Angel15

Morning. London, Charing Cross area currently 21°C Wind: 7 mph Humidity: 77.3% Sun is just peeking through now and blue skies are above.

32°C Wind: 11 mph Humidity: 27.5% in London

Excellent - I hate to see birds injured - had one casualty this year - a fledgling - one of my cats brought her in and she was cheeping loudly (and I mean at full volume) in the hall at about 2am in the morning - so I got up and picked her up (she was unharmed) and rang our local bird lady the next day who works for RSPCA and she told me to feed her with cat food until we could get the bird to her - which we did. She was amazing!! Every two hours we would feed her a wee bit of food and she would flutter her wings and really bawl for it! If I didn't have cats, I would have an avery in the garden and take in sick or injured birds myself. Anywa, glad it works

I must have very weird cats then - all my lot go in one spot in my garden (pooh corner I call it) or in the one tray that is in the house at night, but like I said, I can sympathise with people having problems with it as one of mine started to use my new bit of lawn that had just been laid as a toilet - so that is when I bought the Cat Off product - which worked. She went back to pooh corner. Not sure netting will prevent it - might even be a hazard for birds or squirrels getting caught up in it to be honest. But see how it goes - if it works, you could patent it! hmmm, well let's hope you remember it is out there as well Mondy and don't happen to walk on it eh?

Well said Red. Most of my cats are rescue cats - my own four cats I had from kittens - Tia Maria is my pedigree Birman (seal point) and she is such a soppy girl, Bunty I bought from a petshop (I knew the owner well and he was a good man) ...I just asked if I could hold her for a while whilst hubby was buying the cat lit, and that was it - a match made in heaven (Bunty, not the hubby!) - she is a Heinz 57 but looks quite like a Norwegian Forest cat and I love her to bits - she follows me everywhere and she actually sleeps on top of me at night!! (I have pics of her on the gallery under Angel's photos), Misty was a white kitten I bought and she is now a lovely 11 year old girl, and Hunneybunney (properly known as Kleo Adouzbo) is a cream Burmese (very temperamental!). But all the cats I have are good boys and girls and to be honest, you would hardly know they were there at times - they go out into the garden through the catflap - or lounge in the conservatory. I don't have any kittens and my cats are mainly aged 4 to 12 (Toby being the youngest at 4!) x

And of course the bird population would be down to nil as well as next door's little pooch! I just use Cat Off from Homebase - I have 19 cats and they go in my garden in one part at the bottom but sometimes use the lawn in one particular place, so I always use cat off there and it seems to work! It smells of garlic and white pepper to be honest - but it seriously does the trick. (they hate curry powder too!) - just think what an aromatic garden you will have - flowers, curry, garlic, pepper!! Give it a go hun and I am sure it will work - you have to reapply if it rains though (so you should be alright for the next month or so!!)

You are kidding!!! London at the mo is blue skies and plenty of warm sunshine 22°C Wind: 7 mph Humidity: 64.4%

My lawned area in the garden has actually cracked in many places due to the dryness of it all - looks akin to desert cracking!

Amazing photos!!! My favs (difficult to choose though) are: Shuggee 1 Louby 3 Louby 1 Nick F 2 Bobby Dazzler 1 I love Loub's bubble picture - really imaginative and unique !!! Had to edit this as the bubble pic was just too good not to include!! "women's perogative to change her mind" .. and no there is nothing wrong with the one I have already!!!!

I think it should be left as it is now - with respect, I think it is a lot of hoo har.

Tuggy for me although it was very close with Wibs as well - I like them both, but Tuggy has such colour in the photo - it is stunning, there again Wibs is very mood set .. I like them both, but have voted Tuggy

I think that is a good criteria - and a sensible one

Do you think it possible, Mr Data, that there is micro-organism type life forms on any other planet?

Some great photos there, but for me it is: Wibs 2 Cloudburst 2 Tuggy 1 Tuggy 2 Plushi 1

I don't water my lawn either - it stays green and when it is a particularly hot patch - or predicted to be - I make sure I don't mow it - that way it stays green, after all, you don't see people watering park grass do you Also it is a lovely part of the garden and green is restful on the eyes and is known to be a colour you can relax with just by looking at it Remember ... Sun is warm .. grass is green!!!! How soothed do you all feel now?!!

believe me I know - watre pistols are fine though - my cats use my garden and not the neighbours!!! They have a specific place down the bottom which I call Pooh Corner!!! :lol: And I am a keen gardener - love my flowers and I do know how cats can be a pain at times - I use Cat-Off which is like a pepper substance and it seems to work, only on the parts I don't want them to go on (if you get my drift)

Not funny - in fact, is classed as cruelty; please can you not post stuff like that as it does encourage people to do stupid things along those lines and I am a member of RSPCA. Thanks

I did plum tomatoes last year in the conservatory and I put them in GrowBags - got loads of tommies from the plants and they kept going right up until September!! I fed them with the tomarite stuff you can get and they seemed fine - also they did not suffer from pests (greenfly etc). My nextdoor neighbout has particular success growing tommies and he told me not to water them too much - that way you get bigger tomatoes - well it worked - however I did give them a good drink every other day in the evening when the sun was low. Anyway - good luck with them! :lol:

Here you go .. The warm waters of the Gulf Stream lose a lot of moisture through evaporation, making the sea particularly salty. In the North Atlantic, the heavy salt water becomes cold enough to sink, forming a deep ocean current called the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The NADW acts as a pulling mechanism on the Gulf Stream, maintaining the direction and intensity of the ocean current, and keeping the climate of the UK and Northwest Europe mild. Scientists have shown that thousands of years ago the NADW shut down in response to subtle shifts in global climate. This slowed and diverted the course of the Gulf Stream to such as extent that the regional climate of the Northeast Atlantic became considerably cooler. It is now suspected that global warming may trigger a shutdown in the NADW, and a slowing or diversion of the Gulf Stream, which would ironically lead to colder climates throughout the UK and Northwest Europe.

True .. I found this article which states that It is now suspected that global warming may trigger a shutdown in the NADW, and a slowing or diversion of the Gulf Stream, which would ironically lead to colder climates throughout the UK and Northwest Europe. So it could be a possibility, but is not happening yet. http://www.enviropedia.org.uk/Climate/Gulf_Stream.php ..However, contrary to what I stated above, I have now found this, which says emphatically that the Gulf stream is slowing .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,....html?gusrc=rss

I think there may be a problem with them this year as even the bees are out early and they are huge - I have seen a few wasps and they seem larger than the average wasp! I will have to get that insect netting stuff to put up at the windows.

My advice is MOVE if you are in that position and if the person next to you complain, just tread on his a*rse and make sure you have pointy heels on - I was in a carriage one year when a great fat bumble bee started buzzing over my head (back seat in the corner of the train) .. I just said "Scuse me.. NOW!" to the person next to me and got out of there - But is it a damn nightmare.

Excellent photos and so hard to choose from! But here is my final selection Wolves78.2 Louby1 Sin 3 Tuggy2 Neilb 1 I also like Cloudburst 3!!!!!

just for info - the temp reading in my conservatory (south facing) is 42C!!!! Ouch.

Thx ACB - will do !