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Gillam Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 6BP

A fairly common arrangement in these sort of council housing areas, a single driveway leading to several neighbours' garages around the back of their gardens.

Looking out across Northbourne at 5:11 on the first evening after the clocks have gone back. The band of orange sky is cruelly ironic since there has been no hint of sunshine today.

After the first three days of October have seen temperatures well into the 20s and there hasn't been a cloud in the sky, these unusual conditions have come to an abrupt end in the last hour or so. It was still hot and sunny at 5 o'clock but an hour later the wind has got up, the sun has gone in and the temperature suddenly feels more normal for the time of year.

Looking across the junction of Gillam Road and Leybourne Avenue at dusk, as an aeroplane has made a U-turn and heads back northward. A few details have emerged from an internet search this evening, that it was a Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, modified and known as Sentinel, based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. Its southwestward course having begun above approximately Cirencester, and the loop above Bridgwater-Taunton-Dunster-Barry Island. The plane was at an altitude of 43,025 feet. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rl4zpbov9k6jhmp/glex.PNG

Two weeks after Bournemouth's heaviest snowfall for 17 years, and before much of it had had chance to thaw, a sort of encore was performed last night and we woke up to another white scene.

A storm arriving from Portugal, named Storm Emma by the Portuguese meteorologists, arrived as predicted over southern England on 1 March and brought with it Bournemouth's first significant snowfall for three years. We look across the junction of Leybourne Avenue (left-right) and Gillam Road (foreground) at 5:30pm - just dark enough for the lights to start coming on - after it has been snowing properly for a couple of hours; a light dusting preceded it midmorning.

The Fibrecity company are coming around all the streets in Bournemouth, laying the cables for what will be in the future ultra-fast broadband service. They cause nuisance on the roads but only in any one place for a very short time. Here we see their orange barriers cordoning the pavement of Gillam Road, which they did today. The scar in the tarmac once they have finished is ultra-thin - no more than a couple of inches wide - as can be seen in the foreground bit of pavement.

A view across the Gillam Road/Leybourne Avenue junction at 6:05am just as it is getting light. The street lights in the foreground turned themselves off as I was turning my camera on, followed by other little orange dots disappearing - there are a few still on in the distance towards the left-hand side of the picture. As you can perhaps guess from this picture, it would be a dull and overcast morning ahead of us.

Heavy rain has persisted for a couple of hours, but as we look out from my balcony the sun has made a brief appearance. It is still raining quite hard, though.

Looking out across the junction of Gillam Road onto Leybourne Avenue on a very misty morning - you would normally see the fields of the Stour valley for some distance beyond the bungalows to the right.