I'm another who has been known to wash the car in the rain! Being on a water meter & having a silver car.... It needs it now, but noway at the mo.
Raining non stop since yesterday, but at least the wind is less. Total waterlogging behind the shed where the water butt is overflowing. No idea when will get a couple of dry days together so can do the lawn's final cut......
OH said that his walk back from work yesterday was rather difficult. The canal towpath that he uses was flooded & his detour not much better.
Rain- sympathies. You will have lots of happy memories. J.
A bit of this and a bit of that: rain = heavy downpours Sun = bright interludes. Managed to clear runner/climbing French beans, and dug over the veg patch. (OH was dragooned into helping: much complaining and grizzling - but all now ship-shape amd ready for winter veg .
Here in the NW We've had none stop rain now for two days.
Came home through the local villages today. Most of the fields were flooded. The council have worked hard to keep the water back in streams, most have turned into rising torrential rivers, tractors and diggers were out this morning piling up the banks with soil, clay and sand. A lot of roads are closed and the drains are pushing out water rather than the other way round. Heard on the radio it isn't much better in the NE.
If we get a hose pipe ban next year I'll be writing to the water companies
The more I see on the news and the more I read on this board, the more I realise that we (West Somerset) have escaped relatively lightly. I do hope that those in the worst affected areas are OK.
The weather here is getting worse by the hour, the wind has dropped but the rain has got heavier, the garden is flooded again but at least it's good at draining away, supposed the be like this tomorrow then on Thursday the sun in supposed to shine and stay shining till Sunday, will it I wonder I could do with a dry day so I can bury my Lydia, I have a nice sunny spot for her as she loved to lay in the sun either through the window or in the garden.
Rain - when my most beloved cat, Zoe, died, I was devastated. She was 21years old - a very goodly age indeed, but that didn't make it any easier. I buried her underneath a lovely hydrangea, and I still think of her when I am in that part of the garden.
At the cat rescue place, the kitten that I wanted was lovely; they needed a home for her two year old mother as well, and, softie that I am, I took her on as well.
Having been ill-used by her farmer-owner, she was a difficult cat, hissing and growling when picked up. Today, many years on, she is a mirror image of my Zoe. She follows me down the garden path like a little dog. She trips me up in the greenhouse, preferring to curl up near my feet when I am pricking out/seed-sowing. She likes (uniquely) to climb next-door's ornamental pear tree and seemingly "nest" in the high branches, to the amusement of neighbours.
She doesn't replace Zoe. But she comes pretty close! Her name is Kiri (after the opera singer) and I love her to bits.
We got it and how, my Daughter dashed up and dropped off my grandson off school with a bad stomach and Max the dog. She had a lot to do but owing to Stockton being almost cut off by flooding she was called to pick up Granddaughter from school early then could not get back here. They raised the banks on the Lustrum beck years ago and it worked until today, every beck was over the top and we have lots of them. Daughter made it here at around five and was dashing back before more heavy rain arrived. I was unable to shop so it was panackelty today, it went down well with us and the dogs.
"Panackelty" must be a local dialect term, Frank, for which we need a translation! I'm guessing from the context that it's a term for making do with whatever is available in the larder.
Glad that you're not drowning under the deluge btw!
Panackelty is a North Eastern make do one pot dish and was used a lot in wartime when corn beef was often easy to get, (we had docks unloading ships all round us).
Butter an oven dish, thinly slice potato's onions leeks and have some peas ready then layer, a bottom layer of potato cover with a thin layer of onion and leek mixed then scatter some peas, now thinly sliced corn beef and start again, the last layer or top is thinly cut potato brushed with butter then pour in a good stock (Sundays chicken) until near the top layer of potato pop in the oven at 170 for one and a half hours. One pot dish complete with gravy. PS answered message.
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We are quite lucky on the south coast not too many floods. Now have really bright sunshine now where have put my sunglasses.
I'm another who has been known to wash the car in the rain!
Being on a water meter & having a silver car.... It needs it now, but noway at the mo.
Raining non stop since yesterday, but at least the wind is less. Total waterlogging behind the shed where the water butt is overflowing. No idea when will get a couple of dry days together so can do the lawn's final cut......
OH said that his walk back from work yesterday was rather difficult. The canal towpath that he uses was flooded & his detour not much better.
Rain- sympathies. You will have lots of happy memories. J.
A bit of this and a bit of that: rain = heavy downpours Sun = bright interludes. Managed to clear runner/climbing French beans, and dug over the veg patch. (OH was dragooned into helping: much complaining and grizzling - but all now ship-shape amd ready for winter veg
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Here in the NW We've had none stop rain now for two days.
Came home through the local villages today. Most of the fields were flooded. The council have worked hard to keep the water back in streams, most have turned into rising torrential rivers, tractors and diggers were out this morning piling up the banks with soil, clay and sand. A lot of roads are closed and the drains are pushing out water rather than the other way round. Heard on the radio it isn't much better in the NE.
If we get a hose pipe ban next year I'll be writing to the water companies
The more I see on the news and the more I read on this board, the more I realise that we (West Somerset) have escaped relatively lightly. I do hope that those in the worst affected areas are OK.
Is this the price we pay for "Global Warming"?
Thanks Maud for the kind words.
The weather here is getting worse by the hour, the wind has dropped but the rain has got heavier, the garden is flooded again but at least it's good at draining away, supposed the be like this tomorrow then on Thursday the sun in supposed to shine and stay shining till Sunday, will it I wonder I could do with a dry day so I can bury my Lydia, I have a nice sunny spot for her as she loved to lay in the sun either through the window or in the garden.
Rain - when my most beloved cat, Zoe, died, I was devastated. She was 21years old - a very goodly age indeed, but that didn't make it any easier. I buried her underneath a lovely hydrangea, and I still think of her when I am in that part of the garden.
At the cat rescue place, the kitten that I wanted was lovely; they needed a home for her two year old mother as well, and, softie that I am, I took her on as well.
Having been ill-used by her farmer-owner, she was a difficult cat, hissing and growling when picked up. Today, many years on, she is a mirror image of my Zoe. She follows me down the garden path like a little dog. She trips me up in the greenhouse, preferring to curl up near my feet when I am pricking out/seed-sowing. She likes (uniquely) to climb next-door's ornamental pear tree and seemingly "nest" in the high branches, to the amusement of neighbours.
She doesn't replace Zoe. But she comes pretty close! Her name is Kiri (after the opera singer) and I love her to bits.
We got it and how, my Daughter dashed up and dropped off my grandson off school with a bad stomach and Max the dog. She had a lot to do but owing to Stockton being almost cut off by flooding she was called to pick up Granddaughter from school early then could not get back here.
They raised the banks on the Lustrum beck years ago and it worked until today, every beck was over the top and we have lots of them.
Daughter made it here at around five and was dashing back before more heavy rain arrived. I was unable to shop so it was panackelty today, it went down well with us and the dogs.
Frank.
"Panackelty" must be a local dialect term, Frank, for which we need a translation! I'm guessing from the context that it's a term for making do with whatever is available in the larder.
Glad that you're not drowning under the deluge btw!
Panackelty is a North Eastern make do one pot dish and was used a lot in wartime when corn beef was often easy to get, (we had docks unloading ships all round us).
Butter an oven dish, thinly slice potato's onions leeks and have some peas ready then layer, a bottom layer of potato cover with a thin layer of onion and leek mixed then scatter some peas, now thinly sliced corn beef and start again, the last layer or top is thinly cut potato brushed with butter then pour in a good stock (Sundays chicken) until near the top layer of potato pop in the oven at 170 for one and a half hours.
One pot dish complete with gravy.
PS answered message.
Frank.