not €250 worth of nice!