A lazy Sunday in Exeter
May. 29th, 2016 08:18 pmGentle day with an early lunch at BTP and a wander around town. Seeing the huge crowd waiting for the shuttle buses to Radio 1's Big Weekend at Powderham — by 11am they'd extended all the way down Paris Street — made me rather glad I wasn't leaving town.
After a long, lazy lunch we went for a ramble down by the river, foraging for the elderflowers which have just started coming into season. Collecing a bumper crop, we brewed up a batch of cordial before retiring to the roof terrace for the rest of the afternoon.

The weather was beautiful: mid-twenties with fairly high humidity but enough wind to keep it bearable. Despite slathering myself in sunscreen — a rather good children's sort that shows up green until you've rubbed it in — I'm worried that I may have caught the sun in places, even though I hope it might just be wind burn, I rather suspect it's not...
After a long, lazy lunch we went for a ramble down by the river, foraging for the elderflowers which have just started coming into season. Collecing a bumper crop, we brewed up a batch of cordial before retiring to the roof terrace for the rest of the afternoon.

The weather was beautiful: mid-twenties with fairly high humidity but enough wind to keep it bearable. Despite slathering myself in sunscreen — a rather good children's sort that shows up green until you've rubbed it in — I'm worried that I may have caught the sun in places, even though I hope it might just be wind burn, I rather suspect it's not...