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🌻HELLO FORKERS 🌻July ‘22🌻🌻🌻

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited July 2022
    Was thinking of you earlier @AuntyRach, glad you survived the heat. Put your feet up tomorrow, you've earned it.

    Sounds a delicious day @Busy-Lizzie, glad you enjoyed it.

    I've just watered my new roses and put rose feed around some of them - hoping for more rain tomorrow.

    @Allotment Boy Just been reading about some of the fires around London - rather alarming.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Just had a cool shower and watched QI until my hair dried … now I’m in bed, but it feels as if there’s an electric blanket beneath me …. and we don’t have one!!!

    night night folks … let’s hope for a restful night … sweet dreams 😴 

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Maybe you need a cold water bottle @Dovefromabove.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I had one last night @Busy-Lizzie … but it needs a new washer … the stopper leaked … I had a wet bed 🤣 

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





  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    It's still 30 here at 10pm.... Can't stand it... Just cooked dinner but don't want to eat.... This is no fun! Glad you have a day of tomorrow @AuntyRach.... Eat large amounts of ice cream and do very little!  :) Take care all
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    We had a downpour for 10-15 minutes around 9pm. Its now hotter inside than out. Don't think I  can sleep in the greenhouse but it's tempting 😆
    AB Still learning

  • AnnaBAnnaB Posts: 524
    Sounds as though it has been pretty uncomfortable for most of you in this heat and I admit that I have been struggling too. I can remember THAT summer of 76 because I was haymaking at the time. With a couple of small tractors and very basic (back then) haymaking equipment we cut, then turned, then wuffled, then lined up the hay during the week before baling it. Bales were spread all over the fields and were carted by hand into piles of 6 or 8 before being collected by tractor and trailer - all stacked by me by hand up to 6 layers high plus a single extra layer down the centre on the top - known as the 'hat' coz it kept the bales secure on their journey back to the farm. Then they all had to be moved from the trailer and restacked in the barn - by hand again! We made nearly 5000 bales that year and had a lot of happy animals through the winter months.
    Oh for the energy of youth!! Stay cool everyone the weather will break soon. 
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    That story made me very glad I was born in 76 @AnnaB, so as it goes, just a little too young to enjoy baling which I joined in with the family at the age of 10 😊
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Morning all. I’ve been out taking a few photo. Very heavy frost earlier.
    These were taken at 10.30 am. Still cold but not as bad as earlier.


    I’m feeling for all of you over there. There have been lots of photos of fires in France and UK. It seems that our situation has been reversed. 😳
    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Just saw terrible fires at Wennington UK.   Lots of footage of burning pine trees in France.   Now you know why I hate hot weather. Give me cold any time. 
    S. E. NSW
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