Powys Camera Club – Saturday, July 31

With the thermometer touching 30 degrees in some places it became rather uncomfortable by the end.

A butterfly takes a rest. Picture by Laura Shepherd.

A blue tit in Llanerfyl. Picture by Toni Mannell.

Such is life on a temperate island.

On one hand we are so fortunate not to endure more extreme weather seen around the world each year.

However, on the other, our bodies are generally so ill-equipped to deal with such extremes when demanded.

Of course it is not just people who struggle with extremes.

Throughout the animal world many creatures will have struggled to cope in the heatwave.

Ynyslas beach. Picture by Stephen Mills.

Afon Elan. Picture by Darren Bowen.

Of course we are fortunate that extremes in weather in this country are usually brief.

A week of hot weather will inevitably be followed by a few weeks of rain when the atmosphere is cleared and the heaviness weighing on people is thankfully removed.

Cows cool off in a stream. Picture by Ivy Evans.

Deer in the mist in Welshpool. Picture by Gary Williams.

Then we will all be donning our rain coats and complaining about how brief the summer was and cursing the rain.

Such is the British fascination with the weather.

Meanwhile the children are enjoying their summer holidays.

It has been a strange year and a half four children but hopefully they can enjoy this summer more than the last.

Summer is about freedom, whether it be the freedom to go to the coast, the freedom to have a barbecue or three freedom to run around under the sun.