In the shade

#2 daughter arrived at 9 am with the boys. They were keen to get up into the woods which seemed a good plan given that it was going to be getting very hot later.

It took 3 hours what with finding good sticks to whack bracken with. We found a shady spot for our picnic - Mr C and I had the tree on the right.

Val along the road says her weather station shows 30 degrees. It certainly is hot for the NE.