Shaft of sunlight and banks of clouds fight for ascendancy as mountains fade out. Not photoshopped. Actually not easy to tell for much of the day whether it is cloud or Saharan dust obscuring mountains and sea. And that in the intervals between showers. Dust alert today. Should leave a brief season between Mediterranean dust alerts and Canadian forest fire smoke alerts.
Is definitely spring here, though, and in Canada would pass for summer. Temperatures now hitting twenty plus. Just very indecisive.
According to the meteorologists the dust will “vanish” at midnight. Quite possibly. It will be too dark to tell.
Make rock cakes today with half of the remaining butter. Internet pleased to explain that the recipe became popular because it was easy for children learning to bake (true). Also many sites explaining that it was recommended as a UK wartime recipe because it used small amounts of rationed ingredients. Eggs (one, OK - though adult egg ration was one per week). Sugar (50 grams, not bad). Raisins. Butter (100 grams. WHOA! For much of the war the butter ration was 2 oz per week. A hundred grams is 3.5 ounces. That’s nearly two weeks’ butter ration to make a dozen biscuit sized rock cakes!). Can only conclude that cheerful info re value as wartime recipe comes from people born post war. Actually well after the war as UK rationing didn’t end until 1954.
Note that these conclusions based on my knowledge of history and not personal wartime memories.
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