The weather is still warm and dry, ideal for barbecues, but our allotment desperately needs daily watering. I am writing this in the garden. It's overcast today, but the promise of rain has yet to be delivered.Some parts of the country have had torrential rain in the last few days which has resulted in closed roads. You can hear more traffic noise now, things are slowly resuming to the way they were.
We still keep to ourselves as much as we can; we have not been to a pub, restaurant or the like since March. As the situation evolves across the country, local lock-downs have been imposed. The restrictions of these seem relatively minimal and would only force us do the things we are doing anyway.
Town centres report the number of shoppers is just over half normal. I gather there are no queues for tourist attractions in London. In general, people are not returning to "normal".
I have spent time reprogramming the weather observations pages. It is a kind of spring cleaning. It all looks the same as it did, but things are tidier.
We visited Hil's father for a socially distanced picnic by the lake where he lives. We took a camp table and chairs and sandwiches.
It's a good year for fruit (tomatoes included). The bushes are thick with blackberries, and we are picking raspberries from the allotment again.