It’s been a long cold winter here and still it hangs on. In about 6 weeks time it will be the longest day of the year and the nights will start drawing in again, and yet it barely feels like we have finished with winter. It’s still chilly and wet and waves of stormy weather blow through. In some parts of the UK there are still wintry showers and there was a frost somewhere in the UK every day in April.

Normally by now the shorts and flip flops start to make an appearance but it’s definitely winter coats and boots still. You can start the day with rolling waves and gale force winds, torrential rain and end with glorious sunshine. I’m not sure how it bodes for summer.

Over the next few weeks we are all set to come out of lockdown and restrictions are being lifted. Some sort of construction has started on the old wharf next to the marina so we could be set for a summer of noisy building works but no one is very sure what is going on , however our mornings over the past few days have started with thumping and banging . I’m not sure the nesting swans appreciate it much either.