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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well you could knock me down with a feather!  Wonder what makes them think that?  


    I could’ve told them that a month ago 🙄 

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





  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    The picture on the edp report is St James hill, which is about 500 metres from my house as the crow flies. If they turned around they have got the best view of norwich.
    The boy racers hang out there on a Friday night with their little bbq's, so it might look even drier tomorrow. 
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    The wheels of government grind slowly on  eh , @Dovefromabove.. 😉
    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Well you could knock me down with a feather!  Wonder what makes them think that?  


    I could’ve told them that a month ago 🙄 

    I think the Met have specific stat boundaries to cross before a formal "Drought" can be declared. Some counties reached that while ago. Some have only just crossed it. I guess a minimum rainfall level or days without any rain at all.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Lyn said:
    I thought slugs had to hang by a mucus thread to mate.
    The Spanish slugs will thrive in this weather,  must be hot in Spain.
    Heat is not putting my snails off mating either,  more so now. 

    Some. Not the Spanish ones. Something more akin to a 69.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Not like snails, then.  They’re organs are both just behind the antennae.  I suppose they are somewhat impaired by the shell.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    A minor issue in the scheme of things, but the stream in our garden used to flow all year and we had Brook Trout and Crayfish in it. For the last 5 years it has always dried up sometime in the summer and we no longer have the trout and I suspect no Crayfish either.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Chalk streams and rivers are really struggling.
  • What really upsets me is reading articles reasons why huge fire develop like two days ago in a German newspaper, an interview with the manager of the police/fire department in Brandenburg, the federal county around Berlin.
    They had last year 547 fires, and just 12 of them were natural caused by lightening. 535 fires were 80% arson and careless behaviour, and 20% as a result of another event.
    The same with the current fire in France, from what I read, they have found the man who did this. He was already known for arson.
    In Portugal, they found in July 50 people who caused these huge fires. Just 23% are real wild-fire, everything else is careless behaviour and arson.

    I my garden.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same here on Dartmoor,  but you have to search for that information,  we are told all of the fires are automatically igniting due to our actions causing climate change. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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