The forecast today was 'a respite from the rain before the next wet spell arrives'. So where to go and what to do on my penultimate day of leave this week? The top option was to go to Bossington near Minehead, ahead of that I checked the three webcams I look at now. Lyme Regis above, Porlock Weir below and Boscastle Harbour below that. Something said to me record each view at around 8.30am. Which I did. As you can see there's not much happening at either place.
Bossington it was then. Somehow we managed to avoid all the rain showers that we could see trundling over Exmoor, just the odd spot on the wind reaching us. There's a lovely cafe in Bossington which did soup with cheese on toast, and unusual combination but delicious. Thereafter a walk up to the coastguard hut on Hurlstone Point, with a return to Bossington via the beach which is where we sat for a while, with four ravens overhead to keep us company.
As we sat we watched the rain barrelling in over from Foreland Head so we decided to head back to the cafe (avoiding the school party on a field trip) where the rain only lasted for a moment, and we were under cover with a hot chocolate and pot of tea. That was the last rain of the day. On the way home we drove to Bossington Hill as we're booked to do a dark skies event there in November. I'd never been up there before but there are stunning views.
All in all a very good day dodging the rain which has battered many areas between the M4 corridor and Nottinghamshire. Some areas of Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire have had three times the September rainfall amounts in a few days.
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