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Dear Jenny, have you tried doing a rain dance, yours could go, you put your left leg in, your left leg out, in out in out........

Just enough light drizzle to lay the dust.

Dug some leeks for tea, half the plot came up with the first and the fork rebounded on the second, twice, before it would go in.

oldherbaceous wrote:Dear Jenny, have you tried doing a rain dance, yours could go, you put your left leg in, your left leg out, in out in out........

I would, but I got arrested last time.

Dear Jenny, you are aloud to do the Hokey Cokey with your clothes ON you know.

NOW you tell me!

Threw caution to the wind, did the dance and now - RAIN! Blessed rain!

Dear Jenny, i just knew you could do it.
Maybe that is whats it's all about.

Think we're going to have another year of rain & water shortage in this part of the world. Even though last year's hose pipe ban has been lifted, I've already got my bucket outside my kitchen door to collect my grey kitchen water. The level in our four water butts (two frontgarden, two back garden) is already going down.

Three days on from my last posting and we just had 3mm of rain which the strong sunshine and northerly wind today have dried up again and no rain forecast (on Metcheck) for us all next week. Luckily we now have water on the allotment, albeit a fair distance to carry, but it should enable us to do some sowing this weekend at least.

There's one consolation though: I washed a pile of my adult grandson's jeans, sweaters etc this morning and they dried a treat in the wind!

I heard on the radio we're on track to having had the warmest April in 300 years!
Any global warming doubters out there?

Jenny Green wrote:I heard on the radio we're on track to having had the warmest April in 300 years!
Any global warming doubters out there?

Well, yes, that's what we've had. And no rain clouds on the horizon here - though maybe a few chilly nights. My hens think the potato beds are one giant dust bath, created especially for them.

Alan

I have to say, Jenny's rain dance appears to have worked with unbelievable efficiency, i wonder if she knows one to stop it.

Too right OH....Its the best bit of rain I have seen for a couple of months.

I even managed to get a lot of stuff planted out this morning before it started...good timing

Hi Jenny,
I have no doubt that global warming is occurring I just think that the measures being taken are a total waste of the resources that we have and that the goverments have picked on the wrong thing to control.(CO2) I feel that they have not got a cats chance in hell of really controlling it. The reason being that there are too many natural sources of it.
Too many nobodies have climbed in on the act. A person gave a talk to my smallholders group and the cheeky bugger charged £90.00. for a 55 minutes talk.
He had to be away sharply because he had another talk to give 15 miles away.
All he could say was "I am so in demand" but deigned to answer no more than 3 questions and he was off!
He left us to argue for the rest of the evening!!
JB.

Weeds are growing nicely here: we have had about 20mm of rain in past 3 days... (youngest son was walking in Peak District!:_)

(New) Raspberry canes which were stunted last year due to the summer drought are growing like mad with thick stems... fields are green,May blossom makes the hedges white..
MUCH nicer than Wales imo:-))