Thursday 10 July

Brilliantly sunny day again in Stornoway, where we managed a summery 18C / 64F this afternoon. Was invited out for lunch by the same person whom I guided round the island on Tuesday, before they went off on the plane in the evening. Person concerned seems to have caught the Hebridean bug - hope they still feel like that after 6 days of force 8, hail, rain, hail and gloom. That's the flipside of the Hebrides. A change in our weather is due tomorrow evening.

The smoke from the wildfire was plainly visible from Stornoway, just south of the Creed
River mouth.