Weather turning for the good (for just a few days?)

 Hi there

above: Lyall Bay.  Eastern end.  If you're standing in middle of bay looking out to sea, this area is on your left. It was a calm-ish day today so no high waves.  I was sitting on a seat exactly between the surfers to the front of me and the airport runway behind me.

Here, in Wellington, we've had such an awful run of bad weather.  But as of yesterday, it's all changed.  We're a week away from Spring, I've swam, my daffodil flowers are out, I've promenaded and picnic-ed around Lyall Bay for two days now, everyone has a spring (spring?) in their steps, and some of us - the more adventurous ones - have dipped into their summer wardrobe.

I know the temperature high is only 15c today, but it has been all sun and no wind.  And I will repeat that:  there has been no wind.  You can't call us Windy Wellington today.  And what's more the weather forecast has said that the temperature actually feels like 16c - wow

Family myth has it that my mother saved a child in the sea at Lyall Bay, way back in the early 20th century.  It's said that she got her name entered onto a life-saving board hanging from the wall in the old surf club, which is now Maranui Cafe.  I never did get around to checking this story out.  And Maranui Cafe had a fire a few years' back.  The fire was some time after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Harry and Megan) visited Maranui Cafe.  See photos on earlier blog.