Royal words resound with harmony

AS OUTDOOR folk and country motorists will have noticed, the density of wild flowers this summer is exceptional.

The weather, in general, has been good and the sea warm. We’ve had week after week of temperatures averaging 20 degrees, an ideal climate, as visitors from Spain and central London remind me.

On almost every day, there are some hours of bright sunshine, often followed by hazy evenings with my local bay sunset-red and the boats hanging between earth and heaven.