That's why you've got lush green grass and don't have to top your lake up ... over here we had brown lawns until recently and brother's reservoirs were getting low ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
LOL.....I'm in for sure.....after a life of abusing my poor body ....Gaelic games, marathon running , aerobics teaching , squash ......even faux Irish dancing ......I remember in my 30s I was as fit as a butchers dog and had an ego to go with it .....I was on a business trip in France and I was invited to my first ever skiing experience in a place called Chamrousse ....I think so..... got on the slopes and felt this is easy......spent a whole day falling and getting up and decided I was going to show everybody how good I was......woke up early the next morning was first on the lift ......nobody told me how icy it could be that early ......set off without a care in the world .....it was then I realised ....I'm buggered.....all I remember was hurtling down the slope a$se over tit ......woke up in an ambulance with all but a fractured wrist and my pride in tact !.......never set foot on a slope again.....cross country is much safer .......after all that abuse , had my left hip replaced 10 years ago, my back op this year and I believe the right hip will need doing soon......'appy days .........So PP.......do I qualify for the 'KOG' club ?
Deadheading done, sweet peas picked, some tomatoes eaten ... proper breakfast of muesli and raspberries eaten, bathroom cleaned, washing on line .... and athletics on the telly
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've never known the weather pattern any different down here, for the past 70 years July and most of August is wet, the best months to visit are May to June and September.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
........ usually what's happening on the north coast is different to what's happening on the south, and what's happening inland is different again ... so we can just seek out the weather that suits ....
I know. I'm from Truro. I think any sea facing area that is reasonably hilly gets this kind of microclimate variation, all along the west coast of the UK. It doesn't always work though. There are times when the rain 'sets in' and it will rain - really rain - for a week without let up. This is probably why I have no good memories of camping holidays in Cornwall. As Lyn says, it's a rare year indeed when it doesn't rain a lot in this part of the world throughout July and August.
I agree Hosta - they say that they can now forecast a week ahead as accurately as they used to forecast 2 days ahead and I don't doubt that. I lived in the Cotswolds for many years and I found the forecasts there substantially more accurate as to the timing of rain arriving, for example, than it is here.
I'm hoping for a fine dry spell in early September when it can still be warm.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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That's why you've got lush green grass and don't have to top your lake up ... over here we had brown lawns until recently and brother's reservoirs were getting low ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
LOL.....I'm in for sure.....after a life of abusing my poor body ....Gaelic games, marathon running , aerobics teaching , squash ......even faux Irish dancing ......I remember in my 30s I was as fit as a butchers dog and had an ego to go with it .....I was on a business trip in France and I was invited to my first ever skiing experience in a place called Chamrousse ....I think so..... got on the slopes and felt this is easy......spent a whole day falling and getting up and decided I was going to show everybody how good I was......woke up early the next morning was first on the lift ......nobody told me how icy it could be that early ......set off without a care in the world .....it was then I realised ....I'm buggered.....all I remember was hurtling down the slope a$se over tit ......woke up in an ambulance with all but a fractured wrist and my pride in tact !.......never set foot on a slope again.....cross country is much safer .......after all that abuse , had my left hip replaced 10 years ago, my back op this year and I believe the right hip will need doing soon......'appy days .........So PP.......do I qualify for the 'KOG' club ?
Deadheading done, sweet peas picked, some tomatoes eaten ... proper breakfast of muesli and raspberries eaten, bathroom cleaned, washing on line .... and athletics on the telly
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
well Dach, that just proves how good exercise is for you, I've never exercised in my life and don't intend to start now.
Dove has just done as much excersise as is needed in a day?
I've never known the weather pattern any different down here, for the past 70 years July and most of August is wet, the best months to visit are May to June and September.
That's much the same with us in SW Scotland Lyn.........before the Scottish school holidays and after them. They go back next week so fingers crossed.
Ours go back start of September that's when we have a week off.
We head for Cornwall at the beginning of June or the beginning of September
I remember pony-trekking on Dartmoor at the end of July .......... I've never been so wet
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know. I'm from Truro.
I think any sea facing area that is reasonably hilly gets this kind of microclimate variation, all along the west coast of the UK. It doesn't always work though. There are times when the rain 'sets in' and it will rain - really rain - for a week without let up. This is probably why I have no good memories of camping holidays in Cornwall. As Lyn says, it's a rare year indeed when it doesn't rain a lot in this part of the world throughout July and August.
I agree Hosta - they say that they can now forecast a week ahead as accurately as they used to forecast 2 days ahead and I don't doubt that. I lived in the Cotswolds for many years and I found the forecasts there substantially more accurate as to the timing of rain arriving, for example, than it is here.
I'm hoping for a fine dry spell in early September when it can still be warm.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Weather sounds good to me. Hubby and I will be on holiday from 2nd -9th September. We are staying just outside Okehampton.