Rain !!!

The graveyard sounds lovely and peaceful LadyA, a lovely resting place.
Glad you are ok MrsBiscuit, is everything coated in sand around the house?
Stay safe and hopefully you will feel a bit cooler in a few days
 
No BYM, there is no sand debris to speak of, just this sort of grey dusty grime, but mostly its just oppressive. However, OH says it is forecast to go down to 20 tonight, hurrah hurrah hurrah, (I expect this to feel positively freezing!) before going to 30 tomorrow, which is normal and I can cope with.

The graveyard does sound serene, LadyA. I have sometimes thought about where I'd like to be buried, and it is in the village churchyard where I grew up, its old, its peaceful and backs onto the fields we played in. I know it will make no difference to me by then, but at least I will be in the countryside.
 
Goodness, MrsB I have problems when the temps get beyond 20!! I couldn't see myself coping with 40+!

Wonderfully cool here today! In fact, I had to put a light jacket on when I was out mowing & spraying! And that's another thing! Today is the first time I've had to mow the lawns since the beginning of June!! And as we're into August already, I can look foward to not having to do the weekly mowing now that I usually do in the Summer. As temps cool, the grass won't grow as fast. That's the theory anyway!
 
We seem to have had a lot of rain overnight, not that I was aware of it! ZZzzzzz! But my two new 300L water butts are full to the brim! They had been almost half full, as we've had odd showers since they were installed about ten days or so ago. I'm off to empty them into the big storage tank, which I emptied during the drought! :)
 
STILL nothing here. May was almost entirely without rain except for a downpour on the last day, over an inch in an hour. Then nothing at all in June, and only 1/2" about a week ago in July. A little bit of useless drizzle yesterday for an hour, not even 1mm in the rain gauge. Large cracks appearing in the ground of the fields and gardens.
 
It just seems to miss you Marigold! Friends in Suffolk said it was pouring yesterday, another friend near Pulborough, W.Sussex, had two hours of steady rain on Tuesday. We've had the odd ten minute spot of drizzle - not even enough to make me put the car hood up :(
 
It's rained, it's rained! Ten minutes after my post it started to drizzle then became a bit heavier. Two hours of fairly gentle rain but now the sun's shining. At least my cat now has some rainwater to drink!
 
We got rain to, from 6am until 5pm yesterday, nice and steady, then today we had a real tropical downpour for 20mins then more steady rain for about an hour, just getting really black again. Not enough to make a difference to the lake though.
Certain garden personnel took a dim view of all this as they thought cooler weather meant they could resume wandering about. Not hide from the rain.
We have huge cracks everywhere in the garden as well. A friend who had her frontage block paved is really regretting it now as random bricks are disappearing sideways down cracks, and represent a real trip hazard for the unwary
 
I was thinking of Chris this morning when I heard the news. Are you OK, Chris?

We've been blessed with the perfect kind of rain for the last two days- starting gently to soften the topsoil, then getting heavier & carrying on all day. Our drinking water comes from aquifers, so that's just what we need to start topping them up again.
 
Marigold said:
STILL nothing here. May was almost entirely without rain except for a downpour on the last day, over an inch in an hour. Then nothing at all in June, and only 1/2" about a week ago in July. A little bit of useless drizzle yesterday for an hour, not even 1mm in the rain gauge. Large cracks appearing in the ground of the fields and gardens.
Click to expand...

Was driving back from Basingstoke yesterday, just after posting this, when suddenly there was a torrential downpour, rain and hail, could hardly see my way round the ring road. Immediately flooded roads, drains not able to cope. Got back OK to Whitchurch, 12 miles away - well, we had had nearly half an inch, which was welcome, but had stopped by the time we got there.
The river Test, which runs through the town, is lower than I've ever seen it, only just covering the gravel bed. So our chalk aquifers must be very low by now, after a dry winter.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top