Monday 17th June

That severe overnight storm was last night, and it was indeed very bad, I lay in bed listening to it, and Bubbles hunkered down in the back of the closet.

It is now definitely summer with consistent temperatures like this,  up in the 90s.

 Although the morning starts off cooler...

All those orange dots represent a McDonalds in the United States.  No wonder every second person in the population is clinically obese.
I wondered how many there were locally, and it is no surprise it is so densely orange in Oklahoma.  There are: - 24 in Oklahoma City - 3 in Shawnee - 7 in Norman - 3 in Midwest City and 3 in Moore.

Apart from absorbing facts like that on television I have just been reading, and working on my needlepoint.   I thought my foot was feeling better today, although it's a bit painful this evening.  I am going to the doctor tomorrow.

The holiday snaps......

Jeremy took me to some lovely places for meals and here we are in a country house hotel.

Pat in Alfriston, approaching the church and the village green, called The Tye, where they have dog shows and fetes, and village events. 

Also in Alfriston, Pat and I stopped at a teashop.  It dates from 1510 and had been the village bakery for 200 years until 1933. I think only in England would I have a pot of tea like this.