South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards

[*Stormforce~beka*]

On my way to IKEA ... 

[Dorsetbred]

1 hour ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

On my way to IKEA ... 

Swedish meatballs for your meal then?

 Mapantz Nothing like that here.

[jtay]

 *Stormforce~beka* So sorry to hear that. 

[Andy Bown]

Small mercies ; dry from 08.00 until 19.30 although it remained extensively overcast. 
 

Heavy rain now and a very wet night on the way. 
 

Max of merely 8.6c, that’s the second time this week that’s not even reached 9c! 

[Mapantz]

23 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Max of merely 8.6c, that’s the second time this week that’s not even reached 9c! 

Crazy! It reached 14.8°C here when the sun came out. Pretty wet now - 8.8mm of rain so far.

[Andy Bown]

 Mapantz it was properly cold this afternoon at football when the E/SE wind started blowing. 

[Dorsetbred]

This whole area of rain seems to have extended further west, than forecasted initially, chucking it down at the moment.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 Dorsetbred Nah the Q was too long! But we did think about it. Ended up spending £260 instead ... Dropped off in the M27 Macdonalds on the way home and got back 930pmish!

 jtay Thank you! MUCH needed! I hate the place ...

[*Stormforce~beka*]

I cleaned the chooks, had lunch, got sleepy so had a lie down, got up to go in the garden, saw it was raining, swore and went to Ikea instead. End of day!

[offerman]

With all of the last 6 months rain and ground never having a chance to dry out all this rain only going to cause more flooding concerns on top of already saturated fields?? 
 

The poor farmers this year have not had any chance to put much on the way of crops in apparently due to the soddened fields and for the first time we will need importing wheat ,corn etc. 
 

We do need a prolonged dry spell for farmers and us! 

[jtay]

Water butt gone from empty to overflowing overnight. Just switched down pipe to fill the other one.

It feels cold out there too. Only 6.2C in the greenhouse.

[Andy Bown]

4.1c and still raining, pretty much nonstop rain for 14 hours! It woke us all around midnight. 
 

This past week’s set up 6 to 8 weeks ago would have been winter wonderland! 

[Dorsetbred]

Morning All, the sun is trying its hardest to break through warming things up after the overnight low of 4.6°C at: 05:55, currently 8.6°C, with RH92% and light air movement f4rom the NW.

From Above

On Golden sands, blue sky breaking through

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 jtay Mine is over flowing too

[jtay]

Sun's out.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 jtay Barely

[jy]

Just surfaced from bed to be greeted by sunshine,good timing lol bird feeder attached to window,ignored yesterday,now swarming with Tits...success.The hard working lady Woodpecker feeding non stop,which pleases 2 lazy rats feeding on the showers of free suet and peanuts.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 jy Blimey this is a bit late to be getting up lol!!

[jtay]

 *Stormforce~beka* It's on its way to you. Lovely here now.

Just put two bags of horse compost on the beds in the greenhouse. It's 22C in there now, so it stinks.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 jtay Yea it's looking better sun and cloud 

[jtay]

 *Stormforce~beka* Make the most of it. We're just about to get rained off from the West.

[Dorsetbred]

1 hour ago, jtay said:

Just put two bags of horse compost on the beds in the greenhouse. It's 22C in there now, so it stinks.

Ee by 'eck, there's nowt beats the smell of good horse manure compost in the sun or the boot of a warm car...

Edited April 28 by Dorsetbred

[jtay]

 Dorsetbred We had nine in the car. Back seats down. Honked.

[nettie]

Afternoon all !!   well the sun shone for abit disappearing  now , the other half was cold so he put the blooming  heating on its like a sweedish sauna in here thankfully no dangling bits on display . Anyway I got so hot I opened the back door to get fresh air my resident pigeon was sat there he whipped out a towel and his sunglasses think he thought he was in the Mediterranean with the heat that blasted out of door .

[Dorsetbred]

28 minutes ago, jtay said:

We had nine in the car. Back seats down. Honked.

Clears the catarrh nicely