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Saturday 26 August, 2006 Spring is coming earlier, autumn is coming later - at least, it is in Europe, according media reports yesterday. There’s good science to demonstrate this beyond a peradventure. So why am I looking out at a cloudy sky on a cool, grey day, with rain? In August!

Monday 21 August, 2006 We’ve been waiting for the roofers to come and fix a leak since Saturday. It was too wet on Saturday, and they’ve just called to say it will be too wet this morning. The weather!

Saturday 19 August, 2006 It’s so autumn - and it’s only August! Cool, showery… Can I possibly be thinking nostalgically of the impossible heat of July?

Friday 18 August, 2006 When our daughter was born, Erica and I both wanted her to have a Welsh name (Erica is Welsh, and my Scottish roots had been reflected in the boy’s names). After discussing various names, we agreed on “Angharad“, a name that comes from the ancient Welsh tales of the Mabinogion. It means “more love” and is related to the Welsh word “cariad” meaning “one who is loved”. She nicknamed herself “Hari”, since most English people mangle the word “Angharad” when they try to say it.

Monday 14 August, 2006 This piece by Stephen Morris in The Australian provides some essential clarity on the use of the term “Islamic fascism” and the history of the phenomenon the term is used to label. Well worth reading, in light of what’s happening in the world right now - a desperately sad corruption of one of the great divinely revealed religions.

Saturday 12 August, 2006 You can find the text of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 here. It’s worth reading closely and pondering.

Thursday 10 August, 2006 The weather has gone really cool on us. Sunshine and showers, a north westerly wind, and temperatures around 22?C. What a contrast to the low to mid-thirties we were having last month.

Monday 7 August, 2006 Dr Denis MacEoin has written a very interesting and rather frightening response in the Jerusalem Post to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the current crisis.

Sunday 6 August, 2006 The heat is back. We’re taking Ethan and Emily to Wendi and Moojan Momen’s Ted Cardell Memorial Picnic today. No doubt we’ll overheat - as we did yesterday.

Thursday 3 August, 2006 Another cool day. More like autumn than summer at around 18C.