April Showers?

Crumbs, the weather has been odd today. We sat in the conservatory this morning and ate our breakfast there. Kim had cleared it out of the winter clutter and 'dumping ground' stuff, cleaned all the windows and it is back to being a nice place on a sunny morning.

The morning wasn't that warm (my laptop widget told me it was 8 Celsius) and we have let the rayburn go out as it was making the place too hot (though we shall light it for our weekend visitor, who isn't well padded like us) and sitting with the kitchen door open was a tad chilly around the knees. We decanted into the conservatory and it was warm and toasty with the sun streaming in.

I call it a conservatory. It was sold to us by the estate agents as an orangery; how pretentious is that? It's only a lean-to style thing slapped against the back of the house, and though we do have two baby orange trees, my idea of an orangery requires many more square feet! Still, it's a lovely sunny garden room and we can sit and watch the birds and listen to the bees humming.

Sounds like a nice day, doesn't it? Ten minutes after coming upstairs to the office and sitting down to work, there were very decent sized hail stones bouncing off the roof and taking their time to melt. Not quite what I would have had in mind for April showers, but it's never boring here in Shepton!