TEARS IN THE AIR AND THUMPS ON THE WINDOW

It's 8pm, very bright and chilly outside.  My washing, which the weather forecast told me I could safely put out on the line at tea time, has been blowing and drying in the wind since 5pm. The day has been mostly showery.  There was the odd hour or so gap in rain fall this morning, when at times you could feel there were light tears in the air.  The darkening skies which always arrived, told us that crying clouds were about to rain down.

A thump on the window made us jump just now. A bird has flown into the glass and either knocked itself out or, worse.

WHERE HAVE THE DAYS GONE?

My watch tells me it is  nearly 1.20 in the afternoon.  The sky is covered in heavy low, very grey clouds. It is a very dull and damp day. A little girl, aged about three, dances short steps away from her mother's side. A small space opens up. Mummy is busy at the check-out: mummy says....

Don't go too far away from mummy...

The little girl is now just a few short steps away from the wide shop window. It does not go all the way to the floor. The shop front has a substantial low wall and there is a wide window ledge that customers make use of.  Sometimes, children sit on it; children who can, play by climbing onto the window ledge and jumping off it.  The little girl is shorter than the wall.  She cannot climb upon the window ledge on her own. The window is the width of the store and it looks out onto the car park, fields, the sea and the sky. 

A different overcast sky scene at 14.43 one day in very late Autumn 2013

The little girl from her level, sees lots of low, heavy, dark grey clouds in the sky.

I'm nearly ready darling, just stay where you are... Says mummy.

It is now about 1.25 in the afternoon.  The little girl looks up and intently studies what she sees.  ... Look mummy......exclaims the little girl 

...It's nearly night time! 


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THE WINDOW

This was a view through the window, at home, yesterday morning.


By mid afternoon the rain had cleared leaving the remainder of a dreach damp day behind.


Today we have fared a bit better, though it has remained overcast. 






The spiders, obviously know where they are best off, out of nature's elements.  Their tell-tale trails are to be found in the house.  I was so taken with the artwork of the web that before I took my cleaning tools to the evidence, I  decided to take a picture of it.