Set off 4th for Portsmouth at 11.30 arrived at Holuday Inn Express by 2. Price £77 though the one at Gunwharf Quays was a hundred pounds more of course more to do there. This is more like a motel, but clean and nice big walk in shower. But nowhere really to eat and huge accident up the road so no chance of getting out so having chicken wings and macaroni, hzd hoped for a steak.
No real plans and work at Tom's house is pretty much finished. Tenant supposedly moving on Sept 1. Hottest July and the sunniest. 34 as I write this on 3rd. It's quite scary where this is going. This is the painting. This view is as you come down to meet the main road at Aldsworth. Heard two days later tenant couldn"t get guarantors. New ones ok. For those of us who can remember 1976 it was a glorious summer and now 50 years later we are having another to remember. Will it be another 50 years, probably not. The lovely creamy grasses nod at you along the country roads. I love it. And this field of corn could be France. Look at all those clouds and not a drop of rain. A track I always pass. Dead tree with owl box. Nearby semi abandoned building. The road to Meysey Hampton Feelie and I drive every week to flute. Brave little daisies in the drought. The track through the...