It's quite easy to tell that this is a bank holiday weekend because of the weather. We had been blessed with a couple of weeks of warm, sunny weather but now we seem to have returned to winter.
I have no objection to it raining because the garden really needs it especially as April lacked the showers that we usually get. What annoys me though is the cold wind that we have at the moment. It's always the way, just as soon as the garden is sporting a particularly good display of flowers, such as my wallflowers at the moment, the wind and rain flatten them down completely. They look a particularly sad and sorry sight today.
With any luck, they may pick themselves up again. I can only live in hopes.
In the past, the same fate has overcome other flowers in my garden. I used to plant tulips and daffodils, then in the spring and just as they were at their best, we would get strong wind and rain which would break them off so I don't plant them anymore. My garden seems to be afflicted with this problem more than others and I think it's probably because there is a wall all around it and also the situation in relation to the other houses. The wind comes racing down the street which acts as a wind tunnel, then over the wall into the garden where it becomes a mini whirlwind and can't get out again.
The forecast says the sun will be out tomorrow but although rain is not forecast, we will still have the cold wind for most of this week so I won't put away my thick woollies just yet.
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