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Isn't it marvellous? All the lovely weather we have been having and crying out for rain. Today, my husband has a day off and is making a fence in our back garden to re-place the one which has fallen down. So... what's happening? It has just started thundering and lightening and absolutely hissing down. >sigh< You can't win can you!! There is much dark mutterings coming from my husband.........

Yeah right.....as well as the thunderstorm, tipping rain, we now have hailstones the size of garden peas!! What next? Oh..just as I typed that,we had the loudest clap of thunder which has set off all the car alarms in the street!!! The hail has stopped and it's back to enormous drops of rain again. Nice one. Is someone extracting the urine in Hull or what?? Cheers!

weve got some heavy showers here in somerset as well, ive left a clients lawn half cut and hung the boiler suit up to drip.

It's very pleasant here, lovely sunshine and just enough breeze to make it enjoyable to sit with ones feet up.

Sorry about the weather for the fencing project Elaine.

After the hot spell the weather here turned very "Welsh" on Friday and Saturday mornings - but fine enough to get something done in the afternoons. Yesterday was a fine morning for mucking out all the poultry houses it had been far to hot to contemplate. Heavy showers this morning, hot sun this afternoon. You win some you lose some

We've had four very heavy rain showers this evening here, enough to batten down the hatches.

If it carries on over-night, the new pool will overflow

Dear Donedigging, that will be your new olympic sized pool will it.

Elaine. Could you not supply wet gear for the other half.

We erected our pop-up gazebo on our patio for last week's heatwave and right now the hailstorms are pounding down on it. Until a few minutes ago I was sitting underneath it thoroughly enjoying the sound of rain pelting down on the canvas. Reminded me nostalgically of my camping days as a Girl Guide when it seemed to rain endlessly and everybody would scream at you, whenever you stood up, "for Heavens Sake don't touch the canvas!". In those days water proofing wasn't very effective and every time you touched the canvas a stream of water would pour in right onto your sleeping bag!

Hello every one! Glad it wasn't just us caught out with the weather then! The thunderstorm was brilliant (I love them) and the lightening spectacular. My husband kept dashing out to do a bit more to the fence in between the "showers" and did manage to finish it eventually with lots of what I can only describe as, Anglo Saxon expressions! When he had finished, the sun came out!
Those hailstones were amazing! They were bouncing a foot in the air when they hit the patio! I was a bit bothered that the rain and hail would knock all the flowers off my runner beans so we popped to the allotment to check. All was well though, only a few had come off. Here's to the good old British summer!! Cheers!

Elaine wrote:Is someone extracting the urine in Hull or what?? Cheers!

Bransholme will be back on the national news again as quickly as you can say "Ben Brown".

Sorry Felix....must be a bit thick tonight....I don't get it. Who is Ben Brown and what is his connection with Bransholme?

Ben Brown's a reporter, and occasional newsreader, on the BBC News. He covered the Bransholme floods in 2007.

You know Ben Brown, Elaine, the cute one who looks his best in a flak jacket in Afganistan or somewhere else dangerous (but not Bransholme).

Some of these foreign correspondentsn just don't look right reading the news in a studio. I always think Jeremy Bowen looks particularly out of place (and a bit bored) unless he's in a war zone.