fairy hope you feeling better, as you say another day, another week and another month (almost)!
Pat stay cool,
chicky I used to use the loo rolls too Never got round to it this year which is just as well with gh disaster
Clari I truly dont know how you manage to live as you do, We saw an old London fire engine yesterday, the kids were having fun on it. I recited your facts about great fire to other half who was much impressed!
joyce the black ice yesterday was very dangerous. Today is deep frost, very pretty but verrrrrry cold
specialist aeriel man coming today. We have rubbish signals because the old walls are so thick.
Punk what do you manage to keep in your gh. After last nights frost ours will be a fridge!
have a good day, stay safe
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
More rain here . Funny how quickly you become bored with it. ( sorry Pat and Glenys )
Pat, I'd swap in a heartbeat. 39C / 28% humidity, lovely .
I have to say, when we spent 3 months in Goa in winter, it was 33C pretty much every day but the humidity was much higher than 28%. We found the only folk who " suffered" with the weather were our friends who used air con. I persuaded friends who constantly complained with tummy troubles and headaches to go without air con for 4 consecutive days. Cured. They didn't believe me so switched the air con back and , surprise , surprise, all their troubles started again.
They had their A/C set at 16C. I suggested that if it was 16C at home, they'd switch their heating on. All to no avail. They went from their freezing flat, out into 33C, into a baking hot car, switched the AC on , back to freezing until they got out of their car, back to the heat etc etc. No wonder they felt ill.
As others have said, heat and intense humidity is worse. I can take any heat when it's " dry ".
I shall wrap up warm and head into the polytunnels today. I need to go buy a drill bit to make the hole in my bird boxes.
Foggy yet again, but I need to start doing stuff, so I will be cutting back some perennials today.
LP. I find that for many plants, it is not the cold that kills them, but a combination of rain and wind. I usually keep Gingers, tender Fuschias etc. going, although this year the green house is rather more ventilated than I would like.
Going to see if I can sit still for 2 hours this afternoon to try and do a tutorial in one go.
Have a good one everybody.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Horses broke the electric fence in the night, but luckily they stayed by the house. I've put them in another paddock. Log man is coming to mend it this afternoon. I can't bang in fence posts at the moment because of my rib pain from my cough and my arthritic shoulder which has had tendonitis. Lena wears a rug in winter and doesn't seem to feel the electricity in the fence.
Have to go out and buy some more fence posts.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sorry you've had a grotty weekend, Fairy. Hope today's an improvement.
Interesting theory about air con making you ill, Hosta. I guess for those who hate the heat, gradual acclimatisation would be best, but difficult to achieve...
You're obviously running a gourmet bird food bar, Joyce. Lovely to see them up close!
It's another grey, damp day. I think I should bite the bullet though, and visit all the fruit trees I'm due to prune, and see which are the most urgent. I'm not looking forward to doing the ones next to the market, when I'm likely to have an audience... perhaps I should prune those one day as soon as it gets light, so I'll only have the dog walkers to contend with. If I was less of a coward I'd see it as a useful teaching opportunity, I suppose!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
It is just a shame that the government have already dismissed it. The whole "will of the people" only seems to work when "the people" have been steered into an appropriate way of thinking that the government are comfortable with.
I am now at work. It is cold. I am all alone until 16:00 when a volunteer joins me ready for this evenings visitors. I have already run around touching the DO NOT TOUCH signs. What to do next?!
Hello , air conditioning has given me coughs but what we do now is put bowls of water in room to stop it drying out to much , also set it to 21 degrees
Central heating packed in last night , so fire lit and waiting for Brirush Gas this afternoon , we usually go on an organised walk on Mondays so o/h is going on own and I will do dome house work
Clari , hope you find something to do in the Museum
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morning all
fairy hope you feeling better, as you say another day, another week and another month (almost)!
Pat stay cool,
chicky I used to use the loo rolls too Never got round to it this year which is just as well with gh disaster
Clari I truly dont know how you manage to live as you do, We saw an old London fire engine yesterday, the kids were having fun on it. I recited your facts about great fire to other half who was much impressed!
joyce the black ice yesterday was very dangerous. Today is deep frost, very pretty but verrrrrry cold
specialist aeriel man coming today. We have rubbish signals because the old walls are so thick.
Punk what do you manage to keep in your gh. After last nights frost ours will be a fridge!
have a good day, stay safe
A A Milne
Morning all.
More rain here . Funny how quickly you become bored with it. ( sorry Pat and Glenys )
Pat, I'd swap in a heartbeat. 39C / 28% humidity, lovely .
I have to say, when we spent 3 months in Goa in winter, it was 33C pretty much every day but the humidity was much higher than 28%. We found the only folk who " suffered" with the weather were our friends who used air con. I persuaded friends who constantly complained with tummy troubles and headaches to go without air con for 4 consecutive days. Cured. They didn't believe me so switched the air con back and , surprise , surprise, all their troubles started again.
They had their A/C set at 16C. I suggested that if it was 16C at home, they'd switch their heating on. All to no avail. They went from their freezing flat, out into 33C, into a baking hot car, switched the AC on , back to freezing until they got out of their car, back to the heat etc etc. No wonder they felt ill.
As others have said, heat and intense humidity is worse. I can take any heat when it's " dry ".
I shall wrap up warm and head into the polytunnels today. I need to go buy a drill bit to make the hole in my bird boxes.
Catch you all later.
Hi all
Foggy yet again, but I need to start doing stuff, so I will be cutting back some perennials today.
LP. I find that for many plants, it is not the cold that kills them, but a combination of rain and wind. I usually keep Gingers, tender Fuschias etc. going, although this year the green house is rather more ventilated than I would like.
Going to see if I can sit still for 2 hours this afternoon to try and do a tutorial in one go.
Have a good one everybody.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928
this made me laugh.
Morning all.
Horses broke the electric fence in the night, but luckily they stayed by the house. I've put them in another paddock. Log man is coming to mend it this afternoon. I can't bang in fence posts at the moment because of my rib pain from my cough and my arthritic shoulder which has had tendonitis. Lena wears a rug in winter and doesn't seem to feel the electricity in the fence.
Have to go out and buy some more fence posts.
Great isn't it Hosta, it went up by over 1000 whilst I was watching it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The nuthatch has now decided to visit the cheese/oats pot
I'm going through cheese ++
Morning all.
That petition was on 999,987 when I signed it...
Sorry you've had a grotty weekend, Fairy. Hope today's an improvement.
Interesting theory about air con making you ill, Hosta. I guess for those who hate the heat, gradual acclimatisation would be best, but difficult to achieve...
You're obviously running a gourmet bird food bar, Joyce. Lovely to see them up close!
It's another grey, damp day. I think I should bite the bullet though, and visit all the fruit trees I'm due to prune, and see which are the most urgent. I'm not looking forward to doing the ones next to the market, when I'm likely to have an audience... perhaps I should prune those one day as soon as it gets light, so I'll only have the dog walkers to contend with. If I was less of a coward I'd see it as a useful teaching opportunity, I suppose!
It is just a shame that the government have already dismissed it. The whole "will of the people" only seems to work when "the people" have been steered into an appropriate way of thinking that the government are comfortable with.
I am now at work. It is cold. I am all alone until 16:00 when a volunteer joins me ready for this evenings visitors. I have already run around touching the DO NOT TOUCH signs. What to do next?!
Hello , air conditioning has given me coughs but what we do now is put bowls of water in room to stop it drying out to much , also set it to 21 degrees
Central heating packed in last night , so fire lit and waiting for Brirush Gas this afternoon , we usually go on an organised walk on Mondays so o/h is going on own and I will do dome house work
Clari , hope you find something to do in the Museum