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.