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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: rispainfarm on August 25, 2012, 01:01:25 pm
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Heavy Showers Today, Drier Sunday, Rain Returns Monday - Saturday 10:06
Heavy and thundery showers for many areas today. Drier and sunnier on Sunday. Wind and rain arriving on Monday.
... visit netweather to read the story in full.
Will this rain never end, I was hoping for an indian summer, some hope. Every morning I wake up and it is raining or it seems that way.
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Tell me about it !
I am so sick of the rain words fail me .
I am turning into man from Atlantis , have now got webbed toes and am starting to grow gills !
The main drawback with becoming man from Atlantis is , i can't swim doh ! Glug glug glug !
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its still lashing it down here in kernow too.
it better stop tomorrow, we're off camping. better water proof the tent again i think.
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And you know the bugbear, there is buggar all we can do about it. >:( :(
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Will this rain never end, I was hoping for an indian summer, some hope.
be careful what you wish for - summer is when the monsoon hits india ;D ;D
Looking forward to tomorrow - I just wonder if believing the forecast is setting us up for disappointment... ::)
marcus
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;D
I have been looking at Forecast.co.uk I think it is, and that gives you hour by hour if you press the detailed buttong. Yesterday according to it, we would have rain in the morning and sun in the afternoon, guess what, we had sun in the morning and rain in the afternoon, so I think now, just look out the window and don't plan anything that requires sun.
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Of course I didn't check the weather forecast BEFORE I took one of the chicken sheds to pieces to blast the redmite >:( I've been soaked out there trying to put the thing back together
Just a couple of dry days would be nice - pleeeeeease
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Well me, OH and kids were all at the Westruther Sheep Show this morning (which is about a small a show as you can get), tripple salco-ed around in the mud for an hour looking at sheep, ate a cheeseburger in the rain and came home. Still nice though!
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It's just been a completely miserable summer. Poor sheep have really suffered with their feet and we still have a field of grass standing - think we can write the hay off - first year in the 16yrs I've known this place *sigh*
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Us too. Got 40 small bales off, baler broke, got neighbour in and another 12 round bales (6 of which we cant get in the barn as the arch is too low to stack them) and the rest is just sitting there on the stalk....:-(((
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It's just been a completely miserable summer.
It has hasn't it and I don't know about others but I am heading into the winter just feeling so desparate to have a few days of sun where I can relax and go about outside work without taking a hour to dress up in waterproofs
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Yep , sick of getting soaked everyday . I don't wear waterproofs , can't afford them for one thing , plus walking 6 miles quite fast i get too hot all wrapped up . So just an old wax cotton coat or the summer weight cammo jacket .
I look like a boiling kettle when i stop walking , steam everywhere !
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I'm starting to get so fed up of people complaining about the weather (wait ;) ) that dont have livestock or crops out in it. All they have to do is put a jacket on or be inside. Our livelyhood depends on it. A couple of weeks of settled weather.....it would be enough :-\
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I am heading into the winter just feeling so desparate to have a few days of sun where I can relax and go about outside work
I definitely feel like that :-\ The goat byre has flooded again today and is totally disgusting in there again - I am ashamed. I still haven't cut my fields (topper in for repairs, but doesn't look like I'm going to use next week) :gloomy: :gloomy: :gloomy:
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on the positive side tho' i have saved hours of time normally spent watering the allotment :innocent:
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I don't know oneedyhen why shouldn't even people without livestock or crops moan, they are wanting a summer in which to enjoy the sun as much as any smallholder. Having livestock does make things more difficult but everyone wants a nice summer even if it is to light the barbie
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Important to take high doses of vit D3, those of us who've had hardly any sun. Good for both immune system and mood.
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My local garden centre owner said he's sold a lot of slug pellets this year. Wonder why?
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You have reminded me jaykay, might just do that, coz my mood is not great
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I could hear :-* and I know that one well :hug:
D3 all year and 5-HTP during the winter, is what keeps me sane (ish ;))
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No money for vit D , so have to hope i get enough when the sun does shine !
Lack of summer does bring the mood down though . Have to get some vit D seeds and grow it !
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No money for vit D , so have to hope i get enough when the sun does shine !
Lack of summer does bring the mood down though . Have to get some vit D seeds and grow it !
:roflanim: we could make a fortune rusty
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Lol , yes if they grew !
I sowed 10 x 15' rows of seeds ' the birds ate all the seedlings !
Sowed them again , monsoon rain washed them away !
Was then just going to transplant seedlings as they came up . Didn't account for the barbarian hoards of slugs waiting for din dins !
That wiped out about £40 of seed all told .
But i do have plenty of leeks ! lol .
On the bright side , i should be ready for next year !
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Forecast here isn't good they are talking about cancelling the ferry out of Portsmouth .... now that is unheard off, they cancel the Vomit Comet ( hydrofoil) for a puff of wind but never the ferry especially holiday time.
All the campsites here are full i feel really sorry for people in tents and they are still going ahead with the carnival for Gods sake's it will be a wash out!!
Trouble here is the top 6 inches or so of soil is now slimy and wet so we just slide about all over the place :gloomy:
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halfway through a thunderstorm this afternoon our roof let us down ::) . Only a few little holes but enough to drench the landing, kids room and then inturn it dripped through the floor into the downstairs ceilings.
16 individual leaks the children counted in total as they put buckets and towels down.
rang 3 'emergency roofers' - this was hours ago, still waiting for a return phonecall. have tried calling them all back several times - answerphones. rains stopped now for a bit but the buckets are still collecting, we've tipped litres and litres of water down the sinks and tomorrow I'm washing towels. rain due about 1am apparently - I'll be sat in bed like this :raining: [size=78%] [/size]
really fed up with 'summer' 2012!!
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Oh no Plums - what a pain a leaking roof is :-* Can someone get a tarp over the worst bit?
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Oh Plkums, poor you. Hope you get it sorted soon. :hug:
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no ladder high enough here but will have to do something tomorrow. Maybe one of these 'emergency' people will call back by then :-\
wallpaper is hanging off (hated it anyway) and the carpets are now stinking. oh the joy! could be worse, so I'm not moaning really :)
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never mind plums NFU will sort it out :farmer:
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THAT is what has caused this mess, Robert!! Me saying to you "oh I've never had to make a claim...." when was that ?! yesterday?! :gloomy: :raining: :&>
Turns out we do have a long ladder. Husband will be climbing up it tomorrow with a bin liner and gaffa tape :-J oh and of course, it would be a bank holiday weekend wouldn't it?!
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That's the same law that caused us to have a burst pipe on Christmas Day.
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we also set fire to a quorn fillet in the microwave this evening. One way or another we are going to be making a claim soon ::)