"Red sky at Night...

...Shepherds delight.

Red in the Morning; Sailors take warning".

I can't remember who was the first person to quote this old saying to me but it always springs to mind when I see a sky like this...
...especially as we had such awful thunder storms on Sunday (yes; storms plural). We had the lot - thunder, lightening, roaring torrential rain and hail...well they said it was hail...it was more like dirty great chunks of ice bombarding everything.

So to have a reasonable day on Monday was a vast improvement and when this appeared...
...I thought the forecasters had got it wrong and we would have a good Tuesday. Nope!

Tuesday was cold, damp, windy and just yuck and although today (Wednesday) sees the start of a new month - I'm not holding out any great hopes for August based on this morning's outlook...it might be dry but boy are there some large black clouds hovering about.

I nearly forgot to show you this...
...a lone Olympic flag stood in the middle of the Barleylands car park.

As I was over there early for the Members weekend on Friday the car park was pretty empty at this point and this bright banner certainly stood out.

There are more around the outside of the site - all bright orange.

On Canvey as you reach the island there are the same large banners around the Waterside Farm roundabout but they are bright blue...I wonder if the folk concerned got to pick the colours?

With the weather not looking too promising, I think it is a day to go hunting a new washing machine - catch up with you all later.............................