Smouldering

Today promised to be far too hot to work so did my mum take the day off? No she did not - she got up to start digging the garden at 6.30 for a couple of hours. 

Mercifully, she did stop for breakfast and we then had a much slower day, involving working out how to put up the parasol I've had for years and never used, playing Scrabble and reading.

I've been keen for us both to explore Aston's Eyot, which is now my nearest patch of green by the Thames, and this evening, when it was a 'mere' 25 degrees, we finally got there. As we walked home the sun was setting the trees on fire. I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like this.