Post of many colours

Forgot to put two more happy things in earlier. 4) is West Country ice cream. You saddos who live elsewhere have no idea what you're missing. I'd only been down here nine or ten years but I'd forgotten it wasn't the same everywhere until I went to visit my son in Sheffield a while back. We were in the city and it was mad hot and I wanted an ice cream and we kept going from shop to shop with me saying 'Where do you get real ones?' and neither Bob nor the shopkeepers having any idea what I meant! Then he came to visit me and found out. West country ice cream comes in pastel shades as it is made of cream and real fruit or toffee or whatever and it tastes divine!

And 5) is coloured clouds. Once in a while even when it's not sunset or the Red Arrows have recently flown past you get coloured clouds. I don't know why but you do! I could look it up in the Cloud Spotter's Guide because I know they were mentioned in there (to my great relief...so many people have looked at me askance when trying to decribe the phenomena). The little rainbow ones are the best, I've seen a couple of those in my time (with collaborative witnesses thank goodness!)but today there was a patch or pinky peach fading to greeny blue in the increasingly white washed sky. I tried to take a photo of it with my smart phone and even set it up on a wall to reduce camera shake but of course it didn't really show and as I got my finger in front of the lens and that did show I'm not going to put the picture on here. You'll just have to take my word for it. Coloured clouds are great!

There may be more happinesses to come yet today. There should be but I'm not going to tempt fate by telling you what I anticipate. I'm just going to have a shower with my fingers crossed and put on something fairly tidy but that I don't mind if I spill orange things on!