Weather is happening

Here it is cold, wet and extremely windy. It isn't cold cold. You would not confuse the weather with January. However today is doing a very good impression of October, or even early November!

The weather forecast has the temperature at 16 degrees, the temperature that, in the old days, was the minimum for working in an office. Of course, that doesn't take into account the howling wind and horizontal rain that is making it feel so much colder.

So I was a little surprised when they turned up to paint the sills of our house. I was also a bit nervous. One young lad was going up ladders, in cold, damp and windy conditions, in just trainers! However it is done, and that's fine (with a few smudges, which is probably the weather). The roofer did hint about getting the drainpipes done, but that can definitely wait!

Then, as PMT was biting hard, I went to get some chocolate from the nice newsagents. And in front of me was a young girl in a sun dress! Seriously, a thin, strappy, t-shirt-material sun dress. At least it was maxi length. The poor girl looked perished! The sun dress was smart and pretty, but the goosebump look is rarely attractive.

I am wearing a sweater!