Rowan Tree and Red Thread

We're off in the car down to sammywol 's parents for a few days.
The weather of the last couple of weeks, days of sunshine and record
temperatures, has disappeared into the rainclouds, leaving us to drive along
wet, greasy roads, spraying plumes as we go.

Many people in town have been caught unprepared for the traditional Irish
summer to reassert itself and are plodding about in damp summery clothes.
Perhaps they are not so much unprepared as disbelieving, refusing to except
the meteorological truth, clinging to the memory of sunshine despite the
'soft day'.

The three of us are heading down the country today, but I'll be back in Cork
tomorrow night, ready for work on Monday. Wife and daughter are staying on a
couple more days to enjoy grandma's membership in a local gym with a
swimming pool. Met Eireann promises the return of the good weather for
Monday, so there may be beach picnics in the offing too.