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Praise the rain Gods

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    🙂 - Been there @JennyJ. Often rains when we're on our hols but it never rains at home to keep the garden watered.

    @LG_  We are often in the gap here. Any showers coming in from the west have usually died out before they get here. We're too far west to enjoy any coastal rain and the SE (Kent, Surrey etc) often has rain which never gets as far north as us.

    We live fairly close to Beth Chatto's with her famous dry garden. There's a reason she decided to experiment with that...


    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Same here, Pennine rain shadow, but too far west for the coastal stuff. It's often raining in Sheffield and in Sunny Scunny when it's dry here.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Quite a lot of rain here last night, I actually think my water butts have been fully refilled! Horrible wind today though.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Rained quite heavily last night here on the Somerset Levels and then drizzle for the first part of the morning.
    Much needed and even the pond water level rose quite a bit.
    All plants really upbeat!
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    edited April 2021
    🥵 🌱🥀
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Still raining here, snow melted by mid morning and builder's dust has largely washed away or at least turned to a paste. It's times like this though that I realise I've forgotten to fix all the problems with the rainwater collection and have to run around getting wet while fixing leaks and unblocking pipes. :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    In spite of a grey and cold morning, nothing so I ventured to the Allotment. Few spots on the way, but them more persistent set -great or so I thought. Came home and within 10 min it's stopped again. We really really need much more.
    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    A few hours of decent showers here this afternoon. Not 'enough' but better than a poke in the eye with a spoon.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Right so that's people in the Cambridgeshire, the Midlands and further west with rain, people to the south (London) with rain but no sign of it here - not even a couple of teasing drops🤬

    Bloomin'  🥶 though.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    we had some dampness, but not really rain
    Devon.
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