Torrential rain last night here in Bristol. Showers on and off all day but warm. Not a bad day tomorrow so the man on the telly says, but next week the same as usual. Rain, rain and more rain
Home again - and would you believe it - the sun is shining! And it's predicted to do so tomorrow as well.
Driving back across Exmoor, the temperature was showing as 11 C - and this for July! tomorrow is St Swithin's Day - so fingers crossed, everyone, for sunshine all round
In the life of Pick 'n' Mix, David, I seem to get all the hard inedible ones
Oh, well, I'm getting a bit philosophical about it all now - go on hols = rain (we always have some rain no matter where or when we go - the Med or US or stay-at-home. We've got used to it now - lots of practice ). Come home = sun.
The garden is overflowing - lots that has flopped with the wet and lots that needs dead-heading, cutting back etc etc. So that's the next week taken care of . . .
Might struggle to get camel do dar through customs Frank and, having 'search me' stamped on my forehead, I'd find it a tad bit difficult to explain the contents of my suitcase.
We had rolling black clouds until mid afternoon, then the sun shone through so when I got home planted out more vegs where the garlic and pea's had been. I've a tray of what looks like winter veg but the label is missing so it's anybody's guess what will grow.
Well, it's gone and spoilt itself now as it's raining and the spots are huge not to heavy but enough to damage the plants and roses in the garden, a shame really as I managed to hoe over the borders where it was dry enough, guess that's it for a while
Might struggle to get camel do dar through customs Frank and, having 'search me' stamped on my forehead, I'd find it a tad bit difficult to explain the contents of my suitcase.
After watching some of those customs programmes it seems people swallow it Zoomer!! Of course it would be wise to put it in a little plastic bag first otherwise you may grow green palm leaves instead of hair. Different, but could cause a few crashes on the M62 as you head to Teesside.
David, you kick started my memory of history lessons long gone, it was called history back then and not folk law. The interest stayed with me all my life having lived through historical or should that be hysterical times. Swithunus Escopus Bishop of Winchester reputed to have gone to Rome with king Arthur? no Euro-train then. Was Sainted when his body was buried in Winchester after it was rebuilt, with a bit of luck he will change the weather today and we are having sunshine on Teesside, the fourth day in a row. The weather forecaster told us early in the week we would get one day of sun and more floods, wrong again, it did rain after tea last night but my sheets will be going on the line soon as the washer is done with them. People say history matters not, then it comes back to belt us one and we never learn, if we did we would not be up to our necks in Afghanistan. Live and learn we do not.
Thanks for that, Frank, although it's bit 'coals to Newcastle' in my case, as I've always been a bit of a History buff meself......although I will admit to being mainly interested in the Tudor & Victorian eras.
Btw, I see folklore as being fiction in the main & history being well documented fact.
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Home again - and would you believe it - the sun is shining! And it's predicted to do so tomorrow as well.
Driving back across Exmoor, the temperature was showing as 11 C - and this for July! tomorrow is St Swithin's Day - so fingers crossed, everyone, for sunshine all round
Pleased to hear you arrived home safely, SV....bit of a mixed bag of weather you've had, I imagine.
In the life of Pick 'n' Mix, David, I seem to get all the hard inedible ones
Oh, well, I'm getting a bit philosophical about it all now - go on hols = rain (we always have some rain no matter where or when we go - the Med or US or stay-at-home. We've got used to it now - lots of practice
). Come home = sun.
The garden is overflowing - lots that has flopped with the wet and lots that needs dead-heading, cutting back etc etc. So that's the next week taken care of . . .
Might struggle to get camel do dar through customs Frank
and, having 'search me' stamped on my forehead, I'd find it a tad bit difficult to explain the contents of my suitcase.
We had rolling black clouds until mid afternoon, then the sun shone through so when I got home planted out more vegs where the garlic and pea's had been. I've a tray of what looks like winter veg but the label is missing so it's anybody's guess what will grow.
Well, it's gone and spoilt itself now as it's raining and the spots are huge not to heavy but enough to damage the plants and roses in the garden, a shame really as I managed to hoe over the borders where it was dry enough, guess that's it for a while
After watching some of those customs programmes it seems people swallow it Zoomer!! Of course it would be wise to put it in a little plastic bag first otherwise you may grow green palm leaves instead of hair. Different, but could cause a few crashes on the M62 as you head to Teesside.
Frank.
Dry here today and today being St Swithin's Day (if folklore is to be believed) it should be dry for the next 40 days & nights.
Well, as rain is forecast (again) after today, I think perhaps someone along the line may have got it wrong.
Should it have been if it's dry on St Swithin's Day, it will rain on every other day of the year?
David, you kick started my memory of history lessons long gone, it was called history back then and not folk law. The interest stayed with me all my life having lived through historical or should that be hysterical times.
Swithunus Escopus Bishop of Winchester reputed to have gone to Rome with king Arthur? no Euro-train then.
Was Sainted when his body was buried in Winchester after it was rebuilt, with a bit of luck he will change the weather today and we are having sunshine on Teesside, the fourth day in a row. The weather forecaster told us early in the week we would get one day of sun and more floods, wrong again, it did rain after tea last night but my sheets will be going on the line soon as the washer is done with them.
People say history matters not, then it comes back to belt us one and we never learn, if we did we would not be up to our necks in Afghanistan. Live and learn we do not.
Frank.
Thanks for that, Frank, although it's bit 'coals to Newcastle' in my case, as I've always been a bit of a History buff meself......although I will admit to being mainly interested in the Tudor & Victorian eras.
Btw, I see folklore as being fiction in the main & history being well documented fact.