Heading for 10 day heatwave of over 30. It gets boring. Lying down a lot, reading a bit, have sore leg still. I say reading but after about 4 pages I drop off. So lose the thread. The view from my desk. The green bag is covering the mechanism of the bowling machine in case of rain!. England playing Argentina in semifinal of World Cup. The halves are broken by hydration breaks. This one straw bale gets caught by the early morning sun which I see from my bedroom window about 5am. Painting this scene And on paper. Today, 19th we have yet another Prime Minister. Andy Burnham. Fun with pastels. A lot of excitement among twitchers as an Asian long tailed shrike is in Eastleach. Taken by Forbes family. I'm doing a butterfly check and this red buddleia is a favourite for them as well as bumblebees and hummingbird hawk moths. Now that we are under a hosepipe ban these little daisies ...