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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Shed roof's just come off. Oh dear. I suppose it was going to have gone by the weekend one way or another. OH will have to do some (actual) battening tomorrow ahead of 85mph winds on Friday. I feel like March is coming in like a lion a couple of weeks early this year. Hopefully that means the weather will be lovely by mid March
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2022
    Oh ‘eck @raisingirl 
 that’s a right PITA 🙄 

     I was just pondering on why stormy winds always coincide with the evening we have to put the recycling bins out 
 they’re not weighty enough to stay upright when the wind whistles down the rise 
 and then it’s fun rounding up the recycling and put it back in the bin, only to have the bin blow over again 


    
 but that’s not as bad as a wayward shed roof 
 I am glad we had that big ash tree on the shady bank pollarded 
 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Another topic - went to the biggest DIY shop in La Roche to get some bits I need to finish the living room including some 6mm MDF cut to order.   No cutting service till 6th of March.

    Absolutely ludicrous.  They've just lost a customer. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    edited February 2022
    I might have to let @Fairygirl translate this one

    Gale: A poem by Kathleen Jamie ...

    Whit seek ye here?
    There's noucht hid i' wir skelly lums
    bar jaikies' nests.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They couldn’t have updated our weather report it give winds of 36mph for Friday, 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    They weren't exaggerating when they gave a weather warning for here. It's really very bad indeed. When it gusts it's terrifying. I'm halfway up a hill right in the path of the southwesterly. 
    Sorry to hear about your shed roof raisingirl. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'm guessing here @wild edges
    First line is fairly self explanatory. I'm assuming the rest is - there's nothing hidden here in our squint chimneys, except nests - and I expect it's referring to jackdaws, rather than the usual meaning for jaikie  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Devon.
  • We’ve just been out with a neighbour gathering up recycling from a bin that’s blown over up the rise 
. I could hear the bottles and tins above the sound of the wind, our tv and through the double glazing and wooden blinds. 
    We’ve brought our bins back in to the shelter again, and got our empty milk bottles in too cos they were rolling around the drive. 
    Ain’t life fun đŸ€©Â 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Seriously grim here too, stream overflowed mid afternoon, please stop now.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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