Grey Dreary Doldrums

 Any idea what this is?  Well it is an eel catcher! Eels bring to mind stories told by my mother of my great grandfather. Eels once a very popular food and the mainstay of the London Pie and Mash shops.

Lots of action here in the UK - politics, economy, immigration and we are being regularly patrolled by the Coast Guard and military flying overhead along the coast and what feels like very close over our building!  And yes we have entered the damp, cold grey season after a prolonged 'Indian Summer' (originally an American term, but first used in by The Met Office Meteorological Glossary in 1916).

Doldrums defined as (1) a state or period of stagnation or depression - which adaptly defines state of my home rennovations or (2) an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds - OK I am not at the equator, but otherwise defines our current weather.

Grey but with short-lived rainbow