Battened down the hatches in the garden yesterday ready for today's storm but no high winds here in Birmingham just light rain. Garden looking so sad now and going to sleep.
Seemed to have missed the storm here, up to now at least.Hardly any rain where I was today but the nearer I got to home this evening the windy it got, with rain and a heavy hail storm.
Very clam first thing so friend went back to Aberdeen and had a reasonably good journey.
Not been anywhere as bad here (Norfolk) as East Anglia has had it further south (eg Suffolk and Essex). Short periods of strong wind on and off yesterday and then a bit this morning. Nothing destructive, thank goodness. A lot of rain though but that was only in the morning.
One good thing for me - the ominous forecast got me out in the blowy but at times balmy weather yesterday to rescue most of the best crop of Bramleys we've ever had. It also galvanised me to improvise an apple rack to store them:
Not a large crop by some standards but I'm pleased that the pruning earlier this year paid off.
Just needs a few more shelves to take the rest of the crop which thankfully survived the wind.
Oh can you tell me more fb - I was agonising for weeks about this crop being wasted until I thought of using the shelves that had been under my nose so long I'd stopped seeing them.
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Battened down the hatches in the garden yesterday ready for today's storm but no high winds here in Birmingham just light rain. Garden looking so sad now and going to sleep.
We keep having very heavy showers in WManchester. No damage as storm way south of us, phew. Still not that cold though, J.
Gloomy and wet in Dordogne. Bit windy earlier, but not now.
Sunshine and rainbows at the moment
,very windy again about an hour ago.
Seemed to have missed the storm here, up to now at least.Hardly any rain where I was today but the nearer I got to home this evening the windy it got, with rain and a heavy hail storm.
Very clam first thing so friend went back to Aberdeen and had a reasonably good journey.
Cold breeze, dry at minute, but does keep raining. Not nice. Don't envy you the hailstones.
Not been anywhere as bad here (Norfolk) as East Anglia has had it further south (eg Suffolk and Essex). Short periods of strong wind on and off yesterday and then a bit this morning. Nothing destructive, thank goodness. A lot of rain though but that was only in the morning.
One good thing for me - the ominous forecast got me out in the blowy but at times balmy weather yesterday to rescue most of the best crop of Bramleys we've ever had. It also galvanised me to improvise an apple rack to store them:
Not a large crop by some standards but I'm pleased that the pruning earlier this year paid off.
Just needs a few more shelves to take the rest of the crop which thankfully survived the wind.
There's a few apple pies there Birdy
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've been using big produce boxes from the supermarket.One layer deep, apples not touching each other.
Oh can you tell me more fb - I was agonising for weeks about this crop being wasted until I thought of using the shelves that had been under my nose so long I'd stopped seeing them.