Weather.... late 2009

[Maggi Young]

Here we are on the last day of October, Halloween ..... and thankfully, the rain has stayed off for all the little guisers out this evening of magic and mystery......our house was visited by any number of fairies and skeletons, wizards and witches in training and there is now a lot less chocolate and fruit in the place than a few hours ago.  Given the amount of rain we have had lately, I would have thought the traditional evening of guising would have been a complete washout.
I was so pleased that the weather held that I nipped out myself to enjoy the early evening air,

....that was when the unfortunate accident happened......



Happy Halloween!

[mark smyth]

only one set of kids calling at the door this year.

[Anthony Darby]

We had a fair few; mostly telling jokes, but one mini-choir and one violinist! Thank goodness the days of spending hours hollowing out a turnip are gone! Pumpkins are so easy!

[Lesley Cox]

Mercifully, none at all arrived here. We wouldn't have minded as the local kids are all known to us, about 20 families in a smallish country area. I'd laid in bananas, apples and Moro bars especially. I'll have to eat them, now. Dammit.
It was a lovely evening too, mild and balmy.

[Maggi Young]

All the Mums will be thankful that halloween was last night and not tonight..... rain is really heavy and fierce wind blowing too.... if out tonight the cutest two year old "pumpkin" who came yesterday and sang us "Bob the Builder" would have been blown away! The rain has been ghastly today.... if I wanted to live in a climate like this I would move to the west!

[Michael J Campbell]

if I wanted to live in a climate like this I would move to the west! Tongue

Maggi,I live in the west in a climate like that.
We have a saying here,it will be a dry day if it doesn't rain between the showers.

[Maggi Young]

I know, Michael... and I sympathise! You do have it rather milder than us , though  ::)I don't know how you can thole all this flippin' water falling from the sky?

[Michael J Campbell]

Evolution Maggi, we are starting to grow web feet.

[Michael J Campbell]

The sad part is that they are going to start charging for water. Did you ever hear the like of it, we have trouble keeping it out of the house,from coming under the door or running down the walls,and they want to charge us for it.

[Maggi Young]

The sad part is that they are going to start charging for water. Did you ever hear the like of it, we have trouble keeping it out of the house,from coming under the door or running down the walls,and they want to charge us for it.

That is what they call adding insult to injury , Michael. Shameful!

[mark smyth]

I saw on TV that Aberdeenshire have 200% of the average rain fall in October. We had lashing rain all day

[Maggi Young]

Hmmph! Only 200%.... trust me ... it feels like much much more

[Anthony Darby]

That would normally be two thimbles full?

[angie]

Hi
No guisers here , I think everyone has been washed away, so like Lesley l had to dispose of the CHOCOLATE myself ::)our road up to our house has turned into a river, here's a picture of the golf driving range at the bottom of our road last week, and what you can't see there were sad golfers hitting their balls in the water ( I think one of them was my husband ) cant understand their logic. Can someone post a picture of a Sun just that I can remember what it looks like.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

 Angie, I don't think anyone can remember far enough back to think what the sun looked like, but there are sunny-looking flowers here.... it's close!! http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4352.0 

Also, I recommend the Crocus pages... they are full of little rays of crocus sunshine!
Gladdens the heart!!