Hot and sticky weather causing aggro here

 I know some areas had rain and thunderstorms during the night (my sister did in the Midlands), but we certainly didn't here, it was another hot and sticky night.  When I got up just after 5 am (couldn't sleep as it was so humid) the house was so muggy and hot, I opened all the windows and the back door straight away - we do have a couple of small windows open during hot nights, but not the big ones, due to security issues living in a bungalow - although I'm sure Betty would alert us to anyone breaking in.  I let Betty out in the garden for a wee, it did feel much fresher out there.....it's got hotter again this afternoon.  We're promised cooler weather from tomorrow, I do hope so.

I've just noticed that one of the roses, a very tall one with gorgeous dark red flowers, is absolutely smothered in black spot, literally every leaf I think.  I confess I did notice a few leaves with it on a couple of weeks ago but didn't get round to cutting them off - and now look!  That'll teach me for not dealing with it promptly.  I know it's more prevalent in hot humid conditions (hello May!) and when the leaves are wet.  Husband waters the garden almost every day, he says he likes doing it, he uses the hosepipe....however, I've noticed when I'm at the kitchen sink washing up that he's very indiscriminate and casual with the hosepipe - he basically just liberally sprays the entire garden with the hose nozzle at waist height, he doesn't bend down to spot water anything at the roots.  And he won't be told - it's not worth the verbal aggro I get if I suggest he does anything different.  So now I think the best thing to do with that rose is to cut it right back to the ground and put all the pieces in the garden compost bag, along with all the fallen leaves - which will of course be taken to the tip, not put in our compost bins.  At the moment, the black spot doesn't appear to have spread to any of the other roses, but I expect it would only be a matter of time if I left that rose here.  A pity to have to cut it right down but I'm sure it'll grow again next year - I drastically cut back all the roses when we first moved here, as they were all wildly overgrown and neglected, and they all grew beautifully.

The builders next door have been quieter today, although neighbour and his brother (the labourers) have both been at work today, they arrived home at 3 o'clock and seem to have started working next door straight away.  It's a pity that the old barn is so close to us, it's only about 10 or 12 feet from our garden so we're able to hear pretty much every sound (unfortunately).  I expect we'll get used to it.  It's not only the builders themselves though, they're constantly having lorries with building supplies deliveries (the same builder is also simultaneously doing some more building work directly across the road, which has been ongoing for several weeks now).  Plus other lorries with a grabber thing on the back to pick up all the vast amounts of rubble that have been dug out both from across the road and the old barn next door, so it's Noise Central here and from 7.30-8.00 in the morning (7.00 am on one occasion, although complaints were made about that so they haven't repeated it).

It is getting on my nerves a bit right now, but I think that's down to the heat and lack of sleep bothering me.  Husband keeps bellowing at the dog too, again I think he's feeling the heat - as is Betty.