Ear Worms

My current ear-worm is Perfect Day, not surprising as it’s being played a lot on the radio following the death of Lou Read, and it’s embedded itself in my head.

As I was walking yesterday afternoon with Perfect Day on a continuous loop I thought that it actually was a perfect day.  The wind had dropped and the sun was out casting a strong yellow light across the changing colours of the autumn leaves.  Overhead the Kites were calling. The river was glistening away into the distance.  Then at 5.00pm it started to get dark.  A day that ends that early is far from being perfect.  I hate the short days of winter.




5pm and it's almost dark!

We might not have got the high winds of the storm but somewhere around here it’s been raining heavily.  The river which only a few days ago was still and clear is now a fast flowing khaki.  I left on Monday morning and it had risen a few inches I came back late and in the dark on Monday night and banged my knee on the side of the boat as I tried to step in.  The river had risen a couple of feet.  The EA have slapped strong stream notices on, so there won’t be any boats passing although yesterday the rowers were out. 

There’s not a lot of rain forecast for the rest of the week so hopefully the river will go down as we’re all hoping that we don’t get the flooding we had last year.