Autumn bits and bobs

[oldherbaceous]

Our local Sheperdess dropped me in a large box of mushrooms she had picked yestetday, i think that must be the latest i have ever known them.

[PLUMPUDDING]

There are lots of interesting toadstools popping up in the garden - some look rather like oyster mushrooms, but I'm not sure, so won't be trying them. My mushroom log is about the only place there is nothing growing though.

The ivy flowers are attracting a spectacular number of hover flies, wasps and even a couple of red admiral butterflies which is quite surprising at this time of year.

[glallotments]

I have these growing in my garden - visitors to my blog seem to agree that they look like shaggy parasol mushrooms which are supposedly edible but I'd never risk it!

[Parsons Jack]

A touch of frost here this morning, but it was soon gone and it is a glorious sunny day now

[Compo]

I reckon it got to about 15c here today, spent most of the day on the plot cutting back raspberries, spreading manure, tidying up the stored onions.....oh and sowing some broad beans in pots (the mice always get them if I sow them direct. I don't reckon we will get many days like this over the winter so felt it best to get out there for as long as I could.

Glad your all ok on here, but it does seem a bit quieter as said in a previous post....

I will have to get going on here again

CoMpO

[oldherbaceous]

Very blustery here this morning, i wonder if it has blown the leaves on or off the drive, for work tomorrow.

[alan refail]

Wind's dropped here for now, but looks like a windy old few days to come

[Geoff]

Met Office stats:

Very wet and windy weather affects northern UK.

Maximum hourly gusts by 0800 Sunday: 89mph Fair Isle; 82mph Wick Airport, Highland; 80mph Kirkwall, Orkney;; 75mph Loftus, N Yorks; 75mph High Bradfield, S Yorks; 72mph Boulmer, Northumberland; 72mph Lerwick, Shetland; 71mph Stornoway, Western Isles; 70mph Blackford Hill, Edinburgh and 68mph Keswick, Cumbria. Saturday's highest 24-hour rainfall totals in northwestern Scotland: 101.8mm Cassley; 90.2mm Kinlochewe and 87.8mm Cluanie Inn. Issued at 0829 on Sun 27 Nov 2011.

My weather station has given up - I'll have to investigate but still pretty breezy.

[PLUMPUDDING]

Interesting wind info Geoff, High Bradfield is about a 10 minute drive from our house. We're more sheltered, but it has been very wild in the night and I've kept hearing bangs and crashes outside, but haven't found any damage in the garden this morning, just a few things not in their usual places.

Don't know about anyone else, but I find the roar of the wind in the trees very unsettling. It sounds extremely powerful.

[Geoff]

Wind's unpleasant wherever it is.

[Elaine]

It was blowing a right hoolie last night here. I ended up going out in the garden at 2am, to retrieve a seed tray which was being batted around the patio and driving me daft. It's still very windy but has dropped a little.

I hate high winds...makes me feel really irritable and unsettled.

[Nature's Babe]

Sunny here today, red admirals here too and lots of caterpillars crawling about still, also fungi still popping up, I welcome them, it's the soil's / earths internet, for each little fruitlet lots more underground working in symbiosis to nourish my plants.

[donedigging]

Wind, very much controlled here today

Beautiful blue sky and sunshine

[Parsons Jack]

One short shower this morning, otherwise it has been a glorious day. Lots of wasps about still

[alan refail]

Looks like strong wind for all of us over the coming days. Calmer here just for now, but a coaster sank off the coast here over the weekend with most of the crew drowned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15909625