Drizzle and breezes

There is an interesting phenomenon on Skye called "weather".

In the summer months (that's the ones when it is daylight until midnight and then the sun rises again about at 3.30am), together with almost unbroken sunshine, we mostly get just drizzle or breezes.

Today, the "drizzle" is lashing horizontally at the windows as I write, but I know the wind is only blowing gently because Alistair the shorts-clad postman managed to shout "bit breezy today" through clenched teeth against the hurricane as he fought to prevent all of his letters being sucked out of his wee red van while he leapt out to deliver today's post to the Barn.

The good news is that all the recently dried up burns are gurgling gleefully again, and the waterfalls are back to their former glory.

And do we care about the wind...oops...breeze? Of course not. If we light the wood burner in the living room in the late afternoon, by 7.00pm the temperature is up to "full sauna" and we are throwing open doors and windows.

This is the Isle of Skye..... what a wonderful place!