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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on April 25, 2012, 07:45:15 am
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How's the rainfall affecting everyone? We've had it quite solidly for a few days now and prior to that some heavy showers so the land is well saturated and each day as I drive the girls to school, I can see the Avon moving faster (and higher!)
Not a good time to live on a steep hill, having to milk goats on the very same hill and sliding about!
How are you all getting on? do you have any localised flooding yet?
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I'm a big old softy; everything was kicked out of their repsective stables/barn in March. Everything is now back in because they just looked miserable!!! No flooding as yet but the ground is saturated. Enough already!!!
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We really needed rain.
After the freeze and snow we had a slow melt followed by dry and hot days. I started planting and had to water seeds and plants and worked in a T shirt.
For about 3 weeks we have had rain or hail every day - we live on top of a hill so no flooding but standing water on the areas we drive or walk over.
For 3 weeks :
I have done no gardening..
I have stopped cutting logs in the woods.
We light a fire every morning and are using lots of logs.
the ducks won't hatch.
chicken are laying less eggs.
On the plus side I have done lots of overdue indoor jobs.
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Definitely did need it! perhaps getting a bit more than we really wanted now though ;) Am thinking of making use of it today and getting some patio cleaner on the paths that I slip on (algae, yuk) and giving it a good scrub while the rain rinses? Having said that we are already about 3 inches deep on our yard so maybe not ;)
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Rain again.
Ah - just thought of an indoor job ! We get 2 more pigs on Sunday so I can use some of the water from overflowing water stores to wash the stone floor in the pig house. ah - then I can drag the last bail of straw across the barn floor ( it's a raised floor that I need a ladder to get on to). The floor is earth on wood and has a few holes in it and rotten timbers so it should be a fun job.
Will I ever move away from the fire though?
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Although we have had a lot of rain recently we still need lots more, our local river kennet is still bone dry. Seen sheep sleeping in the river bed last week.
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standing water everywhere, apple and plum trees look very happy and the hugelkultur is as happy as larry! river Thames is starting to move quickly though!
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very wet here too, altho yesterday was ok, ive laid a load of grass seed and thats loving it as are my seedlings i put out on monday, i do like planting seedlings in the rain, cos you know theyll settle in well. the rain is definitely affecting my wallet tho, cos i havent been able to lime render which is a bummer.
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in warwickshire currently and the rain has driven us off our site we're working on so am not happy as in the long run every day i can't work here is another day i will have to be away from home :-(
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Here too,our little piece is:
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Goodness - that doesn't look nice :o
It's been OK in our little corner of Angus - sunny showers most days. Dry enough to harrow at the weekend and on Monday, but our soil is very freedraining (a mix of loamy sand and sandy loam :)) It was lovely yesterday and I spent it at my desk - today I'm having an outside day, and it's grey overcast and drizzly.
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I smiled for the first two weeks of rain, now with all the tanks full and the animals churning up the ground again it's becoming a bit of grind.
But it's the low temperatures that bother me. Round here a lot of bee colonies are starving because although the rape's out it's too cold for flying. And the grass isn't growing enough.
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Milking the goats is the hardest part for me as I'm juggling buckets full of (precious!) milk on a slope which is churned up and boggy, I also have to lead my maiden milker through a diddy gate past the nanny and her kid onto the stand, she's stronger than me LOL. I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over ;D
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I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over ;D
PHOTO PLEASE!!!!! ;D
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I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over ;D
PHOTO PLEASE!!!!! ;D
Ah well, you know I would but...I don't seem to have a camera handy ;D haha - I'm actually thinking of patenting it and selling them :thumbsup:
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Tesco Adult Nappies - every little helps....
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I was thinking during February and March, what if it doesn't rain at all. Life would be a sight more difficult than hose pipe bans :o :o Thank God though the rain came :)
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Ponies back inside at night as fields are so muddy. Bottom paddock flooded so out of use. Just as well I have plenty of hay :thumbsup:
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Its bad can see it right into may this weekend is looking wet and cold new lambs will suffer iff no let up .raind all day to day.
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All of our roads are flooded around here - Mrs Captain had to drive a 10 mile round trip to pick up Captain Jr. from school! Fun fun fun!!!
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The river Severn is very high. If Wales had as much rain as Shropshire did today, we may be having floods soon. We are at the top of the Ironbrdige Gorge so no flooding here but lots of standing water. I haven't cleaned the goat yard for three days now and it's getting pretty sludgy in there. At least the goat shed was cleaned out the other day and the barn stocked with hay (all six bales of it).