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  1. Iceni
    How much sun does that part of the garden get? You ought to consider giving it a bit more light by cutting back that bamboo - it will soon grow up again - don't want to be nosey but if I was trying to re-establish a lawn and dry it out, that is what I'd do... get as much sun and wind onto it as possible.
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    March sounds like heaven. Don't like cold frost or snow in April. No orchard fruit as that's when the blossom comes out and it will kill the bees (again - 2012 was the worst year for bee keepers in a 100 years, there literally weren't any and everyone had to restock from abroad).
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    It was obviously a misguided bus. They put one in Cambridge-Ely. Where it goes along the road, they closed (another) lane and put up hideous solid concrete wall. Not a very nice first impression of the town for visitors.
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    We walked down to the little brook which runs through the woods and along the track. My black Lab will usually jump in any water as he loves it, but took one look at the torrent the stream's turned into and said (doggy language) "Not today, that's too fast." He's so clever.
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    Fab day here.... really feels like Spring - famous last words.... In fact I'm going to celebrate with a Nutri Bullet - one of these and they're brilliant. It's got me down nearly two sizes since I bought it last year. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nutribullet-Nutri-Bullet/dp/B00AN040LM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392816649&sr=8-1&keywords=nutribullet
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    I think you're asking the wrong question. Read any classic novel and they're full of weather extremes... but now our lifestyles and numbers and our ability to communicate more easily mean that everyone hears about what happened in what used to be a remote little Surrey village... and of course those little Surrey villages have grown to 10 times the size they used to be. In the old days, people didn't build their houses near that water meadow because it flooded every autumn, now they just put a drain or culvert in and hope the water goes somewhere else. And they build a new estate. We also travel miles to work, so if there's a flooding problem, it's bound to affect more people than when most people just went to the local market once a week because they could work and shop locally. Where I live there's a lane which goes to the A143 called Watery Lane. Guess what - it's like a shallow brook whenever we get an inch of rain over a few days, and there's a ford running across it. There are some very old 15th & 16th C houses along it, but they're built on a bank either side of it about 5' above the level of the lane. The one modern bungalow at one end has had to build up a sort of permanent flood barrier fence - looks hideous. Even when my parents moved to Haslemere, Surrey in the late 1950s everyone at Dad's office thought it was far too far away from his London job. Everyone else lived a few miles away in Wimbledon or in some London suburb. But he pointed out that as an export sales manager he didn't need to commute in and out every day. He spent 3/4s of the year miles away in S America or somewhere on a sales trip. Whereas my mum just stayed at home and ran the house and looked after the family, so they dropped their objections. Nowadays, Haslemere is well within the commuter belt and no one thinks an hour's commute is excessive. I don't think it's the weather, it's our perception of the weather and our increased reliability on it remaining unremarkable with no extremes. We are being unrealistic. Also with the email and the internet it's not necessary nowadays - so what if someone can't make it into the office for a couple of days, work from home. The village school used to be within walking distance, the kids got wet but so what? The butchers, bakers, greengrocers ditto, now they're gone and the supermarket is miles away or 10 miles away in my case. We are simply not adapting to our environment and not resilient either in infrastructure or lifestyles to cope with it, which is not good. What would happen if we got another Winter '62/63 or another October '87 (I didn't miss a single day's school in '63)? People would go into meltdown - there'd be rioting on the streets, but I remember both and people just made the best of things and coped.
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    If you leave any foot prints, cut a bit of turf from somewhere else and plonk it in the hole and tread it in.... but it's obviously not dry enough for anything yet. You will need to let it dry out for a couple of months or with the right weather 6 weeks. Best answer is to leave it be and let it dry. Put a Keep off the Swamp sign up. My husband dug a 3 ft trench from the garage to the house to put the electricity cable in (in March 10 years ago) - I was heartbroken about it but 2 months later, you couldn't see a thing. If you need somewhere to chill, why not do a little gravelled area and put your loungers there - I don't like sunbathing on the lawn as there are too many creepy crawlies about and also it's a pain having to move all the garden furniture every time you mow.
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    I'm not pleased with your news, so my 'Like' is a sympathy vote, not I'm glad your garden is slowly flooding. We should be given Bad News/Good News buttons Re: The lawn. Rake it over as soon as it's dry enough and get a pack of grass seed. Early spring to late spring is the ideal time, or early autumn (September) to sow. You'll have some seriously good turf as if the grass roots have been underwater for too long the grass may have died, but it all rots down and feeds whatever you sow. It won't need levelling or firming down which is the hard part of sowing a lawn. Promise by end of July, beginning of August you'll have a decent looking lawn again. I was amazed how quickly our seeded lawns matured - literally a few months. Much cheaper than re turfing.
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    They've not had a Polar Vortex story yet. Why, I don't know... perhaps it's because there shouldn't be one after all their global warming guff. I mean the North Pole is supposed to be like a chillier Caribbean by now isn't it?
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    Can I be the first to say I'm bored with sink holes? I really am.
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    Perhaps we lesser mortals have been put off posting on it. My little Johnny Winter joke yesterday for example. A photo and a one liner - which I hoped would lighten the mood gone after 10 minutes. We can read Tamara and John Pike on our regional thread. And while that PV is where it is, nothing much will change whatever the models say.
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    Apparently it only took about 10 years to switch. This documentary 'Little Ice Age - Big Chill' was really interesting - it explained why growing potatoes became so vital and wide-spread in Europe and why the USians drink beer as opposed to wine. I was wrong it started in the 14th C. Was going to post the link, but unfortunately YouTube has had to dump it due to copyright infringement. Why don't we see stuff like this on our TV? Edit: Aha found a different one... enjoy http://www.veoh.com/watch/v158890018kQaxQaK
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    And in 1483 Henry Tudor was forced to abandon his invasion to take Richard III's crown. His army landed in Pembroke and got as far as the Welsh Marches, but was stopped in his tracks by flooding in the Severn/Gloucester area. Nothing new. Btw - the late 15thC was around about the time of the start of the Little Ice Age which lasted another 300 years. Hope this isn't another one.
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    I wish we had a 'Good news/Bad news button' as well as a Like/Unlike one.
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    Thank you once again John! I clicked, I saw, I commented! Where would we be without you?
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    Don't laugh, but a 5' shark (a real live one) was seen in the River Stour in Essex last summer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10282891/Five-foot-shark-swims-up-river-in-Essex-countryside.html What has happened to the comment panel? It's pale grey Courier and I can hardly see what I'm typing. Annoying.
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    Sunny this morning and most of afternoon, but now clouded over and they look like rain clouds. Comme d'abitude.
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    Got this site bookmarked…http://www.spaceweather.com/It's excellent.
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    Is that some kind of sick joke... if not read this:http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/forget-agw-somerset-was-flooded-by-e-a-incompetence/
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    Yes I was working just up the road from where the hoarding hit him. There were no trains home when I got this phone call from a friend to say she'd brought her car in that day did I want a lift home.so we set off out of London down the A3. The winds were so powerful that they'd warped, battered or even blown off the massive metal exit signs Thankfully the A3 was almost deserted but we his some minor flooding just by the lake beside the road near Cobham.
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    No need for a tornado. Imagine your trampoline is like a kind of round sail - the same sort which can shift 30 ton yachts along at 20 knots given the right wind.
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    I think the only thing which will give us some respite is Spring in North America. It's the only thing which will shift that PV back where it belongs (hot air expands), thereby equalising the temperatures between the North Atlantic and warmer tropical air which is spawning these lows.In a nutshell.
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    So depressing all this flooding and damage. But what is worse is people's stupidity… so you still go out for a St Valentine's meal at a beach-front restaurant when there are 70+mph winds forecast… then surprise surprise, rocks start flying through the windows??? Even stupider, the restaurant owners themselves, not boarding up their windows. I feel like something to cheer me up, so can anyone post any web cams of wind surfers - there was an excellent live one off some beach in the Netherlands of them in action, but I've lost it. I'd rather watch British ones. I know most used to head for the Selsey area, but whether there's a cam there, I don't know. So if anyone with local knowledge could provide a link I'd be very grateful...
  24. Iceni
    The day after the '87 hurricane was just like this but clearer - blue sky and completely calm - we could tackle the devastation with no worries about other branches blowing off onto us.
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    Well isn't it a joke? The farm manager (who doesn't even own the land) has been threatening to fell a beautiful line of poplars beside the road for the last few years. He's already taken down 30 of them further down the lane although only a few had a problem. But this morning we awoke to chainsaws just beside our front garden hedge. A large branch of one of HIS field-side poplars to the SW had come down across the road and smashed the top branches off our plum tree. I looked at the line of poplars under threat and not a SINGLE one of their branches had come off onto the farm track to their NNW - it wouldn't matter if they did anyway - it's a farm track and the prevailing wind's from the SW. They're all upright like a line of guardsmen on parade. Also love the way he just marched into our garden without bothering to ring our door bell to remove the branch and left me with a tangle of poplar and plum branches to clear up. We have this dream of letting the house, moving to Canada and letting the bottom acre of our garden to a tribe of gypsy travellers on a 9-year lease. See how he likes them instead of us.
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