Rain !!!

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Tweetypie

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It's been raining here in Notts for 2 hours. The hens have eventually ventured out from their hiding place under the shrubs, but are not impressed and have their tail feathers down. Never thought I would be so pleased to see rain pelting down on my freshly cleaned windows :D
 
Missed us - again - slight shower in the night, 1-2mm, not enough to put an end to nearby noisy party in neighbouring garden. That's all we've had for 51 days now, and no more is forecast for foreseeable future.
 
Missed us again, it got dark and we thought this is it. Four spots and that was it
 
We've had nothing. It's cloudy again today. We had glowering, black clouds all day yesterday. It looked like it was going to pour rain, heavily. But not a drop did we see. I've been looking at the weather patterns on www.ventusky.com and it's really frustrating to see the bands of rain heading our way, and either just dissipating into nothing, or veering off to the north before they reach us! https://www.ventusky.com/?p=53.0;-4.1;3&l=rain-3h
 
Nothing growing here, and the trees are looking like they normally would at mid to end September. Dead leaves fluttering down all over. Several trees look distinctly dead. :(
 
Wouldn't let the grass be cut about 5 weeks ago because it was full of white clover. The bees worked it all, so now it's just brown flower heads.

Light rain for an hour or so yesterday - the brown areas of the "lawn" are less crisp today.
 
Am I permitted a wry smile!

I hope you have had a lovely breakfast and are ready to face the day today. I think being allowed whatever you like for breakfast is the reward for spending the night outdoors, I love camping, but I have to admit to having moved on from a Karrimat and sleeping bag when I was a girl to a blow up mattress and a duvet (if a car is involved)!

Fingers crossed for the trees, and isn't clover a great plant, its so cool and green, then full of lovely nectar to attract the buzzing bees, and finally it makes delicious honey. My hens and the cockerals were never interested in it. Here you see clover a bit, but more common is a clover relation called narrow leaved crimson clover, which is vibrant pink whilst in bud, which is also quite narrow and not very nectary, and then it dries and looks like a grass. I have also managed to attract crimson clover which is deep red and very attractive, with longish deep red flowers, but apparently its a fodder crop, not a honey crop.
 
I've only gone camping once in my life, in my early 20s. Never again! We got washed out of it with rain, and the tent and we got infested with fleas, after camping in a field! So badly infested, that first thing the following morning, we had to find a chemist and buy flea powder, liberally dust the tent and all our clothes and belongings!! You should have seen the vast number of tiny dead bodies on the floor of the tent afterward!! I'm not a roughing it type. I don't mind the eating outdoors/tent thing. But I absolutely HAVE to have a proper loo!!
 
Can't say I'll be bothering again. Camped at Silverstone, for their classic weekend. My mate has a fancy brand new vw camper, I was in a tent with a couple of mates.
Good news, my brother was looking after my hens and said all three waterbarrels are full.
I'd been saving my shower water to keep the bamboo alive.
 
Camped at Silverstone for a vintage car race meeting many years ago and swear the thunderstorm did 4 laps of the circuit! We were OK as out tent was on a slight hummock but people in the "dips" were flooded out. Way back then no B&B did breakfast early enough to get to the circuit for our practice sessions - eventually solved he towing and accommodation problem with a camper van. That was fine until the gas bottle needed changing in a blizzard at Silverstone and OH dropped the cap into 4 inches of snow!
 
Clout shoot today was fun, Sorry, didn't manage to get any pictures but one of these days. Had to fling the arrows very high to make any distance and was very relieved to miss a passing crow (but not by much.)
Worst camping mistake ever, as a teenage, was when we thought it would be fine pitching the tent on the beach, well above the obvious waterline, but hadn't reckoned on what the sand fleas do as the tide comes in - vacate the sand in hopping clouds as the tide advances and sound like heavy rain on the canvas. It was too dark to move to another spot and they did get in the tent. No sleep that night!
 
First time I camped was after an evening playing darts in a Scarborough pub. I was very foggy but we found a piece of flat grass somewhere and set up the tent. Woke up in the morning to the sound of rattling milk bottles and discovered we had parked and set up the tent in someones front garden!

The second time was in the Lake district. It rained continuously for 5 days and nights by which time we'd had enough.

Next was in Devon but the camp sites were so noisy at night we couldn't sleep and went B&B for the remainder of the holiday.

Camping in France is great but it still rains with the odd thunderstorm with wind which tears out the tent pegs and leaves you hanging onto the fabric to keep it on the ground!
 
Not the first time I camped but one dark and sleety night I crossed a road and found an ideal area of grass concealed by bushes. As it was just outside Chicago I thought this would be safe. And it was but I awoke to the sound of heavy traffic. I was on a roundabout with major roads in all directions.
 
We've had a teeny bit of rain!! It literally was just a shower, and only barely made the ground briefly damp, but I'm so hoping that it's just the start of a good period of rain!
Living in Ireland, I never thought to see the day that I'd be hoping for a few really wet days!!
 
Still no rain here, and none in prospect. I was volunteering at the local library yesterday afternoon, helping with the Summer Reading Challenge for primary school children. 30C outside - but my desk was underneath the aircon unit, wonderfully cool. Next session on Friday, I'm looking forward to it. We went to Salisbury today, where I grew up. Very quiet, no problem parking. Big banners are up on the heras panels now fencing off the River Avon where it runs through the town, defiantly (and inaccurately) claiming 'Salisbury is now open for business again!" I saw a clip on the news from some people who said they would definitely be afraid to visit Salisbury now. I'm not sure what the incubation period is, but since neither of us rummaged in rubbish bins for dirty old bottles of supposed perfume to spray on ourselves, and both washed off any novichok before eating our lunch, we seem to have escaped unharmed so far.
 
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