There is much dark mutterings coming from my husband.........Sods law!
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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.........
There is much dark mutterings coming from my husband.........Happy with my lot
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!
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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.
Sorry about the weather for the fencing project Elaine.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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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 
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Hi Elaine
Sounds as if you've had a right hum dinger of a storm there just when its most inconvenient
perhaps your husband's mutterings brought on the hailstones just for good measure
Richard there seems to be a right mixture of weather around the country as you have heavy rain right down in somerset - were you able to make the most of a chance for a well deserved cup of tea whilst you dried out
Sounds as if Oldherbaceous is feeling just a little smug being able to sit with feet up in the warm sun and why not, make the most of it
It's been trying to rain here and there have been some threateningly black skies and deep thunderous rumbles and so far only a short smatter of rain and it's so darned humid.
The shade and that darned whirling fan are tempting me to stay in doors, though I have a few things to do in the garden hmmm
Storm on its way - gone black again and one of my dogs is shaking nervously
cheerio for now then
Sounds as if you've had a right hum dinger of a storm there just when its most inconvenient
perhaps your husband's mutterings brought on the hailstones just for good measure Richard there seems to be a right mixture of weather around the country as you have heavy rain right down in somerset - were you able to make the most of a chance for a well deserved cup of tea whilst you dried out
Sounds as if Oldherbaceous is feeling just a little smug being able to sit with feet up in the warm sun and why not, make the most of it
It's been trying to rain here and there have been some threateningly black skies and deep thunderous rumbles and so far only a short smatter of rain and it's so darned humid.
The shade and that darned whirling fan are tempting me to stay in doors, though I have a few things to do in the garden hmmm
Storm on its way - gone black again and one of my dogs is shaking nervously
cheerio for now then
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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
If it carries on over-night, the new pool will overflow
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Dear Donedigging, that will be your new olympic sized pool will it.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Elaine. Could you not supply wet gear for the other half.
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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!
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!Happy with my lot
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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".
Allotment, but little achieved.
Who is Ben Brown and what is his connection with Bransholme? 
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Ben Brown's a reporter, and occasional newsreader, on the BBC News. He covered the Bransholme floods in 2007.
Allotment, but little achieved.
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.
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.