Lots of heavy showers today, interspersed with a few sunny spells. There are lots of berries on the trees which is supposed to foretell a cold winter but is probably more to do with the summer weather. I taught all day today. It poured down straight after play this afternoon, soaking the parents who were beginning to come in to collect the kids. The little boy who was in my class last year who has leukemia is home from hospital and came to school to collect his little brother. He is very bloated from the steroids but seems cheerful in himself. I just pray that he will make a full recovery. The sun shone brightly on the way home tonight but by the time I got to the top of the drive the clouds were returning and just a patch of the landscape was illuminated as if by a spotlight.