Weather.... late 2009

[angie]

Thanks Maggi

You are right Maggi , little rays of sunshine are exactly what they are , that's brightened my day, thanks to everyone for posting these gorgeous pictures. 

Angie

[Roma]

Just for you Angie, not sun but blue sky last Wednesday, so rare recently I had to photograph it -  Followed by my cold frame and my brother's garden this morning.  The clay pot at the back is a 7 inch one.  You can see a tidemark on the wall where the maximum height of the water was.  My bulbs are well and truly watered!! 

[angie]

Hi Roma
Thanks for the blue skies, 8)I ordered some rare bulbs today its a pity I couldn't order a sun as well.  Hope all your plants will be okay in the coldframes.
Thanks Roma.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

Not a good sight, Roma. How are pony fields?

[Roma]

Bulbs should be OK, Angie.  This has happened before and the water goes down quite fast.  There is hardly any water at the other end but it is on a slope so it gets deeper towards the bulbs. 

Maggie, the ponies are learning to swim.  No it isn't that bad but is very soggy and every dip in the ground is full of water. A small field in the corner where the gas pipe went through had not been grazed all summer and had long grass dying back ,lots of broom and small gorse bushes (they ate them right down last year).  I started putting them there for about one to two hours a couple of weeks ago and have gradually increased till they are on there full time now.  It is fine to have somewhere they can graze without being up to their knees in mud all the time.
Maybe this should be in the Wildlife thread. Hamish rolling and Hamish getting up.  A few weeks ago before the rain.   

[Maggi Young]

A fat happy pony in the sunshine, what could be nicer ? Hamish has missed a career as a Thelwell model, hasn't he?

[angie]

Roma Hamish is lovely, looks as if he was enjoying the sun on his back, then next time l am out that way I will look out for Hamish, it will be nice to say hi to him.
Angie

[Paul T]

Roma,

Hamish is adorable!!    Definitely destined for a career in modelling.

To all you lot in Scotland, I hope you aren't too badly flooded.  Reports on our news here this morning that areas of England and Scotland with severe flooding due to torrential rains over the weekend.  Hopefully all affected are OK and the damage isn't too bad.  I can see from the pics that Roma's bulb frame has taken a hit, but I hope that things improve for you all.  

Here, we've had little bits of rain which have made things a little easier here, but we could do with a bit of minor flooding to be honest to put some more water into our dams.  It isn't as bad now as it was a few months ago, but we need to get everything refilled, particularly the water table underground.  Still way too dry.  

It just isn't fair is it..... the rain should be shared around more equally between the people who need it.  

[Maggi Young]

Paul, there has been nasty flooding in some places, especially Stonehaven, 15 miles south of Aberdeen and Huntly, about 45 miles north..... waist high water swirling about the place.... horrible as you might imagine for those folks affected.
It is at times like these that I am truly grateful for living at the top of a hill. This area has lots of watery connections.... Springfield, Springbank in local names gives a clue.....there are places nearby here where water is bubbling out of garden walls where the ground level changes and down the hill it is springin up at the edge of the road... all from the natural springs..... so ironic when you are desperate for the wet stuff.

[angie]

Hi Paul

I agree Paul, we have had our fair share of rain and I for one wouldn't mind sharing it with you or anyone else that would like it  . I haven't had any damage here as we are high up but the lady at the bottom of road was having her lovely cottage garden and home pumped out by our fire service this morning, my heart sank for her when I passed her door .
Never mind everyones postings and pictures keeps us smiling here in Scotland.
Angie

[David Shaw]

Glad to hear that you in the east got away without too much trouble. We were thinking of you all. In west Moray we missed the worst of the weather and there was just minor flooding of fields. A nice looking morning today.

[Lesley Cox]

Weather is no longer seasonal by which I mean that we have have flooding in spring or summer (or autumn for you in the north at present), rather than in winter when one might expect it. Drought here is now often from winter through spring and summer with some rain in autumn if we're lucky. Eqinoxial winds were the norm for us with hot, gale force nor'westers in March and September but they are just starting here today, and the forecast says the gales will be strong enough in Otago and Canterbury to fell tree and take roofs off. Not the same as when I was a girl.

[Anthony Darby]

Just about 5^oCelsius as I took Heidi for her evening walk. I checked on my return, as just before I'd left the house a gritter lorry had driven past! Certainly it was cooler than last week, but surely not that cold? A hedgehog on the Hydro lawn seemed to agree!

[Roma]

Quite cold outside tonight.  The grass feels a bit crisp in places.  Still it's better than all the rain we've been having.  I've just been to check on the ponies now the fireworks have stopped for the night.  There was a big display at Thainstone Agricultural Centre less than two miles away in one direction and several smaller ones in all other directions at varying distances.  I don't know how stressed the ponies get but they seem ok now.
 I notice the Forum is still on British Summer Time.  Get's confusing when I see someone has posted a message an hour ahead of where my computer is.

[Maggi Young]

I notice the Forum is still on British Summer Time.  Get's confusing when I see someone has posted a message an hour ahead of where my computer is.

Roma, we discussed this point the other weekend when the clocks changed... it seems we all have to set the forum clock individually to our own time zone in our profile page.....I have done yours for you now.