Hertfordshire not having such a service my local paper referenced the rather good Essex Weather Centre, I'm under a mile from the border and our town has some random little bits tacked on across the border.
Anyway the word is it is now 46 days without any rain whatsoever.

Torrential rain earlier today for about an hour, we were trapped coat & brolly less, until it stopped.

Only trouble is, we were in Bristol for daughters graduation ceremony and not a drop of rain at home.

Added to my heat load today by preparing fresh ground cover material, after cutting the planting holes I ran round the cut edge, and the ends where it was cut from the roll, with a mini-blowtorch. Hopefully the will prevent the unravelling I had with the existing bits. Wrang my T-shirt out before pu...

Dry as bone here, but some interesting birds seen both at home and at work.
There was a Greater Blue Capped Eagle with an Orange Headed Booby and three Ospreys were trailing the Booby after the Eagle went to roost.
They circled work numerous times, amazing birds.

Shallot Man wrote:Yep ! should have said bind weed. I put it down to senile decay.

Why?
The Royal Horticultural Society lists "Bellbind" as the sole alternative English name for it, see https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=241

On the one that logs you in, change it to something new.

Go into and tidied the greenhouse, it had been used as a lumber store for the shed extension, sowed a dozen trays of mixed sizes, weeded the border and then soaked it. An aqualegia had popped up on one edge so left it to bloom. Bird netting and compost were flavour of the day at the allotment shop t...

Mine are just emerging from the ground. Unlike the ****ing bindweed, which has rampaged in several parts of my raspberry patch. One of my plotholders discovered allium leaf miner in her onions this week and it has been identified on several other plots, now feeling slightly better about being so far...

Primrose, they're nearly three foot high and the flower are the size of a breakfast teacup.

Self seeded poppies allowed to grow on one of my plots.

Must be good weather at Old Herbaceous 's place as he is fairly quiet for him.
Out trying to keep up with the growing grass no doubt.

Woo I'm ahead on something!

Today's was my third this year.

Finally planted my potatoes today, five 30' rows, latest ever.

But making the best of failures, I failed to dig a row of Charlotte last year and I may get a few feeds from the sturdy looking row of ready earthed volunteers.