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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: mab on August 17, 2012, 08:09:03 pm
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Rant warning!
What possessed me to move to the hills in SW Wales? I swear that every weather front funnels up the Carmarthen valley to where I live an dumps rain for days at a time.
Since April I've had 4 trees fall over - all four have landed on a good bit of stock fence :rant: the last (a 50' Ash tree) fell yesterday and took out about 30' of fence. I wouldn't mind having the firewood but I'm still waiting for a good break in the weather so I can put the flue for the woodburner through the roof without getting the house even wetter.
Can we have a bit of dry weather? Pleeeeease!!
m
:raining: (as usual ) :gloomy:
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We have relatives up that way - Blackwood. When they come to us (Warwickshire) its like the French Riviera :sunshine:
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:fc: mab, it can't rain forever :gloomy: good luck with your fencing!
and your flue fitting..still lots of firewood :thumbsup:
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Oh Mab! Wet, windy, Wales our family always said (from Abergavenny orginally) :raining: . Much the same here on the South Coast - the grass never stops growing but our hay crop is ruined. :gloomy: . Just think of all that lovely Ash firewood. :thumbsup:
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Hum.. well I keep waiting for the better weather and tinkering away at the planned pico-hydro project when finances allow (don't get me started on that red-tape rant ::) ).
right now I'd just like to be able to dry things a bit (house, car, ground, washing, dog...)
:raining:
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lol , you sort of get used to it ! Been here 35 years now , love it to bits , but the rain is a pain in the arse !
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Cumbria much the same, my yard and goat byre flooded again :gloomy: Don't know how convinced I am that it can't rain forever :raining:
Pleeeaaaase could I have significantly less rain and no midges :gloomy:
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Mab, look on the bright side. At least we don't have the midges :relief:
Sally
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Well the weather forecast predicted that today would be the hottest day of the year :sunshine: .
Ha! :roflanim: :roflanim:
The fog is so thick here that I can only see about 100ft down the garden. I went into the field, called the ewes and 20 beautiful figures trotted out of the mist to greet me (yeah, I know, it's only for food :yum: ). Sat in the field shelter and had a little chat with the friendly ones. By the time I came back indoors I was soaked; it is like a rain forest in the garden. The slugs are the size of mice!! :o . But in a strange way I sort of like it ??? - it is so peaceful. Just sorry for the people on holiday (??what is a holiday??)
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At least we don't have the midges
They control my life between May and September. Can't open windows, can't sit out, can't 'pop out', always have to don a midge jacket and repellent. Bloody things :rant:
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Not to many midges up here - the strong gusty winds tend to blow them towards Yorkshire1 :roflanim:
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Why can't clouds run out of rain :) Ever since we moved up to scotland, every summer has been a wash out. Its so bad that when it is a hot and dry for more than two days everyone gets excited and talks about having a good summer, to the scottish, well around here anyway, two dry days constitutes a summer lol
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Why can't clouds run out of rain :) Ever since we moved up to scotland, every summer has been a wash out. Its so bad that when it is a hot and dry for more than two days everyone gets excited and talks about having a good summer, to the scottish, well around here anyway, two dry days constitutes a summer lol
2 dry days together would be nice :-)
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you all don't know when you are well off :farmer:
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Heres the sun :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: now enjoy everyone as its likely to be the only sun you will see for a while maybe
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We had sun :sunshine: this afternoon and I took the dog for a nice walk. I think the forecast for us tomorrow is back to rain though :raining: :gloomy: :rant:
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:excited: Yeaaaahhhh ...... sunshine here too. Felt a bit like summer.
Just given Alfie :dog: a bath on the lawn ..... he thought it was fun to dig in the marshy place ::)
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tomorrow here in D&G is :sunshine: but next week it will be partly :sunshine: and :gloomy: and then at the end of the week it will be :raining:
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Mab, look on the bright side. At least we don't have the midges :relief:
Sally
Well there are a few - although they're a minor irritation - not like the evil Scottish ones.
The rain actually stopped around 1 pm today and a big yellow thing appeared in the sky :excited: . Forecast: more rain tomorrow (and all the following days) :gloomy:
Still, I managed to dry out all four wet & smelly dog towels, the house and the back of the car :) .
Desperately trying not to overfeed Rosie (the Shetland pony) - I've been trying to move her 'patch' of grass slow enough that she doesn't get too much to eat, but fast enough to stop the ground poaching - Not very successfully ::) .
marcus
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There has to be a limit to how much rain clouds can hold. It's just there doesn't seem to be a limit to how many cloud there are.
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Same here in west mids,none stop rain :raining:
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Really weird rain in Worcestershire today. on the scale of wetness 0-10 its an 11. I don't like it. We have floody patches, more mud than glasto and 4 very miserable children. More miserable now because the car won't start so we are stuck home. :raining:
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Plums, our rain is the same. Thunder and lightening too. :gloomy:
Is it ever going to end?
Sally
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Do you remember that awful Kevin Costner film, Waterworld? Maybe this is it.... :raining:
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Massive black clouds , monsoon rain , thunder all morning , now , blue skies and sunshine , wtf ?
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Send me some sunshine please. Already had one change of clothes while feeding the animals, and looks like another set will be needed any time soon. So fed up of this torrential rain - fields are like rivers, and animals are all fed up. Poor foal has been here 12 weeks and you can count on your hand how many decent days he has had. Suppose he will think rain is the norm!!!!
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Well it's been torrential :raining: as usual, but it's looking like in might be drying up for a few days :excited: - at least for us down here...
everybody keep your :fc: please.
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:fc: but brollie at the ready.. :raining: ;D
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Yesterday was lovely here in Shropshire, but today we are back to :gloomy: :gloomy: :gloomy: :raining: although it did brighten up briefly just before it got dark.