Another cold, clear day. (Very cold indeed when I went out to post a letter in the evening).

Another bright cold morning. Washing up after lunch, I found the bright sunlight pouring levelly into the kitchen quite unnerving - everything was intensely lit as if in a Buffy dream sequence.

Up at 9.50 to wonderful bright sunlight and a cold, clear day. Instituted new tradition of Christmas cake with breakfast.

Rather warmer today, with a fresh wind. Quite pleasant. Bus driver dressed as jester! Collecting for charity.

Not so cold today.

Again very cold.

Very cold again, with a very few tiny snowflakes early in the evening.

Very cold today, and bright in the morning.

Bright cold start, got a bit warmer and a lot duller later.

Very dark morning, and getting darker: the street lights were still on at 10am. But at lunchtime things brightened up as if a front had passed, and I realised that it's been some days since we've seen the Sun.

Really cold today, with grey mist. The sort of day that makes being inside a positive pleasure.

Very cold again.

Colder and dryer. Quite pleasant weather to be well wrapped up in.

Cold and dry, with some sunshine.

Interesting misty day, always with sun filtering through and giving everything a warm glow. The sort of winter day that isn't depressing.

Grey, cold day.

Cold and dry, a good day to be inside.

Very cold and foggy.

Weather just right for the date: cold, dry and with very dark clouds.

Rather cold today.

Dark day, suitable for staying in, which I did.

Mild and damp today.

Weather all mild again.

Very cold today. Went out in the afternoon to the Co-op - sky had long 'scarf-like' clouds, like the Cold Waste.

Very cold and clear today (1°C by the thermometer clock on the accountants place down by the station).

Cold and very wet today. Actually began snowing heavily while I was out shopping. We do sometimes get non-sticking snow as early as November, I suppose.

Bit warmer today, and interestingly windy.

Very cold and dry, not actually unpleasant.

Even colder today.

Very cold and clear weather. Went for a walk in the afternoon, through the country park. It was good to be roaming through woods and fields on a fine, cold late autumn afternoon, with a bright low sun.

Rainy day.

Damp, unpleasant day.

Rather nice weather - cold, but lovely yellow light.

Wore new jacket in anticipation of rain - disappointed to find that it didn't rain.

Walked into town in the morning to buy waterproof jacket and overtrousers, for walking to work when it rains. It rained a bit while I was doing so.

Bright, cold, windy day. Very pleasant compared to yesterday.

Pissing down with rain in the morning.

Weather's turned very cold.

Coming home had to wait 20 minutes in the cold and rain at the bus stop.

Traffic so much better today, it was unbelievable. Odd, because in the morning it was raining, and you'd've expected more people to drive to work.

Heavy rain at times today, traffic dreadful.

Rain at times, fortunately either just before or just after my trips out.

Decidedly colder today - the East wind we've had for the past few days was stronger.

Raining in the morning, bus came early, sprinted and caught it. Surprise! I have become extremely fit. Weather cleared later to a gorgeous still afternoon with long golden light, a bit like a late evening in summer.

Cold and bright again.

Cloudy afternoon clearing to a beautiful sunset, with bits of cloud lying like isles in a fabulous deep blue sea. Then the New Moon hove into view (this one will be the Harvest Moon when it's full).

Noticeably cold in the morning, with that hard, bright feel that reminds me of October 1999, and which I associate very strongly with anxiety.

Beautiful windy - quite windy - sunny day with big cumuli, showers and a fantastic bright rainbow as I got home.

Raining heavily in the morning.

Beautiful early autumn day with wind, sun and medium cumuli.

Interestingly windy weather.

Started off cool and cloudy, turned clear and pleasantly warm with a fresh East wind.

Beautiful weather again, just a shame there's an impression of autumnal chill behind it.

Wonderful weather again - but so nice as to deter me from any long daytime journey, it being so hot.

Went to Clacton for an evening stroll. I'd forgotten how beautiful the seaside can be in the dusk, full of reminders of childhood holiday evenings, and also seeming to show how huge the world really is. When I turned back to the land after taking in the immense sea and sky, the houses on the straight seafront seemed like tiny parts of an intricate computer simulation stretching away into the distance.

Wonderful warm, calm, hazy day.

Same weather as yesterday, but seeming quite different, like a fine early autumn day.

Last day of Summer. Warm and calm, with a beautiful golden full moon visible on my way home in the evening. Just a shame we had so little summer weather to come before it.

Weather beautiful in the morning - blue sky, lots of cumuli, sun not too hot.

Amazingly, no rain today!

More rain, mostly in the afternoon though. For once I carried my umbrella all the way to work and did need it on the way home.

Rain stopped in time for me to go out at lunchtime and view yet another flat.

Beautiful cool sunny day. Observed that autumnal slant of the light you get in the last third of August. Summer's coming to an end already - with so much rain it seems like it never really started. Wouldn't be surprised if we got a hot September.

Thundering again - a wonderful stormy week we've had, remnants of a tropical storm I believe.

Great thunderstorm about 0230 today. I've come a long way since I used to lie awake listening for *10 thunder and being afraid. 28 years old I was - aaah! No, I was about 7 when I used to do that. It's good to have an example of how I can get over my fears. I wonder if it explains why deep rumbling noise annoys me most?

Incredibly heavy rain at lunchtime, like the sea pouring out of the clouds; fortunately I was in the car.

Beautiful day - cloudless but not unpleasantly hot.

Rain coming down like stair rods in the morning. When it stopped we had another very unpleasant, hot humid day.

Was glad I had a car in the morning, because it was coming down like stair rods. When it stopped we had another very unpleasant, hot humid day.

Fantastic thunderstorm just after I got to work: sky as dark as slate as it approached from the SE, oddly flat clouds almost like the 'pile of plates' formation. Very hot and humid all day.

Beautiful weather again, with a pleasant breeze.

Blazingly hot day. Spent most of it keeping cool. There's something oddly luxurious about the cool shade of drawn curtains on a hot summer day.

Beautiful weather again, with a pleasant breeze.

Low cloud prevented the (very hot) sun from breaking through till lunchtime, so today was pleasantly cooler.

Much too hot again.

Very hot and clear again.

Gorgeous weather, which prompted me to re-read Burmese Days when I got home.

Beautiful hot weather, like summer should've been so far.

Beautiful weather.

Excellent thunderstorm in the morning - got really dark, and rain came down in torrents.

Rained in the morning, quite heavily, but cleared a bit later, becoming rather hot.

Much warmer today. I went on an impulse to the Co-op , and when I came out the heat took me by surprise. Particularly as it wasn't a very clear day.

Went to Rendlesham Forest even though it was raining. Rain cleared up on the way.

Cooler with high grey cloud. Think all this unseasonal weather is bringing me down a bit - it's like the feeling I get in October, but come early. I'm hoping we get some hot weather later in the summer to restore my good mood.

Rather warmer and brighter than of late.

Cool, grey day with short spells of drizzle.

Spot-on weather forecast today: bright start with wind and thin cirrus. Went to Felixstowe and walked North up the prom in warm sunshine appreciating the large waves. As I came back down the wind increased and it got greyer and the waves got bigger. I had parked near South Point and as I neared the point I was wondering if it was quite safe to continue. When I got to the point and turned back, I found it was difficult to walk against the wind, so it was lucky I only had about 400 yards to go back to the car.

Later in the afternoon the wind really got up and it began to rain heavily - for about 8 hours so far. Unusual to get lots of rain on an East wind here.

All this was perfectly according to the weather forecast. And I was pleased I timed my visit to Felixstowe so well, with one half in sunny seaside weather and one half in interesting stormy weather.

Hot, bright day with cool breeze.

Up as early as 7.30 to a beautiful cloudless morning.

Bright morning. Interesting weather later, kept raining heavily but only in brief bursts.

Some good sunny intervals today, and also some impressive heavy rain.

Untidy sort of weather - light rain, high smooth grey clouds.

Beautiful bright day with big cumuli.

Cold and windy but also sunny at times.

The weather was very windy with lots of rain, which always invigorates me. Only drawback therewith is

(Thursday) - well, whatever it was, the phone rang just as I wrote that.

Some impressive cumulo-nimbus clouds in the afternoon, though only a rumble or two of thunder. A beautiful rainbow too. And a lovely New Moon later.

Strange sort of day, cold and unseasonal. Had to have the fan heater on in the morning.

More fresh bright weather. In the morning deep blue sky and hundreds of small cumuli.

Rather fresh today with a smell of the sea on the wind.

Cloudier, windier and cooler today.

More cloud today, but very hot when the sun was out.

Absolutely beautiful morning, clear as crystal.

Really beautiful summer evening now - clear and with all shades of colour from deep blue to apricot. In some ways I will miss this place, particularly the four-directional views.

Lovely weather again - bit cooler and more pleasant.

Very warm, and humid.

Again very warm. Had the windows open all night.

Transit of Venus today, which I've been waiting for since about 1978. Duly observed with eclipse viewer from five years ago. Venus moved across the lower part of the Sun from left to right, from about 7 o'clock at 0700 to about 5 o'clock at 1100. It was quite clearly a disc, a small black circle perhaps of the proportion of a pea to a dinner plate or a marble to a dustbin lid. (That clears up my 'should Venus be visible as a disc') question. I let C. and D. at work have a look through my viewer.

Oddly the disc thing brought home how far away Venus is. If you know it's 8,000 miles across but it looks like a tiny circle, it must be really far away. Things that just appear as points don't give the same impression.

Hot day, lovely warm 'spacious' evening. When I'm not catastrophising, I like this place.

Warm, damp day.

Misty, damp day.

Very warm and sunny again. Have really had the 'spacious' feeling this long weekend: with all the windows open, the sitting outside etc.

Bright sunny weather most of the day.

Still warm today, with a South wind.

Reverse weather to the last few days: cloudy in the morning, clearing to clear sky and 'seaside' conditions in the afternoon (by which I mean warm sun, fresh breeze).

Another gorgeous morning, followed by a cloudier day.

Beautiful cloudless morning, which was welcome as I felt tired. Also a warm, peaceful evening, even though it had clouded over rather by then.

Again cool but bright.

Cool but bright with big white clouds. And beautiful clear evening sky. Sometimes I really like this flat. I've got sky views 360° if I care to look at them.

Weather much colder, with NE wind, and rain in the morning. Cleared to a bright afternoon with cold wind and hot sun, a bit like being at the beach.

Cooler today, and cloudy with heavy rain early in the evening.

Really beautiful weather today. Did some height calculations with building shadows.

Am really enjoying these warm evenings. I have all the windows open, and if the noise gets too much, I put Radio 3 on.

Gorgeous weather.

Beautiful weather - had all the windows open in the afternoon and evening. Even heard a cuckoo.

Beautiful sunny day.

Very pleasant weather though; walking home it was golden and hazy and exactly the right temperature for the clothes I had on - like walking through warm water.

Beautiful spring day, with daisies and may blossom and intense dark green grass.

Everything feels very damp, and indeed a white mist has come down. Unusual. I half expect my pen to furrow the paper like the Collector's once the rains begin.

Another grey, dull day with some drizzle in the afternoon.

Grey, uninviting day, so stayed in and watched Buffy while sorting out my paper trays.

Some good heavy rain in the evening.

Unusually walked to work, having driven yesterday. I thought it'd be a good idea to put a walk in the bank on a day when it wasn't raining.

More heavy rain today.

Rained heavily almost all day. Had to go out and pump up the car tyres during it. When I got back inside I did enjoy the feeling of being indoors while it was dark and rainy outside.

'Bright white' weather today, rather humid. Walking along Chester Road to get to the park, was taken aback by combination of white sky, big red brick wall and prominent corner brick house. I got an extraordinary impression of visiting grandparents as a kid. Not a negative impression, but a strange one.

Great thunderstorm last night. Everyone was complaining about how much sleep they'd lost. I on the other hand only woke up once. Had flash of insight - usually the neighbours only have to cough for me to wake up, it must be only noises that I think I should be able to stop that disturb me.

Another windows-open day, a bit cloudier than yesterday.

Gorgeous weather today. Had the windows open all afternoon and evening.

A fine warm day today. Particularly nice walking home. It's great how quickly one forgets how sere and dull everything was in the winter, now there's leaves and blossom everywhere, and blue sky.

Rather a lot of rain today, fortunately almost all after I'd got home.

Bright morning with strong sunshine. Enjoyed walking underneath the blossoming trees on the way down from the car park at work. White flowers against deep blue sky, quite sublime.
The view from my bedroom window has had its spring transformation into leafy loveliness. It's so pleasing to look out and see greenness instead of bare branches.

Interesting rainy weather, which made it cosy and enjoyable to be working inside.

Really beautiful weather in the afternoon. Walking home had feeling of opening up to the spring after the long winter.

Wonderful golden weather, slightly hazy.

Very damp morning, with a sort of hazy brightness later.

Up at 5.15 to go to London for the wedding. It was a dark grey drizzly morning, rather reminiscent of that grey day I went into London in Oct 1987 - I ended up meeting more than 1 gay bloke this time though.

The sun made an appearance about 7pm, coming home I could see the sunset in my mirrors on the A120. Eventually home, very tired, at 7.50 pm.

Golden day.

Colder today, with some impressive cumulonimbus clouds in the afternoon and evening.

Fine bright morning, later very windy with cold heavy showers. My standby umbrella blew inside out on the way home, but I used the wind to blow it right side in again.

Beautiful spring weather in the morning. Poplar trees over to the West have got green leaves on them: odd to see them greeny-brown after being stark black for the last five months.

Came on to rain in the afternoon, cosily beating against the windows.

Once again, beautiful weather most of the day - clouded over in the afternoon.

Beautiful weather again. Clear blue sky all day, and now after sunset still clear, but a wonderful dull orange-rose on the western horizon, shading upwards through wine-coloured light to blue.

Clocks having gone forward, coming out of work in the afternoon was surprised to find everything blue, yellow and warm rather than red, orange and chilly. I know I said the same last year, but the feeling of 'spaciousness' conveyed by the clear blue sky, warm wind and birdsong shouldn't go unrecorded.

Beautiful morning - warm, sunny, birds singing. An authentic bit of Spring weather.

Sun and big white clouds.

Sun and showers again.

Heavy showers and sun again. Sun in the morning, showers in the afternoon; got soaked by very heavy, cold, vertical rain on way home.

Heavy showers with sun in between. Couple of good rainbows.

Warm; blue sky and daffodils in the afternoon. Pleasant, muddy spring smell. Some nice patches of clear, blue-green sky at sunset - sun setting noticeably further round to the west than before.

Mild, windy day.

Chilly, rainy day.

Much warmer and brighter today. On way back from wedding rehearsal stopped to admire stars in dark country sky: simply dripping with stars in Orion region, sure I saw 7 Pleiades. Could see down to 29½°S (bottom of 'coathanger' in Canis Major) without even trying, and there was a lot of blank sky below that.

Gloomy, rainy day.

Unexpectedly cold.

Big blue and white spring day. Mae hi'n braf the Welsh would say, 'brave' a good word for today's weather.

Another rainy day.

Bit brighter, less rain.

Rainy, cold day.

Damp, grey, misty day.

Another bright cold day. Deceptive weather though, bright and warm inside but still wintry cold outside, with bare branches except for blossoming blackthorn.

Sun high enough to make spring seem a real possibility (noticed blackthorn blossom out yesterday).

Walked to work through the snow.

Cold, clear day. My walk home was in sunlight at least as far as Tescos. Spring's on its way. That fresh smell was in the air in the evenings a week ago. These phenomena are sort of the opposite to the first slanted sunlight towards the end of August.

Very cold, but bright.

On the road by 8.30, got to Walthamstow at 11, through rain and snow. Away at 12.30, took the N Circular and the A13 to Lakeside, which I reached in about an hour in driving rain.

Cold grey wet day, clearing at sunset to show Venus and the New Moon bright against the dark blue sky.

Cold, dry, grey, icy wind again.

Dry and very cold, with icy NE wind, big grey clouds and patches of blue sky.

Grey and gloomy most of the day, but a clearer period late in the afternoon with areas of blue sky and those flattish, fragmented clouds that look like the top of Canada.

Very cold and dry. Fine night with bright, cold fiery stars. Phone call from S. wanting to know their names - and lots of other astro-facts, which I was pleased to supply, having been really interested in astronomy myself at his age, and indeed earlier.

Really worryingly mild weather. I wonder if Dubya still doesn't believe in global warming? I mean, I've been convinced since about 1980, but even the insurance companies started believing in it c. 1996. Wasn't that telling?

Windy with big grey stratocumulus. Quite enjoyable actually.

Mild, but hazy grey and raining hard in the morning.

No new snow - but yesterday's had frozen hard, making walking treacherous. Very clear sky, so had a binocular sweep for Venus at lunchtime, but had to give up without seeing it.

Woke up to find a couple of inches of snow had fallen, as forecast. Hope I never lose the thrill of waking up to fresh snow. Now that I'm old and cautious, I duly wrapped up in extra socks and big boots, and walked to work.

Enjoyed watching the students frolicking in the snow at lunchtime. I like it when humans display animal behaviour in a positive way, it makes them seem understandable.

Began snowing again very hard about 4pm - strong North wind produced the closest thing to a blizzard I've ever seen. Quite exciting to walk home in. And I was glad I hadn't driven when I saw the traffic inching along. It was good to get homeinto the warm though. I'd forgotten how much extra effort walking in boots in the snow is.

Bright and cold again.

Bright, with a dry breathless cold. X. said it was like central China, where he'd just come back from.

Bright and cold again.

Bright, sunny cold day.

Much colder; rained again, but it wasn't so dark.

Wet, dark, raining again.

Wet, miserable day.

Raining at 6am, carried on till 10am. Then sunny, but raining again at 10pm.

Beautiful clear, calm morning at 6.50am, with a bright half moon setting.

Very cold and dark, with rain later.

Cold and bright.

Clear, bright and cold. Full Moon, stars and Venus quite splendid in the very dark blue sky at going-home time.

Weather cold and dark and sort of 'stagnant' in the morning, with drizzle. Cleared later and got colder: saw Venus just after 4pm when the sun had only just set.

Dark, rainy morning, but duly went for my pre-breakfast stroll. It brightened up considerably later - that January 'return of the cumuli' thing in evidence.

Some long spells of sun today.

Today cold and bright.

Very dull, wet day.