Is my pekin bantam male or female?

[MaggieMcHen]

Kent - pretty wet (rain sheetiing down and windy (lots of debri in the garden) - no 'take off' though. The hens are spending a LOT of time under the Cube dashing out every now and then to the covered run to grab a mouthful of food. I have unrolled the extra cover so that the run is almost completely covered except for about 18 inches along one side. Pond very full.

 

Oh and Jake seems to have been playing with a few frogs last night whilst he was out in the garden after his late night 'busy' found several dead and dying Luckily the population in my pond is very high so it wont make too much difference to the tadpole numbers.

 

Hope everyone else isn't too badly off.

[hillfamily]

Been up since 3am..........was in the garden at 3.45am checking on the girls (I looked very fetching in wellies, PJs and coat )

 

Very very windy here - next door have lost loads of roof tiles. At the mo our house is OK - only damage to things in the garden.

 

Have given up retreiving water butt lids (they're weighed down with bricks but the wind is knocking the bricks off aswell) and one of my garden storage boxes doesn't want to be at the side of the house.

 

I'm not letting the girls out - too much still flying around.\

 

Off to take DD and DS to school - will have a look to see if the sea has flooded the seafront road

[Lesley]

It's been very wet and windy here all night. Most things were tied down and made safe so the only casualty is the garden furniture.

 

It was very scary in the early hours as we are a bit exposed here.

 

I see there are lots of power cuts in the SW - and Portsmouth looked pretty horrendous on the news a minute ago.

[Egluntyne]

Just grey, wet and 'orrible here.

[Cinnamon]

My 2 tiny little Barbu Bantams are having a really hard time today - they keep getting blown about the poor things

 

The cat is in an odd mood too. He won't settle,keeps going in & out of the cat flap & is horribly fiesty with it

 

We are high here, with trees all around the house,so its pretty scarely seeing them all bending & swaying,out of every window

[Tara123]

Not so good here either. Got woken up by the wind and rain at about 5.15 this morning.

 

Dog wanted to go out for a wee but I didn't let him as it was so awful out there and I thought the fence was going to blow down and hit him. Told him that if he had to do it on the floor it would be OK, better to be safe than sorry were the winds concerned. Anyway luckily he didn't and by 7.30 it had settled down a bit to let him out.

 

Now its awful again Amazingly though my cheap £10 gazebo from B&Q is still here Its been up for nearly a year now and still going strong (well at the moment it is anyway)

[Guest]

Surrey/Sussex borders - there are quite a few trees down blocking roads and some flooding. Also pockets of power cuts, with a couple of closed schools. Southern trains is advising people not to travel.

 

It all looks as if it is calming down now though.

[Christian]

Very bad rain last night, my crocs in the covered porch are full of water

 

Blue skies here and very calm, but have just heard thunder

 

Lots of flights at Heathrow cancelled but mine is still going For now, anyway.

[hillfamily]

Lots of flights at Heathrow cancelled but mine is still going For now, anyway.

 

always the way

 

 

 

Took DD and DS to school and came back along the seafront road.........as I suspected in parts the beach is on the road Dread to think what it's like just a bit further along as they only need a light breeze for the sea defences to be breached.....I suspect by the traffic (or rather lack of it) the road must be completely closed further along.

 

It's calming down a bit........might let the girls have 1/2 hour in the garden under close supervision. There's supposed to be a lull before it gets bad again about lunchtime

[Eyren]

It was pretty vile here around 8am when I got a lift to work - horizontal rain and gusts of wind, but the bad weather seems to have blown away now - blue sky visible in places and some sunshine. I hope the pekins aren't getting too warm now in my conservatory!

[clucky1]

Very bad rain last night, my crocs in the covered porch are full of water

 

Blue skies here and very calm, but have just heard thunder

 

Lots of flights at Heathrow cancelled but mine is still going For now, anyway.

 

Always Glad that 'CROCS' hold out at times of national crisis !

Not too bad here at the moment. Although windy - rain has stopped. Sky man is here - hope he doesn't get blown off ladder

[chelsea]

Well, seeing as they keep forecasting that the westcountry will be bearing the brunt it really hasnt been too bad here.

 

It was windy in the night and we did loose power, but i've certainly heard wind/storms a lot worst in the past.

 

Its not raining here, hardly any wind and grey skies at the mo.

[Christian]

Spoke too soon

 

Black clouds, heavy rain and blustery showers now. Wind is picking up too. So much for the blue skies an hour ago

[janette1954]

Just beginning to get some strong gusts here in Bristol,been up the garden in favourite old nighty,when I grow old I shall wear purple dressing gown,hunter gardening clogs in the vegetable pattern,my neighbour who just waved to me knows its not the wind making my hair look wild !Girls were sheltering under the shower curtain[decorated with pictures of high heeled slippers, real bows and real fluffy powder puffs],didnt seem to think there was any need to panic yet.I often wonder what it must be like to one of those people who live in a tidy house with a perfect garden where livestock is banned in case the grass gets spoilt and wouldn't dream of going out of the house in sleeping attire.

[clucky1]

Just beginning to get some strong gusts here in Bristol,been up the garden in favourite old nighty,when I grow old I shall wear purple dressing gown,hunter gardening clogs in the vegetable pattern,my neighbour who just waved to me knows its not the wind making my hair look wild !Girls were sheltering under the shower curtain[decorated with pictures of high heeled slippers, real bows and real fluffy powder puffs],didnt seem to think there was any need to panic yet.I often wonder what it must be like to one of those people who live in a tidy house with a perfect garden where livestock is banned in case the grass gets spoilt and wouldn't dream of going out of the house in sleeping attire.

 

It' nice to know that it is not just me then !

[crazygal]

It was very wild here first thing (when I walked the children to school ), then the blue sky came and I let the chickens out for an hour, then the rain and wind started up again and they're now back in.

 

For the first time since I've had them one of them (I think its Clarice *craning my head to peer over my computer into the garden*) is sitting down in the run

 

I think she's ok because she's still pecking in front of her, still my immediate thought was PANIC CHICKEN DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO NORMAL!!

 

Silly me.

 

Hope you and your chickens are all safe where you are.

[crazygal]

oh she's got up

[chickencam]

we were woken by the weather at 5am and didn't really sleep after that. A few trees down locally and it was throwing it down at 7am when I let the chooks out and I had to put one of the greenhouse door panels back.

 

By the time the children went out for their bus at 7.45am it had just about stopped raining and there was some blue sky, this stayed until about 11am when the wind and heavy rain came back.

 

Hope those of you close to the coast don't have it too bad

[chelsea]

goodness

 

just watching the local news and for any of you that are familiar with Perranporth the sea front car park is covered in sea water and the sea is going up into the town centre

[Egluntyne]

Good Lord! I know Perranporth well.

[chelsea]

Good Lord! I know Perranporth well.

 

I was saying to hubby "hope the pasty shop is ok" !!

 

(gorgeous cornish pasties there )

[hillfamily]

- and Portsmouth looked pretty horrendous on the news a minute ago.

 

The poor reporter that was on BBC news this morning is also the reporter for local BBC South Today and on the local lunchtime news they still had her reporting from Portsmouth.........desperately clinging on to a microphone whilst the wind and rain swirled around her. Poor woman.........although not as unlucky as the guy reporting from Selsey........a large wave crashed over the sea defence and soaked him

[Egluntyne]

The tide can be fairly impressive there but, blimey....reaching the town centre.

[The Dogmother]

It was vile here last night and the wind and rain even woke me up (I slept through the earthquake). Biscuit slept curled up next to me all night.

 

I got up at 3.30am to check the windows were all locked, then put my earplugs in!

 

The chooks weren't too maused when I staggered down the garden to let them out this mroning, they looked out of tjhe covered run as if to say 'you MUST be joking Mum!' so I put them back in the run in the shelter.

 

We've had a combo of lulls, gale force winds, rain, sleet and hail!

[Eyren]

I was in Porthleven back in January and the weather was lovely (12 C and glorious sunshine) - glad I'm not there now!

 

Sideways rain on the campus today (what bright spark decided to orient the buildings east-west with a raised plaza between them???) - but there was a stunning rainbow c. 4.30pm