Written on Sunday 19th February.
This last week has been a strange sort of week. The weather has been a bit ‘all over the place’. It started out with some nice warm days where the temperature rose to a good 5°c and didn’t drop below freezing for three nights. That situation of course brought us some rain (finally). The first we’ve seen here since early November.
That lasted for about 24hrs and started the ‘melt’ (yes – another one). The beauty of having the rain combined with ‘melt water’ is that the little waterfall behind the house is now back in action. Yesterday the sound of rushing water under the road and into the channel at the side of the house was so relaxing. This does mean too that the snow in the garden began to melt. In fact every so often there is a whooshing sound, the a sort of sloshy crunch when another chunk of snow slides off the roof. So I have to be careful when the mutt goes into the garden – a chunk of that, though not large by our standards would probably polish the poor little mutt off….. He’s decided he doesn’t like the rain, and he’s not too keen now that the snow we still have isn’t still frozen. Despite his trying to walk on it ‘on tip toe’ he still sinks up to his neck, then rushes back to me for assurances that he’s safe. Then of course, as dogs do, he shakes himself all over me!

But the rain didn’t last long, and yesterday it started snowing again. That lasted for about 12 hours, but it was wet, slushy snow, so the snow ploughs kept the lanes clear quite easily. It’s not snowing now, but they have forecast another 24hrs of it – starting this afternoon.

Yesterday (Saturday) was a bit of a ‘Red Letter Day’ for #1 son… His dance club group (Club Class) held the first of their ‘own’ monthly Saturday night ‘residency’ with their own DJ’s at the world famous Ministry of Sound club in London. This for Serge and his business partner is the culmination of nine years of really hard work and ‘risk taking’. They have done so well – I’m really proud of him! A couple of the younger members of the family flew over from Milano for the ‘first night’ – they’re due back this afternoon – if they wake up in time for their flight – hahaha! Serge is taking his DJ Agency staff to Amsterdam for two days, as a thank you, to see Depeche Mode…. Lucky whatsits!
What with his bar grill/restaurant right on the river at Maidstone in Kent, and his DJ agency, plus some consultancy work on club music with BBC Radio One his feet hardly touch the ground anymore. And that means that I see less and less of him – but never mind – that’s what children are supposed to do – ‘fly the nest’ – isn’t it?