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Very pleased to say that the weather people got it sooooo wrong for us. Has been sunny and warm all weekend with only 2 minor showers (which were hardly noticeable

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Nearly got away with a dry day...but then we got 12mm in a storm...

Clive.

Fine 'til lunchtime and then we have recorded another 21mm at home here.

Clive.

Wet yesterday - wet today - a rare fine sunny day tomorrow - then rain for the forecastable future

Seems dark too. Could be that I have knocked out some failed double glazing and boarded up the windows. Think the new units will stay in the garage today. As you say, tomorrow looks possible but getting the varnish dry afterwards looks tricky.

Been raining all night, got up to fog, but most of it seems to have lifted now. Daughter said that autumn is here . told her it's too early for autumn. Ahh well usual bank holiday weather

Yesterday was nice, couple of spit spit spit showers passed through, but I harvested the onions and dug one row of spuds.
Weeded around four rod, 1 empty, 1 was onions, 1 peas & sweetcorn, 1 caged brassicas.

Last night around 11pm the rain arrived, hard enough to cut the sky tv signal.

This morning everything is wet, puddles in the road and the sky looks set to deliver more.

Wind and rain here today. And it's coming your way.

Might pop down the road to Criccieth to see if I can take an identical photograph of a deserted, windswept promenade like this one I took on Easter Monday Bank Holiday.

alan refail wrote:Might pop down the road to Criccieth to see if I can take an identical photograph of a deserted, windswept promenade like this one I took on Easter Monday Bank Holiday.

Yep. Pretty much a repeat performance this morning

Enjoy tomorrow, folks, it's promising to be a better day! And the papers say September will be warm and dry .......

I'll get my waterproofs ready for September then.

It was a lovely day here yesterday and there were at least nine species of butterflies in the garden which was great to see.

Today is more like monsoon season - hardly able to see the end of the garden through the torrential rain. I hope they've managed to find somewhere dry to shelter.

Today was windy and dry to start...I got a mower out and started on the front lawns...then there was a meeting to attend after which it was pouring down. .....so I rescued the mower and headed for the shed..

Then the office phoned...young lady from the BBC is on her way.. ...so I needed to find my best wet weather radio broadcasting coat... The BBC has a brolly,..I don't...
Anyway along comes the lovely Leigh...and I get to have another go at Radio...
Actually it has just been aired and I dared to listen. ..to my great relief it sounded quite ok...except for an errant incorrect fact in the main presenter intro...
Even one of our hedgecutters had a run on the radio for sound effect...and for an article about Yew clippings I trimmed a bit of Beech.. I hope hedgetrimmer enthusiasts don't note the wrong engine note for Yew trimming...

Clive.

It has rained all day and the sun has only just decided to show its' smiley face.

Finally the runner beans are a decent length, the climbing french beans are fast becoming prolific and our only surviving Mangetout plant insists on producing 4 mangetout a day which is ideal as there are 4 of us , as it curls amongst the runners. I had one plant left by the time I had planted up my mangetout wigwam earlier in the year and so popped it in against the vacant pole on the runner bean wigwam. Didn't think it would come to much, what with sparrows and the like but it has done remarkably well - all the others perished for some reason and they were under netting!!!

My greenhouse grown cherry tomatoes are finally turning red but the spares which I planted into one of the outside beds aren't but there are tonnes of nice sized green ones just waiting to change. Tumbling toms and 100s and 1000s are also colouring up nicely.

Sadly I think it is highly unlikely that the sweetcorns which are only now beginning to form and show their silks, will ripen enough for corn on the cob and so I've taken the decision to harvest them as baby sweetcorn and we had the first ones with tonights tea and they were delicious

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Well, the forecasters WERE right - we had a lovely late summer's day yesterday and ambled round Harlow Carr, the RHS garden near us. All the late summer flowers like rudbeckia, echinacea, sedum and michaelmas daisies looked lovely in the sunshine and we even saw few small tortoiseshell, red admiral and peacock butterflies. The vegetable garden was interesting and there were even some decent-looking sweetcorn cobs, a vegetable which would never ripen on our allotment.

Back to normal this morning with heavy rain, but now it's cleared up again for a bit of evening sunshine.

It's our village show on Saturday and so far the signs are for decent weather until then, so we might just be ok for some good entries.