You could call it summer...

...we would call it "mid year season".  Global Warming, obviously,  cuases havoc all over the world and here in England we seem to be consumed by talk of the weather and temperature more than most but if you consider that an average day in North Yorkshire has consisted of three times more rainfall than usual, temperatures 10 degrees below normal and hours of sunshine averaging 9 as opposed to the usual 20 hours per day at this time of year, you will understand why.

A typical Yorkshire day since April goes like this:
Early morning (7am) beautiful sunshine, temp 17.
Lunch time (1pm) torrential rain, temp 9.
Mid-afternoon (3pm) sunshine with wind gusts of 40mph, temp 14.
Evening (6pm) sunshine, no wind, temp 22.
Night (9pm) cloud, temp 10, humidity 99%.


In spite of the gloomy and yet sometimes hot and then freezing cold again weather the wonderful Raspberries (notice capital R) are growing magnificently in this humid warm and humid cold we've experienced recently! ;-)

The great raspberry walk

I didn't mention the gooseberries or the red currants, they let themselves (and us) down badly, never have we had such appalling harvest of 6 gooseberries and a few red currants.  We did well for black currants though and along with some grandparents field and hedge picked gooseberries we had enough for a crumble to feed 8!

Mid season shot of the herbs, rhubarb and Jerusalem artichoke.