Thanks nut, the area where the pond is situated is roughly the lowest point in the garden and the turves on the boggy area side are almost constantly wet. Well certainly with this weather they are!
I had a couple of hours in the garden yesterday before work, clear blue sky, not a single cloud. At 7pm I driving in a hideous thunderstorm with rain pouring off the fields on to the roads. Even in a Mercedes Sprinter van ( good ground clearance ) I did stop and think " can I get through this?"
Rained over night, cannot see the sky for a sea mist inshore from the North Sea. It is as yesterday warm, the garden still in late bloom and the grass still growing, no frost as yet.
I smile thinking about 18 months when I never saw a drop of rain in the Desert, when the sky darkened it was a dust storm when all stopped until it was over. Back in Englands green pleasant and rainy clime I would walk in the rain without a coat just to feel it on my skin, bless what you have I say.
I remember the summer of 1976. Loads of people thought it was great but farmers didn't, not in the south anyway. I was milking cows in Wiltshire and there wasn't a blade of grass anywhere. We were importing hay from oop north having used up any spare silage. We didn't dare use up the main silage as there might not have been anything for winter. I danced in the rain when it came. My daughter lived on Sark for a while. No miles of pipeline there or in the outback of Australia where my brother lived. If it didn't rain into his roof tanks then it had to be purchased by lorry load from town. Very expensive.
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Thanks nut, the area where the pond is situated is roughly the lowest point in the garden and the turves on the boggy area side are almost constantly wet. Well certainly with this weather they are!
Its been a bit weird here, terrible winds and rain and then loveley sunshine and blue skies.
The whole of the sky in the west is a dramatic bright yellow here - not for nothing is the Norwich football team called the Canaries
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now the sky is a deep honey colour
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now the sky looks like a bad bruise - purplish grey all over with yellow and red edges.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had a couple of hours in the garden yesterday before work, clear blue sky, not a single cloud. At 7pm I driving in a hideous thunderstorm with rain pouring off the fields on to the roads. Even in a Mercedes Sprinter van ( good ground clearance ) I did stop and think " can I get through this?"
Rained over night, cannot see the sky for a sea mist inshore from the North Sea. It is as yesterday warm, the garden still in late bloom and the grass still growing, no frost as yet.
I smile thinking about 18 months when I never saw a drop of rain in the Desert, when the sky darkened it was a dust storm when all stopped until it was over. Back in Englands green pleasant and rainy clime I would walk in the rain without a coat just to feel it on my skin, bless what you have I say.
Frank.
Dove, the sky over your end sounds like it was beautiful. I'm a sucker for sunsets.
I remember the summer of 1976. Loads of people thought it was great but farmers didn't, not in the south anyway. I was milking cows in Wiltshire and there wasn't a blade of grass anywhere. We were importing hay from oop north having used up any spare silage. We didn't dare use up the main silage as there might not have been anything for winter. I danced in the rain when it came. My daughter lived on Sark for a while. No miles of pipeline there or in the outback of Australia where my brother lived. If it didn't rain into his roof tanks then it had to be purchased by lorry load from town. Very expensive.