It's been wet and windy over the past 48 hours, more like October than July.  So I still have not got the invertebrate check done.  It's a job that's a real delight when you can spend considerable time really studying the content of the tray after each kick, but it's far less to my fancy when the rain is running down the back of your neck and the wind is trying to firstly tip you into a rising river then empty the sample tray before you have chance to count the critters it contains.  Added to which I need reading glasses to do a thorough identification and it's a real sod trying to see through rain smattered glasses.

A drier day is forecast for tomorrow so a morning spent doing the check should be in order.

I hear that the Tarn was hard work this afternoon and the fish were reluctant to play.  I'm not surprised.  When we get a cold wind like that we had this afternoon it seems to put the fish down and they seem reluctant to rise for a couple of hours after the wind drops off.  It's fairly calm now, but still quite cold and there is a lot of high grey cloud masking the fells.

Whatever happened to the long hot summer we were promised.  So much for global warming!

Ian