Feelgood factor

Today we've been out delivering the village magazines to the volunteer distributors who pop each copy through letterboxes all over the village. (Not our normal job, we were standing in for the distro manager who was on hols.) It's a great system and means almost every house in the village gets a free copy every month - a real team effort. The sun was beating down on us again - nice after the clouds and rain of yesterday - and everyone we met had a big smile on their face. It seems the feelgood factor from winning in the Jubilee People's Millions vote last week is still high, and the win seems to have put a bit of bounce in the step of everyone we met!

80 degrees in the shade

Burton isn't used to having temperatures of 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, I'm sure, but it's put a huge smile on everyone's face after the cold damp weeks of early June. I wonder how long the sunshine will last? There's been some cracking sunsets over the past few evenings as well and the light has been catching tree trunk sides and under-lighting the higher branches with a lovely golden glow.