I Love The Rain

A Wet Fen Morning

   I sit here with my cuppa watching the heavy rain shower falling here in the fens, dark wild skies race over towards the coast full of black rain clouds, my feelings are we will be in for a very wet November day. I must admit I love this kind of morning, sitting warm while the cold rain falls, there is nothing better than being in the dry with the rain just feet from you, it's a feeling only bettered by that of traveling in a car at night with the rain banging on the roof.
   I remember as a kid being in my dads car on the way home from a day with family, I would sit huddled in that large leather covered back seat watching the rain and lights outside, we would stop and pick up fish and chips and the smell was great as they were placed next to the car heater helping them stay warm. Those big old cars were so very different to those we drive now, in minutes we are now warm yet in those days it took ages for the heater to warm up and I don't think I ever got warm sitting in the back, I still remember how cold the seat was when you touched your hand on it and there was always that faint smell of petrol when you first got in.
   Yesterday afternoon I managed to have a good bonfire burning yet more of the cut down conifers, I think it will take most of the winter to get them all down and burnt but it will be well worth all the effort, the thought of my new kitchen garden drives me on and I can't wait to start building the raised beds. Apart from buying some timber it's a project thats is just costing time and effort and I can always find both.
   There are a few things I may need so they might have to be placed on my christmas list, seeds etc and a few more small bits and pieces. This weekend I'm hoping to make a few ceramic herb plant markers ready for my herb pots, I'm starting to realise just how many things can be made from ceramics, even little cane caps to place on the end of my garden canes to protect my eyes when bending over the beds, little things I know but they will be my personal little additions.
   Well it's time for work and the sky seems to be brighter, fingers crossed it may end up a dry day after all.