DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY - SAYING 'HI' COSTS A LOT.

 The nice part time lady was at the post office counter today.  Even so, there was no straight answer  given to my question about the cost of posting a card abroad, it all depended on the weight, I was told.  "A normal sized, average, possibly, even below averaged sized card," I said, "I do not send big ones." "Uhm, difficult to say," was the reply.  I nudged a bit more, asking about the basic cost and was then informed. 

The stamp price for sending a card to Europe, up to 20gms has risen to 87p.  My brain  was thinking it might have gone up from 60p or so last year, to say, 70p.  Obviously that was me being too optimistic.  "And did I have the airmail stickers for them?"  There was no charge for them (yet), so I decided to add the ones offered to my small collection, just in case someone has a brain aberration brainwave and institutes charges for stickers.  It would not surprise me if we are charged for writing in cards in due course.  It makes you wonder what miniscule weight  ink or pencil lettering might add.

MY HEAVENS!

My heavens....they have opened with torrential hailstones and heavy vertical rain. It feels as if the temperatures have fallen by about 4 degrees Celsius, at least. Where was Summer and should I now be asking where is Autumn?

It's amazing what else comes via airmail, that is apart from torrential hailstones and curtains of rain. I received a superb light green cabbage,which was hurled over the six feet high garden fence this morning. The cabbage landed on the grass and was invitingly waiting for me to take delivery of it. It would sit well in any vegetable produce show. It is huge!

In between stormy bursts, we wandered to the local supermarket just to break into the building sense of cabin fever. The weather forecasters foretell that we have a whole week of this strange and inhospitable weather to look forward to.