This Weather

June is providing a joyous autumnal spell and I simply can't get enough of it. The photos for the animation above were taken from the window of my bedroom at Dillon Towers a couple of hours ago. The winds have been howling all day and the rain has been incessant, which is a welcome surprise given that I'm usually scrambling around for suncream and hay-fever tablets at this time of year. Long may this mini-autumn continue - I like the drama and unsettling qualities of a good storm. Yesterday, there were tornadoes in Middlesbrough and Guisborough, which is maybe going a bit too far with the theme. Less of that thanks, this is Britain afterall. Although it's about time something decimated Guisborough, soulless wasteland that it is.

I've just come out of an extended bath session and I feel immeasurably content. I lay submerged in my foamy trough, reading the paper with a cup of tea and a little pile of Bourbon Creams on the side while listening to the wind whistling on the other side of the wall. Instances of sheer bliss such as that are few and far between, and if I could choose to be suspended in any moment for the rest of time, it would be that one.