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  1. Iceni
    A strike about 8 miles south of me. I'm hoping for that cell over Braintree. Come on!
  2. Iceni
    Yippee - couple of big strikes have made it just nw of Braintree. Keep going north and we'll be in business. Nothing like Kent, but beggars can't be choosers. And another much further nw about 20 miles south of Cambridge.... Please please please. Although God knows why — my dog will have a nervous breakdown.
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    The graphic looks like when you're making your own popcorn - lightning going off every other second. This is going to be a goodie. Come to Mummy!
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    This is pretty good. http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en OMG they're really picking up speed and intensity. Hastings is about to get a pasting.
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    Those storms which were setting Le Mans to Normandy alight are now mid Channel heading due north. Perhaps I better get some kip now as in a few hours they're going to wake me up. We're going to have some fun around 5–6 am.
  6. Iceni
    My Black Labrador lightning/t-storm detector has gone onto red alert. Trying to climb into the corner behind our router and the light came crashing down. I've already shut the bathroom door as his other party trick is climbing into the bath. Some wonderfully refreshing updraft of a breeze has sprung up… looking hopeful.
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    Ooops we're about to leave sunny Suffolk for Hyde Park to see Neil Young. Going to pack my rain poncho. Could anyone advise when/if the t/storms are going to Hyde Park hit time-wise? I'll stay away from the trees
  8. Iceni
    That's a funny term for Mick Jagger, or was it another band like Led Zeppelin? They're definitely heavier than the Stones... Just bored out of my mind, nothing on TV, nothing worth doing today and I can't even pig out as it's a fast day on my 2:5 diet — might take up smoking again.
  9. Iceni
    Positively autumnal here rain and breezy. Noticed the hawthorns are loaded with berries which are turning red, in fact it feels more like late August than early July. Suppose last week's 3 or 4 days of fine weather was 'summer' for another year.
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    Last few days have been exactly the same. Starts off in glorious sunshine after a clear night, by 11 am the clouds roll in and about noon we get a thunderstorm or heavy rain. Dull all afternoon before the skies clearing around 6 o'clock. Poor dog (who hates thunderstorms) has been terrified — won't go out, so we have to give him his walk in the morning. I'm a bit irritated because I got this lovely Lutyens bench delivered on Friday. Haven't been able to assemble it as if it gets wet the dowels will swell and it will be difficult.
  11. Iceni
    So much nicer that those hideous orange ones which infest our roads - if I look south, I can see this horrible orange glow from Haverhill - miles away. Do they have shades to stop light pollution?
  12. Iceni
    Just thought I'd post these pictures of the poplars which line the lane — their leaves are this beautiful copper colour when they come out — yet the farmer keeps threatening to cut them all down — over my dead body… we even like the whispering noise they make in the wind and would miss it as it's 'home' to us now. I took the photos coming back from the most lovely walk yesterday when it was as perfect as it gets… blue sky, and blossom everywhere. But not quite T-shirt weather yet — a very chilly breeze. But the best was going to the racing stud just up the lane. It's owner is a very famous jockey of the 1970s and he let me see his (and his clients') newborn foals… three little fillies with another three mares just about to foal in the neighbouring stalls. What was so sweet was their mums who were obviously as pleased as Punch with their new babies. But very sadly, they lost a mare and her foal a couple of weeks ago, 5 weeks before her delivery date — she started haemorrhaging and they couldn't stop it... But the foals are adorable, just 2 or 3 days old and rock steady on their feet — they'll be let out onto the new spring grass in a few days' time, but come in at night again. One was the daughter of Dubawi which is the best horse in Newmarket. Anyway I've got 3 future Derby winners names to remember, and no, I'm not telling you their names. http:////d321955.r.worldssl.net/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.png
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    The Freedom Fence man is coming to do a demonstration on my dogs tomorrow afternoon... as my Labrador is petrified of thunder, it's going to be 'interesting' when he gets a slight static shock from the fence and then a thunderclap. He probably won't ever leave the house again.
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    And no sooner have I given up smoking and taken up vaping the evil EU is going to ban it! My theory: They want us dead, or so miserable we top ourselves so they don't have to pay state pensions.
  15. Iceni
    Well woke up early because I was COLD and sure enough there's a ground frost this morning.,.
  16. Iceni
    Wow! Sleet here as of 5 minutes ago… it's our elevation and I thought the clouds to the North looked sleety or snowy as opposed to rainy… Poor husband picked the wrong time for the dog walk - he's still out there.
  17. Iceni
    At least you didn't fall into a drainage ditch. My husband was backing up with the radio controls to get a view of his model aeroplane in flight and fell in backwards.
  18. Iceni
    That really hot summer was 1976. We BBQ'd our evening meal after work every night for months.
  19. Iceni
    All our love and best wishes to you and your Dad. Some people are just so awesomely brave, keep positive for his sake... he doesn't need to laugh, just to know you're there is enough. And we'll be here thinking of you and your family.
  20. Iceni
    Yes it's back to coats and jumpers here. Very typical March day in fact, this March has come in like a lamb and might go out like a lion. At least all the baby wildlife had a nice start. I hate to think of them shivering in the cold and wet.
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    They are fantastic photos... the first one of the portrait sunset one looks like a painting which my husband's uncle did - he was a Royal Academy artist. Aren't digital cameras great? So sorry about your cats legrandfromage — we had to put down our little Bella who was only 10 months old a few months ago (she had a massive infection which couldn't be treated). Only consolation was we'd homed her last January, but she didn't get on with a dog and it wasn't a nice house with no garden, so we took her back again... at least she had a lovely summer last year playing in the garden with lots of sunbathing
  22. Iceni
    Well it IS spring... all that birds and bees stuff going on outside. Only natural after a nice w/e.
  23. Iceni
    I really don't mind if it's totally different from today and snows. It's what keeps weather interesting. I get bored with week after week of the same thing - even in summer if we get a month-long heatwave - I find myself wishing it would rain (a little). Same in that winter when the snow lay around for 6-7 weeks - I got bored with white fields. What's been tough about this winter is the constant rain.
  24. Iceni
    Well its been really nice here... the cats are ecstatic and so am I as it's the first day for months I haven't had to change their cat litter trays (maybe too much information, but by the end of winter it's the sort of daily chore that just does your head in)... They're doing their 'businesses' outside again!!!! YAY Hasn't been exactly peaceful though as our lane has been on the route of a cycle race and every time one of them goes past, the dogs woof woof - that must be all they hear - a succession of houses with a dog in it barking. I've got my lovely white Bob Dylan T-shirt on and some nice Rosa Mosa sandals I picked up in a sale a few months ago and haven't been able to wear... yes I know - very superficial, but today I feel like doing SA and just enjoying myself, I'll start the gardening tomorrow.
  25. Iceni
    Which river? the South East and East Anglia's a big place.
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