Is it winter in Pannal

It is perishing here and there is a lot of rain.  Central heating on. Can't get doing summer things. No long warm evenings in the garden come to that no long warm days either. We have a little stream at the bottom of the garden which is now not a little stream. Even the cats Marble and Tigs think it is winter and come in to lie in their beds. When I open the door for them to go out I get a you are joking look. From what people have told me I do not think the Jubilee event at St Robert's church was a success. Not many people turned up. There was a lot of memorabilia for the last sixty years. As well as my books, photograph albums and cuttings of the village I had kept my Coronation mug presented to all children in 1953, Silver Jubilee mug and a mug I had given from Dunlopillo now no longer there. Unfortunately the ghastly office block still dominates the village but the company and all the workers gone. It its place is a business park and horror of horrors a concrete batching plant. Down my end of the village it is quiet but at the top there are concrete lorries coming in and out. A loop hole in planning allowed them to be there. Spent a day running in and out trying to put some bedding plants in the flowerbeds. Everything is gigantic because of all the rain and very green. Our roses on the bungalow walls are out and very beautiful they are. They have been there 45 years now and have featured in many magazines. Wonder how long they will go on. Hoping for summer soon.