To Saddle Up Another Year
Apparently, the weather is due to change this week. I haven’t got any stats, but my experience of September has been generally warm and dry. I went out for a short walk this evening and put my jacket on, but was too warm – a short sleeved shirt was fine. There’s nothing especially unusual about that, and the phrase ‘Indian Summer’ is part of common vocabulary, but my impression is that it has been consistently warm and dry all month, rather than in short bursts.
I’ve noticed it at night. Instead of a duvet, I’ve been sleeping under one or two thermal throws and have been perfectly warm and comfortable. Perhaps the duvet will be required in October, but who knows?
The emergent view at the Met. Office is apparently that conditions look right for a hard winter. Whether or not this will actually happen remains to be seen, but it would be just our luck if it turned out that way just when the country is experiencing an energy supply crisis on top of the other supply crises we’re undergoing. Apparently, countries in the European Union that we left are not experiencing these things. Fancy that!
Sleep has also been helped by an absence of coffee. I gave up coffee for a long time when it became clear that it was acting as a migraine trigger, in conjunction with other factors. Since retirement, I got into the habit of having a couple of coffees over breakfast, but no more. This has been fine, and I haven’t had any migraines, but I was starting to feel ropey and not sleeping well. So I’ve cut it out again, for a while at least. I haven’t had any tea either, apart from green tea Amy bought me from China a few years ago. I have been drinking herbal infusions and orange juice, and maybe some red wine, and feel the better for it, or at least for the absence of caffeine.
I had a decent afternoon at the keyboard this afternoon, I’m pleased to say. Fingers crossed I can pick up the reins of the work in progress and push it towards a completed first draft over the next couple of months – I know where the story is going, just not quite how it’s going to get there. Then the real work begins.
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