It’s not a very pleasant day today. It’s so cloudy that the sky has been as dark as evening all day and it is raining. It has to rain sometimes, of course, but it is not welcome when it comes. The temperature is cooler than yesterday (14°C, 57°F) but, curiously, it didn’t feel cold.

Islington High Street

This photo taken at the Angel crossroads shows how miserable the conditions are.

I wasn’t inspired, photographically speaking, and only took the above snap but here are a couple by Tigger.

Garden foliage
Photo by Tigger

This view of foliage and flowers in a garden that we passed could serve as a model for William Morris to design wallpaper. Strangely, the poor light had a quality that made the plants glow even more brightly and colourfully.

We are used to seeing squirrels in our streets but just lately we have seen a lot of small squirrels rushing about. Tigger captured this one jumping from a wall. (The blur is the squirrel!)

Squirrel jumps from the wall
Photo by Tigger

I think the reason for this might be that young squirrels born earlier in the year are now leaving the maternal nest and beginning to explore the world and make their lives in it.

In view of the conditions, we only made a dash to Jusaka for coffee and put off going for a “proper” walk till the weather improves. Let’s hope it will be fine tomorrow.