Wake up around five to thunder and lightning (unhelpful predictive text wanted me to say lightening, but it was definitely pre-dawn). Real morning not thundery but definitely dark and rainy. Badly engineered drains in the street outside not keeping up, as usual, cars driving through with huge wakes behind. Supposed to go to Jane and Bill’s for lunch and not keen on umbrellas at the bus stop. White caps on the sea, and palm trees indicating enough wind that umbrellas probably useless. Jane calls to say that Bill will pick us up. Take both umbrellas and sunglasses. Bill’s arrival with the car and the umbrellas do it - sun comes out temporarily. B a super pastry maker and steak and kidney pie a treat. Between showers, Joe and Bill take the drills out and finish the repairs they started on the car port before the drill battery died.
As a plane flies overhead Bill tells us that the Tornado fighter jets at the British base at Akrotiri have all left. Apparently their last mission was a strike on ISIS in Syria last Thursday. Typhoons remain and there is speculation the base will acquire F35 jets as well.
For a week with this much rain there has been remarkably little time for reading, leaving 147 pages to go in a book that we have in theory for one more day. But how many hours? Should be two weeks from borrowing, which both of us remember as a week ago Sunday. Doesn’t match up, so I take screenshots of the remaining pages. It’s a good book - and there are 20 people on the waiting list.