Another day another heatwave. Lola and I were up early, to achieve plenty of cooler weather walking and domestica. Freeing up the hotter hours for chatter and chilling. A meeting in the morning required not one but two iced coffees. Then there was an art attack. Not of the Coronary variety. ( I may be from Essex, but I do not drop my aitches, although curiously we do pronounce aitch as haitch)

An actual art attack, when a piece of original art fell off the wall and landed noisily between myself and my gentleman companion. Cool, even in a heatwave we did not skip a beat. Exchanging funny anecdotes is not the time for drama of the arty sort.

Swimming was the antidote to both the heat and art attacks.

Less people than the day before, so no need to create a postcard image to protect the identity of beach goers. No big boats to watch. Just a really fast lifeboat. So fast I missed it twice.

And a cute sailing boat, the sailing boat did, however, need the postcard effect because the photo was so bad.

To create the postcard I used the colours of the rocks of Firestone Bay to fill in all the detail lost by very bright sunlight.

Et Voilà

Not all heatwave days are the same even in the exact same location. Unexpected things always add a different texture to a day.

The bonus of yesterday, was meeting so many people, unexpectedly, for random conversations whilst we were all dodging the effects of overheating.

Overnight we had huge electric storms. The heatwave may be over, we are back to greige, how very drear!