To therapy in that fine rain that soaks everything, for what was indeed my final therapy session.

0700 FINE RAIN
0900 stops
Some sun
1730 8 dark Sc
SHOWER

Some sun
HOT

Some sun

Dank unpleasant weather for the last day off work.

8 Sc
DROPS OF RAIN
Breezy

8 Sc
Breezy
1630 RAIN

Rather nice day, hot and bright, but pleasantly cool inside.

Btw, something I've never noticed in my previous residences at this time of year, is that there's a lot of overlap between when there's light in the sky very late, and very early. So for example the view out of the bathroom window is due North, and it's almost as light at 0250 as it is at 2230.

Typically 4 Cu, Ac Sun
HOT
Breezy

8 Sc
Breezy
Cooler
1630 DROPS OF RAIN

Cooler than yesterday, thank goodness.

<=8 Some sun
Windy
HOT

<=8 Some sun
HOT
Windy

<=8 Some sun
1040 HUGE DROPS OF RAIN
->Breezy

Another unpleasantly hot day. Think I'm not the only person who's fed up with this weather now.

Ci Sun
VERY HOT

Hot weather becoming a bit of a bore - over 90° in bedroom at 5.30pm two days in a row, and that's with the curtains closed.

<8/8 Sun-through
PM Clearer
VERY HOT

My min/max thermometer reads high when it's sunny, because the side of the house traps heat, but it logged 37°C yesterday.

Very hot last night, had to wrap an ice pack from the freezer in a t-shirt and hug it to get to sleep. NB it stayed cold till it was no longer needed.

>0 Ci Sun
VERY HOT

0700 0 Sun
1000 1 Cu cells VERY HOT
->->6 large Cu
1500 0

Sun Cs, Ci, Cu
VERY HOT

Sun 0->7
HOT

Sun Cu, Ci
HOT
Breezy

1100 IN AREA
~4 Ci Sun HOT

Spent some time looking at the view North from the clinic staircase, featuring the Post Office Tower and many other high buildings.

Walked back through the heat, perhaps for the last time. Interesting that the first leg, to Barnes Common, was the shortest. It seemed the longest that freezing, misty January day when I first went to Putney.

Up at 3.30 to beautiful calm clear dawn, Venus seen. Got a lot done before 8.30!
Something fine and heroic about having been up and busy since very early, and then noticing that the sun is bright enough to turn the lights off.

0330 0 *
->
0900 2-8
Sun Cu
Windy
1100 OUT OF AREA

Sun
Ac-allop
Breezy
1630 WINDY

Sun
0900 4 Ac
1200 6 Ac, Cu
HOT
->clearer
Windy

Sun Cu
1340 SHOWER

Some sun
Windy
2200 RAIN

~5 Cu, Ci
Sun
Windy
1830 3/8 dirty Cu/As Sun-through
->RAIN, stops <2130

Off at 1145 into relentless rain, and wind not from south as advertised, but right in my face. After seemingly endless ascent of Milestone Road got to surgery at 1245, wet as a haddock's pocket. Was kept waiting, damply reading the paper till 1330, but the doctor did apologise.

Walked home again. Woman at Co-op very nice. Perhaps she felt sorry for me looking so bedraggled.

Just as I got home, the rain stopped. Pleasure to dry out and warm up, then have hot bath.

0600 Some RAIN
Windy - small branches off trees
->HEAVY RAIN
1445 Lessens
1515 stops
1600 HEAVY RAIN
1700 Sun 6 Cu
1830 RAIN
1840 stops. Sun. CuNi anv. seen retreating E.

Some sun
Windy
1740 RAIN
2030 cont

4 Cu Sun
Cooler out of sun
1700 <8

Very damp smell outside in the morning. Like walking through a forest.

->PM 5 Cu Sun
HOT
->Cu flattening

Strawberries coming on well, took anti-snail precautions.

Some sun
->
1400 SHOWER
1700 HEAVY THUNDER SHOWER
-> RAIN

Hot day but with just enough breeze to make it pleasant.

<4 Sun HOT
N breeze

8->
1830 6 Ac, Ci
Sun WARM

Some sun
more PM

Some good thunder about 2am, a hot, mostly grey day today.

Some sun
->8
HOT

Sun Much cloud
HOT
->8
1730 SHOWER
~0130 RAIN
0200 THUNDER

6 am it seemed like it'd be another day just like yesterday, so at 8.45 I went off to Tescos for another cold lunch. When I arrived there I looked back west and saw cloud coming up, with spindly Cu towers, and when I was on my way back there were bubbly, castellanus-esque Ac, and then a mass of flat, stormy cloud came up from the west, there was a rumble of thunder while I was still crossing the park, and just after I got home a good heavy thunder shower.

After that though the weather went back to pattern.

Real change in the atmosphere of the election after the long-term care thing.

0700 0 Sun HOT
0900 Developing Cu, Ci seen in W
0930 Bubbly Ac, Ni from W
1000 HEAVY THUNDER SHOWER
->Sun HOT
1700 6 Ci

Flawless day, very hot. Too hot for a spring morning.

Hot, bright afternoon spent inside in cool, pleasant dimness. I'd had my fill of sun on the morning walk.

0 Sun
VERY HOT
Same all day
Breezy

Really hot last night, had to have a fan on all night, which is very unusual.

0 Sun
same all day
VERY HOT

Much sun
Cu

Rather nice cold lunch of pork pie, plum tomatoes and potato salad.

Much sun
1730 Some Cu fairly developed

Much sun
Warm
1800 Cc seen

Varying Ci Sun
Breezy
Warm

3½ years I've been going there now. When I started I was walking up there every week. Those damp pre-spring fences and trees in early 2014!

0700 0 Sun
0900 3 small Cu
1100 6 Cu
1300 8
SQUALLY SHOWER
1500 SHOWER
1800 8 Sc
1900 ~3 Sun WINDY

More dark skies and rain in the morning, suitable for come-down day. Was a bit subdued.

1000 RAIN
stops
Some sun

More rain last night just as forecast.

0800 6 Sun
->more cloud
1500 Darker
1600 RAIN
2000 cont.

Rain in the night, horrible damp humid day. A suitable day for thinking reproachful thoughts.

0400 RAIN
1900 RAIN

Ac, Ci, Sc
Some sun
1630 SHORT SHOWER

Another gloomy morning with rain.

0600 8 RAIN
~1500 stops

Rain at first, quite nice later.

0800 8 RAIN
->clearing
1400 6 large Cu Sun
1500 5 medium Cu

Quite enjoyed the dullness of the walk back - it reminded me of dull Saturday afternoons 35 years ago, when 4 free hours were a chore to fill rather than a pleasure.

RAIN overnight
<8 Sc
Some sun but often GLOOMY
1800 6 Ci, Ac Sun

AM 8 Sc & dark Sc
PM ->6 Ci Sun

Much sun
Warmer
Breezy
Pressure dropping

Much nicer weather.

0700 0 Sun
0900 2 Cu cells
->typically 4 Ci

8.

Can't really complain about today, because I didn't have a headache, and I thought it'd be a gloomy dull day, but the sun has been out since after lunch.

0900 8
[s -->]
1400 some sun
1800 4 Cu

Gloomy dark morning, but the day warmed and brightened up for my trip to town.

0900 8
PM <8 Sun breaks

8
Some sun-breaks

Lovely weather at first, but clouded right over very quickly.

0900 6 Cu Sun
Wind E
->->
1030 8 Sc
cont

8
Breezy PM

Rainy day, so didn't go out other than to take the car round the block.

8
RAIN at times

8
BRIGHT

Planned the day round predicted showers 12-2pm, which did arrive, but when I went out to Tesco in the afternoon there were further showers.

0300 RAIN
1100 LIGHT SHOWER
Wind E
1415 LIGHT SHOWER
1500 LIGHT SHOWER
->
1900 4 Ci, Cu Sun

<=8 Ac, Cu Sun

Upstairs in the April evening sunlight said to myself 'Make the most of this - this is the happy ending.

Cloud decreasing
Sun
1500 4 Ac
1900 0

Warmer
Cu decreasing Sun

AM <8 Cu; Sc Sun
PM LIGHT RAIN

COLD
Sun Huge Cu
HEAVY SHOWERS

0700 Sun
COLD
~4 Cu
2000 0

Early sun
OCCASIONAL RAIN from 1100, more p.m.

Sun
Cool
1900 6/8 Ci/Cs

RAIN overnight?
<=8
Bright

Duly went to the Co-op. One of those calm spring days with bright grey sky and light green leaves. I walked very slowly across the park, and everything looked new. On the way back had a quick sit down on one of the benches.

8. Calm

1100 0/8 As Sun
->
1900 8 Sc

Got some photos of the view from the hospital window once the sun had gone behind a tree.

Picked up at 2pm, home via London Colney. Quite pleasant talk. A strange journey though! with sun in yellow-grey bright sky, like the fairground scene in The Girl Who Was Death.

1730 IN AREA
Sun 4/8 small Cu/Cs
->
2000 0
->*

Beautiful weather in the morning, but apparently very cold outside.

EASTER MONDAY.

It rained during the night, which was a restful sound.

Couple of sun-breaks in the afternoon, hurried to look at the sun. Also went and peered boldly out into the hospital corridor. Can't see much, but it's more than I can see inside the room. Also sat with door open for quite a while.

Up at five and took a fine picture of the cloud-wracked Moon between two of the tall buildings to the west, later another of the sunrise on the other side.

There's something about these bright spring mornings that I associate with momentous events - probably from my first day at school, and the elections.

Very pleasant walk to Wimbledon, over the River Wandle and up and down hills, a bright green and blue and white day with a strong cool North breeze.

This time (5.35pm) tomorrow I may over the line. I can't quite see the sun from the window, but it is westering away to the right. It will soon be sunset and, all things being equal, for the last time the White Knight will sing his farewell song.

0700 8 S
->some Sun
1030 OUT OF AREA

0600 ~2 Sun
->
1900 ~7 Ci, Cs, Ac

0700 ~4 Ac Sun
->
1800 <8 Sc

Hot and sunny - summery. Up at 6.30 - the earliest I think I've been up on a normal Sunday for many years.

0 Sun
HOT
Breezy

Weather even lovelier than yesterday.

<=1 Sun

Another lovely day, still cool in the shade though.

<=1 Sun

Lovely weather, very spring-like.

~1 Sun

Some sun

Typically 8 low S, but some sun c.1500

0700 8 low S
->
1200 ~5 Ac Sun

Rather nice sunny day with big clouds and pleasant coolness.

2-8 large Cu
Sun

~6 Cu, Ac Sun
2030 DROPS OF RAIN 8

On the way to work actually I found myself fizzing with energy, in a way that I associate with this time of year when the spring is getting going.

Fine starry evening. New Moon with Earthshine, Sirius & Procyon, Orion and the Twins marching away into the twilight having seen us safely through another winter.

8 '9p' Cs
->6 Ci Sun
1900 0
->Moon *

Some sun
Warm

RAIN overnight
<=8
some sun
1700 SPOTS OF RAIN

Very foggy in the morning, had to proceed in third gear on the secret back route on my way back from Sainsburys.

0500 SKY OBSCURED
FOG
1000 8 low cloud
1200 4 Ci Sun
1900 <8 Ci, S

0700 8
low cloud ->
1200 Sun

~ /6 Ci
Cs..As..Cs/8, at times
Sun

Coming back from the Co-op, NE wind strong and cold, contrasting with the hot sun and blue sky in the way it does on the east coast some days in summer.

Beautiful starry night later.

Windy NE
Sun 0..5

Warm in the sun but goodness, cold out of it.

Much sun
Breezy
Cold

Breezy
Sun later

Realised at 12.30 that I'd not got my office keys, and I thought I'd be alone in the office in the afternoon because everyone else would go to the staff meeting. So I hurried home to get them, in wind and rain.

Some sun
Windy S
1230 RAIN
8 Sc '9p'
1400 stops
->some sun

Bright and cold.

<=4 Sun
COLD

Planned my day around rain which was due ~ 4-5pm (when I walk home) so did a late start and worked till 5pm. Rain came and went as forecast.

0300 RAIN
to 0600
<=8 Sc with sun-breaks
1600 HEAVY SHOWER

<8 Sun
Windy

<=8 '9p' Sc
Some sun-breaks
Breezy
1615 DRIZZLE
2030 RAIN

Some sun
Wind cold N

0600 0
MIST
->Sun
1600 0/SKY SEMI-OBSCURED HAZE
1830 ~4

Warm in the sun but cold out of it.

<=2 Ac Sun

Some sun

Interesting weather, cold in the morning and late in the afternoon but warm in the middle of the day.

Some sun

1200 8 As
Sun-through
1530 LIGHT RAIN

Weather forecast indicated today was the best choice day to walk into town, so went.

8/<8 Cs/
Some sun

<8
some sun
1600 Slight MIST

Rather nice weather.

Sun ~3 Cu
Fresh NW breeze
Warm

Much sun

Almost as soon as I left work a massive hail shower began, and I got soaked.

~6 large Cu
Sun
1615 HEAVY HAIL SHOWER

Rain arrived as promised, made good use of my unusual Sunday in.

0900 RAIN
1100 stops
HEAVY SHOWERS
some with HAIL
Sun
2000 SHOWER

RAIN overnight
some sun

0700 RAIN
~1200 stops
2150 SHOWER

Quite windy overnight in Bracknell, but slept well again and was up at 3.50 and off by 6.15. A fine cold dry windy morning. Very windy on that viaduct on the A10.

0900 BACK IN AREA
WINDY
Sun
<=8->1
1800 Moon *

Weather bright but cold: that little park behind the hotel not frost-bound this time. You could just about believe it was the last day of winter.

0700 RAIN
0930 OUT OF AREA

Used some spare time in the afternoon to clear the fallen apples and leaves away from the crocuses in the garden.

Windy
Some sun-breaks
1700 LIGHT RAIN

RAIN in night
AM. Intermittent LIGHT RAIN
1700 RAIN

Much sun
1800 0 *

Very windy during the day today, actually left 20 minutes early as I was worried about my recycling box, which fortunately got caught in the lavender bush.

Noticed that I felt a lot better today, despite having a hangover. I think it's the first time I've felt properly well since I had the flu. Windy weather always exhilarates me.

0700 <=8
0730 SHOWER
->VERY WINDY
Some sun
1900 Wind abating

<=8 Some sun
1300 8
1600 8 Sc '9p' RAIN

<=8
0900 LIGHT RAIN
later some sun
2000 WINDY

Some sun

<=8

Just enough light to tidy up after gardening at 5.30pm. Every year it feels more as if winter will last for ever, and every year it's more of a surprise when it shows signs of finishing.

0800 8
Clearing gradually
PM Sun
1900 0 *

Some sun

<=8

0830 RAIN
0930 stops
-><8

Sat in bed listening to Silver Blaze in the bright sunny morning - nodded off twice, and when it finished at 10 am I felt recovered.

0800 0-Sun
1000 3 Ac
1700 <=8

Beautiful sunny day, but I felt awful for most of it. Quite sore from coughing.

<=3 Sun

8
Brighter pm
Breezy

Dusting of snow on the ground in the morning, and more fell all day but didn't lie.

0700 DUSTING OF SNOW
0830 SNOW
intermittent all day
Not lying

Yesterday's max/min temperatures were 2°C/1°C ! It really is cold at the moment.

0700 8
1600 <8 S, Ac Sun
1700 FLAKES OF SNOW
Very cold all day

8
0800 SNOW PELLETS
VERY COLD

8
VERY COLD
SPOTS OF RAIN

Wet in the morning, 'the sky the colour of smoke'.

0700 8 RAIN
1000 stops
1630 <8 Ac, S Sun

8

8

RAIN overnight
Some sun-breaks

Clearer
PM WINDY
1715 SHOWER
1900 SHOWER

Much better weather today; no sun but brighter and fresher.

Cleaned and vacuumed kitchen floor. It does get filthy in the winter, but then I get an even bigger psychological boost from seeing it all clean again.

Brighter
Colder
1200 SPOTS OF RAIN

Horrible weather; mist, rain and low cloud.

8 MIST
1200 RAIN

8
1500 FINE RAIN
1830 RAIN

<=8

1230 SPOTS OF RAIN
1500 LIGHT RAIN
1730 STEADY RAIN
2200 cont.

Warmer today, thank goodness. I think it was warmer at 9 am than it had been all day yesterday.

Some sun
Warmer

Another icy cold day.

8 'low wet' S
VERY COLD

Dry today but flipping freezing. Good walking weather though.

8
VERY COLD
Same all day

Horrible weather - fog and drizzle, and a penetrating cold. Am going to keep the heating on 24h pro tem, at >= 13°C, as the house is cooling down too much overnight and while I'm out.

0700 8
FOG/DRIZZLE
Same all day

Leaving heating on at 13°C seemed to work well - when I got home the house was cold, but, well, 13°C, and not damp.

1100 IN AREA ~0 Sun
FROST
Very cold
\[Min temp Sun..Tue -5°C\]
2230 FOG

Very cold day with low cloud, occasionally parting, and mist.

On the way out in the morning cunningly picked up milk in advance for the evening, guessing that the temperature would be <5°C all day, which indeed it was. Also got some hot hash browns from the takeaway counter, which really put fresh spirit into me for the long walk.

Bright, very cold morning with wonderfully complementary view to the one I described last night.

Mellow, hazy sun journey on M25 and M4, thinking of Gordon and Rosemary's outing to Burnham Beeches.

In Bracknell walked through the frost-bound park to the Morrisons.

Lovely bleak winter afternoon with low sun - coming into Hitchin, different distances in the haze were different depths of grey, like multiple cut-out sheets of cardboard. And after sunset, a rosy, wintry view uphill from the hotel with black trees in silhouette.

0600 0 FROST
->Sun
1000 OUT OF AREA

0700 FROST
VERY COLD
Much sun

0700 FROST
Much sun
VERY COLD

Really cold in the morning, so much that I left the heating on all day at 13°C lest anything freeze. Temperature down in the valley bottom -5°C!

Very bright sunrise, with chaotic contrails.

Wonderful sunset with red-lit altocumulus.

0700 FROST
-3°C
VERY COLD
->Sun
Typically 5 Ac

Another very cold day.

0700 FROST
Much sun
COLD

<=8

Rotten cold drizzly weather.

0800 8
DRIZZLE
Cold
Same all day
1800 MIST

Didn't wake up till nine, on a fine bright cold clear morning.
Rather good weather for walking about well wrapped up.

0900 0 Sun
FROST
same all day

Left house at 6.30! It reminded me of going out to do my paper round. Very cold starry pre-dawn.

0600 0 * FROST
Wind cold NW, strong
1000 SNOW

Very cold today, finally cold enough to give that HH duffle coat an outing.

0730 8 Cold
1400 <8 Sun-breaks
1900 LIGHT RAIN

In the morning a definite 'snow light' in the sky, and that particular feeling in the air too. And after raining for about 7 hours it duly did snow, leaving a thin layer which is still lying now (9.45pm).

0900 8 As 'snow light'
1000 RAIN
1700 HEAVY
1800 SNOW

Some sun AM

Home at 4.20, through rain and dark.

<=8
1300-1800 RAIN

<=8 Milder

8 Milder

<=8
1715 DROPS OF RAIN

At this time of year I've noticed I don't like going home when it's too dark, as about 4.30 I'm traversing lonely bits of the grounds. Noticed today I was just borderline happy at 4.35, 2/3 of the way through civil twilight with a clear sky.

0800 0 Sun
HEAVY FROST
Typically ~2 Ci

Some sun
2100 0 *

Thick frost and icy cold in the morning.

0700 8
THICK FROST

Took down Christmas decorations and thoroughly sorted out the crates they're kept in. Rather a pleasant task this, with the sun sparkling on the tinsel.

0900 0 Sun
COLD
Same all day

NEW YEAR'S DAY. Day had some brightness at first but soon turned dark and dull, and it's raining now (4.30pm). To the Tesco Express in the afternoon through the damp streets. There's something about New Year's Day that brings it down - the shadow of past hangovers perhaps, the end of the holidays approaching.

<=8
1330 DRIZZLE
1400 RAIN