'The rain it raineth every day......'

Yep! St Swithin has seen to it that it has rained every day so far...whether it be during the night, very warm air temperature, or last Thursday very cold with a ground frost in Scotland, blue sky or dark and overcast. Thus the water hungry pumpkins are growing



and the Ladies walked in the Ponteland /Darras hall area and got wet. This weather has probably helped Newcastle Council garden department who have decorated the city with tubs, cascades, hanging baskets resplendent in bloom.



In particular,floral displays adorn every entry point to the city eg the Haymarket and the Central Station. Clicking on my photos will enlarge them and make them clearer too- though the photographer is not exactly Lord Snowdon standard!



Flowers beautify every attraction eg museums, cathedrals, statues (I love Cardinal Basil Hume and his statue on the outline of Holy Island outside St Mary's Cathedral- I also love Queen Victoria outside St Nicholas' Cathedral even if she is built on a mass grave of cholera victims!)



Talking of the Queen Vic- how much has the pub of that name in Gosforth improved? We called in again with friends (before a Chinese meal) to find many of the ladies who'd been at Ladies Day at the Races, had staggered up the Great North Road on majestic heels and were now fluttering fascinators and bling all over the bar; this year was the first year Gosforth Park Ladies Day has been sold out. Earlier in the week seven of us walked four miles from Corbridge and five tottered the four miles back from Riding Mill's Wellington while two hopped on the bus!!! Had 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at Whitley Bay Playhouse that night not been so good , I think I would have slept through the performance with warm exhaustion.



It's no good- I am flagging; I have been so busy all my attempts to blog have failed and now I cannot keep my eyes open.... 'to sleep , perchance to dream.....'

'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps on zzzzzzzzzzz'