August

It's hot, I have been working in the studio and now I'm sittting watching the bees on the lavender bush. It could be France but instead I'm in my garden in Wales. I haven't spent the summer here for ten years or more and I'm loving it. I savour each and every thing - the walk through the Cardiff streets to the studio, the trip back on the train reading my book, shopping for the evening meal and sitting in the late sunshine in the garden. It's a rediscovery of all things good about August in Britain - I even welcome the rain. And then of course there's the London Olympics to follow!