Wind picking up here now. I remember the big freeze of '63. Me and my friend went out onto a local lake (that was a gravel pit, so - deep!) and walked to a little island in the middle. My sister was so scared by what we were doing she ran home. It was OK, we tested the ice by stamping on it first!
🤣 @didyw we had a big pond at the edge of the farmyard ... Ma used to send Pa out to jump up and down on it 😱 before we were allowed to go sliding ... if Ma could hear cracking sounds we weren't allowed on the ice. Pa said that showed him his place in the grand scheme of things 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wind really picking up here now. Have had to rush out and restake our little mimosa, the existing stake snapped at ground level. Hope it will recover. Watering can took a wander down the drive, and one very heavy potted conifer blew over. Really noisy out there now. No trees down yet that I can see.
I went out late last night to stow the garden furniture safely, it is heavy teak but 70mph winds could still move it about. Tree tops waving about wildly here now but we are fairly sheltered from SW winds. Small bits of tree bouncing off the house but the big beeches were trimmed a couple of years ago so there is very little big debris so far. I think the '87 storm took down the weak trees in the garden, still have a large stump in one corner which nearly took out the garage apparently. Shopping postponed until this blows through, too many trees on the road into town.
I remember walking on a frozen Loch Lomond in '63 and some local lads drove a Mini over the ice to one of the islands.
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I remember the big freeze of '63. Me and my friend went out onto a local lake (that was a gravel pit, so - deep!) and walked to a little island in the middle. My sister was so scared by what we were doing she ran home. It was OK, we tested the ice by stamping on it first!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.