It may well be officially summer but this is a very strange June weather-wise. This morning I was up extra early because Phil had to go and catch an early bus into Oldham, consequently I was out running just after eight o”clock, running in the windy sunshine. I debated putting on an insurance raincoat but decided that the sky looked clear enough to suggest that there were no showers imminent. I even stood and basked in the sunshine from the shelter of the front porch when I got back.
Then Granddaughter Number One sent a message, in her inimitable fashion: ‘What IS this weather?” I messaged back our acceptable sunshine and wind, and she sent me a photo and video of ‘sideways’ hailstones.
She lives a only few miles away on the other side of the Grains Bar hill but that hill makes all the difference. Rain, hail, snow, thunder - she always experiences it before we do. And, lo and behold, a few minutes later the sun disappeared and we too had hailstones. By midday the sun was back! Odd weather!
I checked up on the Goose Family on the millpond when I was out and about. All doing well, it seems, but I’m pretty sure there were originally more than two. Nature can be cruel!
Out in the wider world mayhem continues. I should be used to it by now but it still seems odd that people are warned in advance tonleave their homes before a bombardment takes place. I suppose it means the perpetrator can say that if someone is killed or injured it is largely their own fault; they shoule have moved away from the target zone. And it still seems odd to hear news reports about places that for so long were just names in Bible stories?
“Israel issues forced evacuation order for residents of Lebanese city of Tyre
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for residents of Tyre, Lebanon’s fifth biggest city, ahead of attacks.
“Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre, including the Christian quarter, and the camps and surrounding neighbourhoods,” he wrote, urging residents in the southern Lebanese city to “evacuate immediately” and “move north beyond the Zahrani river”.
And here’s a link to an article about a Palestinian doctor, arrested almost a year and half ago, and now moved into solitary confinement. His crime? Not evacuating patients from his hospital when it was about to be attacked again - continuing to try to save lives.
Such is the modern reality.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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