Independence Day

Happy Fourth of July. No doubt they're busy celebrating on the other side of the Atlantic. Independence Day is a great excuse to party, but from a British viewpoint, let's just hope that the Scots don't vote to party off and cut adrift from the rest of us later this year. The United Kingdom is surely stronger if it stays united.

It was a beautiful soft, pretty pink dawn here in Kent this morning, and our little corner of the Garden of England looked beautiful at first light. Yesterday was frenetic, hopefully today will be calmer. Until our son's boisterous and bouncy Welsh Mountain Dog arrives tonight for a 24-hour stay, that is ...