Floody Hell

Summertime...........I know it's bad! Luckily we feel high and dry here at Highway Farm.  Silly monsoon season, when is it going to end.

Fotos of Floody Hell in Bridport.................. http://www.bridportradio.co.uk/bridport-news/3540-floody-hell

 12/7/12

Well done to all my guests, none have cancelled but have continued to dodge showers out and about and be cheerful at breakfast times!  Sympathies to the Canadian ladies who walked to Lyme Regis on their first day in decent weather just an odd shower and arrived to enjoy the beauties of a sunny evening in Lyme.  However they weren't so luck on their second day and its a long, long walk to Abbotsbury in the rain...........haven't heard, hope they made it?

It was the same day as Torch Relay which started at Stonehenge in a brilliance of early morning sun and then jogged through to Salisbury in the dry but by the time the Torch arrived in Dorchester it was raining.  In Bridport it was bucketing down, but we were all there lining the streets and cheering. 

A waving sea of colourful umbrellas.  I laughed at John as he put on waterprrof trousers and wellington but he was quite right it poured the whole afternoon, and I got wet jeans and damp feet!

Well done Bridport, a great turn out.
I put the heating on, as the guests were dam too. I've never put the heating on in July before?

15/7/12

New guests arrived yesterday travelling from London by train and bus to our doorstep. Usually its easy, train from Waterloo to Dorchester and then bus to Bridport and Highway Farm.  This time the A35 was still closed and they were told to go on the bus to Weymouth and then it would take them along the coastal road to Bridport.  However on arriving in Weymouth they we sent back to Dorchester as the A35 had just opened up...............rather a long-winded way, there and back to Weymouth.........just trying out the new road link? or lack or communciation? 

Now its raining again.  Can't be as bad as last Saturday.  2 local weddings, one friend's daughter had to travel by tractor to the church and she looked very fetching in trainers and a mac!  The other wedding had no photographer or organist, the vicor was late and some guests couldn't make it, and it rained and rained and rained.  I had a group of guests staying who went off dressed in coloured summer dresses.......came back for tea after the late chruch service before they braved the marquee on the lawns in Symondsbury.

Hopefully a special day for the bridal couples.  Memorable, no-one will ever forget the day!

PS;  A35 still closed in one direction towards Dorchester.

More for Maisie.................xx