Cat tails Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 It is above ZERO! Let the big thaw begin!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 You are all having mad weather, its been entertaining reading your posts.  I especially like the fact that MT and me would be dead if we lived in Scotland, yet BRR obviously thrives on it. Perhaps hot bins will become the new hot tubs (can you imagine!), I wonder if you could sacrifice some of the heat and use the bin to grow pineapples or melons? And CT, your photo reminds me of a modern day Breugel. I don't suppose many of us in the UK have ever seen a scene like that, with people skating on a road. Even here its been an odd year so far, we had 10 days of frost which is unheard of (well not literally, apparently it has been the coldest January for 25 years), then our usual 10 days of rain and now we are having a few days of bright sun, the hottest place yesterday was on the Algarve, 21! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Yes!  4 degrees here.  Double figures forecast later in the week.  Spring is hopefully springing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 In front of my house this morning = hoorah we are free again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 29 minutes ago, Blackrocksrock said: In front of my house this morning = hoorah we are free again 😳 that is a lot of snow!!! 2 hours ago, Daphne said: And CT, your photo reminds me of a modern day Breugel. I don't suppose many of us in the UK have ever seen a scene like that, with people skating on a road. Luckily it’s a pond, not a road! 😅 Although there was a kid ice skating on a road in front of her house. All the snow is so compacted and iced over, that it is actually possible to ice skate on the roads here and there.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Incredible evening for temperatures yesterday. It was between 1 and 2 degrees until about 7pm, but then by midnight it was up to 7 degrees! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Seems to be warming up quickly everywhere. 16C due this afternoon and we've started mowing the grass, which is difficult as some areas are still very boggy. Checked our records and we started mowing last year on 31st January, so at the moment the season is 2 weeks late. According to the forecast temperatures will continue to creep up and the heating can perhaps go off tomorrow and we're back to wood fires in the evening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Been a strange start to the year so far. After my last post it did warm up, but turned cold again and the heating had to go back on, something that's new to us. The season remains 2 weeks late but, after 6 weeks with hardly any rain, it is at last raining, which should see the cracks in the soil closing. They are so wide in the chicken enclosure that they could easily get their toes caught in them. Last few days got up to 26C and very sunny, so really too hot to work outside in the afternoon. Rest of the week should be cooler with showers, so back to fires in the evening again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 We haven't had any rain for ages, in fact I can't remember when it last rained - not including a bit of snow. Unfortunately, the pipe connecting our water butts came apart, so the 4 full butts we had don't have much in them. We desperately need some rain, although I do love sunny days even if they are a bit chilly in the wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Hopefully we have some rain due tomorrow and Wednesday but doesn't look like much - certainly not enough to fill the water butt. Could do with one day of heavy rain then some sunshine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Looking back through my photo’s we’re 2 weeks behind last year but only 1 week behind 2019. Nearly out of water butt water here and nothing other than the odd shower in the forecast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 We had an inch of rain yesterday and overnight, so the water butts are full and the cracks in the soil have closed up. Now the weeds and grass will start growing so, we are going to be busy for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 I never seem to have the same Spring as the UK and after a series of poor, cool and wet Springs, this year is a cracker. After a very warm, sunny and dry March, we have had the 'typical' April, all showers and changeable, but mild. Hence everything in the garden is absolutely lovely and bursting with life. The hillsides are also remarkable, after the terrible forest fires of a few years ago. We always get purple heather and a bit of yellow broom in March/April, but this year the broom has gone mad, interspersed with gorse, with all the extra light and lack of competition I expect. It is quite life affirming. Aren't we lucky weather changes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 We now have water falling out of the sky - can't remember when that last happened. Just hope some makes it into the water butt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Has been raining all morning. Such dark and gloomy weather. Good for the plants, but quite a transition from the calm and sunny weather of past weeks. Red the cat is very bummed about it. Has been complaining to me that it rains. I really think he’s convinced it’s my fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Our cat refuses to go outside if its raining..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Daphne said: Our cat refuses to go outside if its raining..... He will go out eventually, since he does refuse outright to use a litter box. But he will complain loudly all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 It's that time of year again. Orange alert for thunderstorms this evening bringing high winds and hail. So most of the work today will be putting things away and covering the vegetable plot beds. The water butts have some capacity left. We bought a new pump from Lidl because the old submersible is just too slow. Their Parkside range of low budget tools is quite good value if you want something that you won't use that often and isn't a disaster if it breaks. This particular pump had a picture showing a 15mm outlet connection, but it turned out that the outlet connection wasn't an included part of the pump, so I feel somewhat mis-led. Managed to find something to fit though. Works well, but the suction pipe floats, so some weight had to be added. We  can now pump from the water butts via a 15mm pipe to a spray gun if necessary and it moves rainwater to the veggie plot barrels about 10x faster than the previous pump, even over a distance of 80 metres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 We managed to buy the fittings for the pump and increased the outlet to 19mm to further increase the flow rate, with another fitting of 15mm if we pump from a different location. More thunderstorms. Seems to get worse every year. Spent all day yesterday clearing up and was told today of a couple not far from us who have only had the house 9 months and have twice had the garden wrecked by hailstones. This time they were so big and jagged shaped they have destroyed their new car as well. Front and rear screens smashed and huge dents in all the body panels. Their other car was under a shelter and the hail stones went right through it. Garden levelled and 150 roof tiles smashed. So now it's raining heavily and we've just finished watering the veg! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Glorious weather for that last few days, 17C, no wind and sunny. So mild that record temperatures have been set all over the Country. We've been pruning fruit trees because there are no frosts. But all that changes tonight, with rain and a light frost tomorrow morning then 6C in the day and -3C or less at night. So fleece on the Aloe Vera's and the bantams go into a heated cage in the garage. As the weather lady said "well, it is Winter"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Yes, I know it was a record high in UK for NYEve, its just a shame the mild weather came with non-stop low leaden skies! On NYDay the hottest place in Portugal was 26 degrees, so I think we've all had the good weather. Yesterday was also warm and sunny, but we have the wind and rain already, so back to normal now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 In Cornwall today was probably the coldest feeling day of the winter so far. The thermometer didn’t really show it but so windy and with frequent windy, sleety hail showers. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Sunshine at last in Fleet after almost the entire Christmas holidays in the gloom and wet. So beautiful to see some sun but just typical that the temperatures drop ready for going back into a freezing cold class room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Waiting for Eunice to visit. Hope chickens dont blow away!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Having chickens blow away isn’t unthinkable here right now. It’s really howling outside and the neighbours fence has come down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
