Drove to Southend and walked to the end of the pier. It was hot and sort of dreamlike out there, I pretended I was on a ship.

Beautiful weather in the morning. Hot and grey in the evening.

Rather cold and grey today.

Got rained on at lunchtime and on the way home - heavy rain about 4.15 pm.

Warm again but cloudier, tried to rain at lunchtime.

Weather was warm, damp and misty when I set out at 9.30, with only the lower halves of pylons visible; while I was on the A12 the sun burnt through and it got very hot by 10am.

Very hot and damp in the morning after a thundery night. When the sun burnt through about lunchtime, it got hotter still. Wouldn't be surprised if we had some real thunder tonight.

Hazier sunshine in the morning, turned grey and humid later.

Quite hot today, went without my coat.

Warmer today.

Showers again.

Beautiful weather - sun, wind, huge white cumuli.

Cold again, sun and showers.

May 8th. Lots of showers today. Walked home in heavy straight-falling rain, very pleasant with the trees in full leaf.

May 9th. Strolled home in between showers.

Beautiful weather for the election, calm, sunny, almost cloudless.

May 2nd. Wandered round in a daze at lunchtime, partly lack of sleep, partly the sun blazing down out of a cloudless sky, mostly political amazement.

'A warm spell at the beginning'

May 5th. Weather windy and cloudy with rain ite, pressure dropped to 987 mb.

'and then a cold snap straight after...'

May 6th. Cold and windy; rain, hail, snow, but brightened up about 4.30.

'Some snow as far south as...' [...]