July in Scotland: rain, sunshine, rainbows, rain, cold

Just in time for the start of the school holidays, the weather turned rather wet and grey. Fantastic timing!
Mind you, everything here was so dry it's actually wonderful to have had some rain and not to need to water gardens every night.

But temperatures could have stayed where they were -- around a pleasant 20°C – rather than plummet to about 10°C or even lower! Imagine putting the heating on in early July! Well, that's what I did this afternoon / evening to stop shivering in my winter togs. Rather depressing, actually.

Now I feel better for having had a late-afternoon nap (not good if you want to sleep soundly later on, but hey, my brain was clamouring for sleep), and for having hunkered down to complete a hugely entertaining translation about an arcane piece of Swiss history.

Onwards and upwards: next a few snippets about crazy dudes risking their lives doing extreme sports, and then a big slog -- about 80 pages on overweight children and adolescents, and what's being done about and for them in Switzerland. I hope to get well stuck in before I take myself off on a road trip for a few days in mid-July.

Everything else will have to wait, so no pix just now.