Milly Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 ..... you go to hang the washing out and find the line is all tied down with bindweed! Which set me thinking, I can't remember when I last dared put any washing out to dry - must be a few weeks now. There must be a better way to spend a day off work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I left my wooden pegs out in the rain a few weeks ago and they've gone black and mouldy. Some summer, eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I know when it's been wet as there are loads of slugs in the chickens run - much to their entertainment ( they wouldn't go bed last night for flinging them around & playing netball with them! Also the frogs come out! I have been very brave lately and thought to myself if I see I frog I'm going to stare at it and think - watch it frog..I'm bigger than you. Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 We have had a tree fall over in our border,simply because the earth was too sodden to support it It was quite a big one too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 ...and the wild bird feeding station keeps leaning over, even though you put it straight all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 ....... your chickens are wearing wellies!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 ....... your chickens are wearing wellies!!! croc wellies I hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiglet Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 .......when you get a request off the chooks for water wings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 ....you plant 3 dahlias and go out to admire them a couple of days later to find 3 bunches of stalks. Grrrrrrr! Bloomin' slugs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiglet Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Yes, and aren't the slugs HUGE this year. I've "removed" some about 6 inches long!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Don't mention slugs...... We've lost a plum tree - it had a lot of fruit but the rain made it so heavy that it has split right down the middle Half is still upright and half is horizontal - the fruit and leaves are still OK except that the fruit on both halves is going rotten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I know it's been wet when I go outside when it's raining and have to boot the chickens off the back doorstep and then step in chicken poo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 ...when your hens stop drinking from the glug and survive on rainwater from the bars of their run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 ......... You find your car is not watertight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Also the frogs come out! I have been very brave lately and thought to myself if I see I frog I'm going to stare at it and think - watch it frog..I'm bigger than you. Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 When the electric control to open the boot on the car does'nt open. Happens every time and the garage could'nt find anything wrong with it? DER! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 When people at work are going round in bare feet. Here in Oxford it has been very dry up until today. Sometimes it went dark and there was one drop, but my grass was getting the bleached dried-out look this week, and I have been out watering twice. Wednesday was a beautiful hot dry day, and Thursday was quite nice too. But today it was wet. Seriously wet. Buckets full of water in the garden that were empty buckets last night. We have all been taken by surprise. It's the most rain there has ever been in a day in Oxfordshire for forty years (and there are still six hours of the day to go). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 ......you don't want to go outside and see your chickens because it's horrid weather ... and you pretend you haven't seen them desperate to be let out of the run as they will a) not get soaked and b) trash your lawn less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Your chooks start quacking instead of clucking and start developing webbed feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...