We had good rain yesterday but of course I want dry today so I can get on- never happy are we! It's dull & damp today so far hoping to get my late spuds in at last.
Can you remember a time when we've had this long a period of thundery weather. I always remember it being the assumption that at the end of a period of hot weather you'd get a big thunder storm to finish it off and freshen things up, but we've now had a weather warning for storms for a week and they've just added new ones for Thursday and Friday, and they don't seem to be freshening anything up. It seems very unusual to me, particularly for May. What a bizarre weather year this is turning into - even for the UK.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
Not actually raining today but looks like its going to let rip any moment, know what I mean? Got a bit over excited last night with slug scissors, I may have enjoyed myself a little too much, suddenly realised I had strayed up the garden in my nightie and most of my neighbours lights were on whoops!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Hammered it down with rain last night and early this morning , now just dull No need to water garden/allotment at moment , hoping they have filled water butts
I don't remember whole afternoons and evenings full of lightning and thunder before, no. The storms just seemed to sit over North London and not move and release, just go on and on. And now most of the rest of the week is full of thunder and low weather. I tried to take a picture of the extraordinary afternoon lightning bolts but the clouds were to dense.
GD, A daughter is setting off on a months cruise next week, she wanted me to go, I told her "I did cruises, a lot of them we called them troop ships"? Another Daughter lives in California and has a garage full of food and water just in case?? One holiday we did there was followed by an earthquake that brought down all the bridges a month later. You definitely appreciate the weather in this wonderful Country after living with water rationing constant heat and dust storms that can kill you. We came back to this country got off the boat and it was raining, we were told to run for the shelter of a warehouse, no one moved we just stood and soaked up the wonderful rain. You fly in from the brown continent and there it is the wonderful green landscape. Last time we flew back from America my Wife asked why we travel abroad when we have all this said she would never fly again and never did. Today we are having North Sea weather, dull though warm, at least we are not being washed away like the Southern area's I really feel for them. Frank.
When we first moved to Lincolnshire’s we use to get lighting storms regularly and they followed the river Witham , nice to see from back Conservatory⚡️
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No need to water garden/allotment at moment , hoping they have filled water butts
You definitely appreciate the weather in this wonderful Country after living with water rationing constant heat and dust storms that can kill you.
We came back to this country got off the boat and it was raining, we were told to run for the shelter of a warehouse, no one moved we just stood and soaked up the wonderful rain.
You fly in from the brown continent and there it is the wonderful green landscape. Last time we flew back from America my Wife asked why we travel abroad when we have all this said she would never fly again and never did.
Today we are having North Sea weather, dull though warm, at least we are not being washed away like the Southern area's I really feel for them.
Frank.