Last week was a showery one with a couple of cold nights thrown in.
We didn’t have any great amount of rain on any particular day but the showers tended to be spread out through the day. We fancied visiting Fountains Abbey to see it lit up by floodlights. Of course in these Covid times, that means booking in advance so it’s not a case of being able to wait for a good day and just go. At one point the weather forecast suggested that Monday would be the best day of the week and so we booked a visit. By the time it got to Monday the forecast for the day wasn’t as promising as when we booked. We headed off in any case hoping we’d miss any showers that were forecast. Our arrival time was 15:00 giving us plenty of time to wander around the lakes at Studley Royal before it got dark.
As dusk fell the floodlighting of the Abbey began to take effect. Extra evening catering facilities had been arranged and we enjoyed a teatime coffee and cake as we waited for darkness to fall.
Both the inside and outside of the Abbey was lit by floodlights.
As we made our way back to the car park it was beginning to rain so we’d been rather lucky with the timing of our visit.
We did manage a couple of trips to the allotment. Fortunately, we don’t have to book them in advance. We managed some more tidying up, removing the remains of our runner beans and outdoor tomato plants to the compost heap.
It’s all starting to look a little bit bare now as more and more beds are cleared of their summer crops.
It was a case of hoping any showers would miss the allotment. The threat of a heavy downpour was never very far away.
