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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sabrina on November 12, 2015, 02:23:56 pm
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Due to the first storm of winter due I got up early and cracked on with the outside chores. Stables were mucked out and ready to take in the ponies before i even had breakfast. Put on a big pan of leek and potato soup to cook and left bread proving before starting on inside jobs. The wind started getting up just after mid-day and the sky got dark so ponies inside, no point in me getting soaked if i don't have to. Chickens were all in when I went round, not daft. They must know what's coming. At least if the power goes off tonight we have fresh bread and soup that I can warm up on the gas camping stove.
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the day here started off really nice, I thought oh great now I can get the fencing sorted. I milked earlier than usual so that i could spend the rest of the day fencing..... However after milking the weather turned its tables and bucketed it down. Now am indoors waiting for it to calm down, just being thankful that i have managed to put the ram in with his ewes a few days ago :relief:
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I've even made sure all the gadgets are fully charged because we're bound to get a power cut.
Thinking of everyone in the North and West who look as if they will catch it worst :cold:
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Sunny start to the day here, too. Now grey, windy and drizzling. .Living on a hilltop we're permanently battened down for gales and had some far-too-large trees taken down from near the farmhouse last Winter. The previous owners ran the LPG in to lights in the living room, although they give off a rather sinister, hissing yellow light you can read a book if the electricity goes off.
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it's kicking off up here now but worst to hit at midnight. I've done as much as I can outside so filling the flasks, gas stoves out and torches charged.... :gloomy:
would relish the idea of an early night and reading my candle light but I have a dementia patient to attend at 10pm
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I had to put my sun glasses on this morning when driving but unfortunately the sun didn't last for long :gloomy:
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Wind is getting strong and the rain is lashing down now
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High wind, rain and hailstones here.
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I've brought the cows in. But I'm going dancing tonight come hell or high water ;D
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I've brought the cows in. But I'm going dancing tonight come hell or high water ;D
but what if the high water ruins your dancing shoes
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I've brought the cows in. But I'm going dancing tonight come hell or high water ;D
but what if the high water ruins your dancing shoes
Can you dance in your wellies?
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I was up west of Brechin today and apart from a couple of spitters, the rain didn't come to anything. In fact quite a nice day all in all. Got cooler and a wee bit windy this avo but nothing too bad. Looking west though the sky was black as coal.
And sure enough driving home, when I got west of Forfar the monsoons started and continued until I got home. Roads were flooded, fields washed out onto the roads - not pleasant at all. And then to top it off I returned home to water pouring out of the field behind us, under the fence flooding the drive and washing away soil from the back fruit bed, and also at various other places throughout the garden. 2 hrs I was diverting the water and clearing out the channel that our farmer neighbour had dug previously to stop the water pouring into our property.
And while doing so the wind took the duck house roof off and narrowly missed them :relief: Its been strapped back on for the night and fresh bedding has been put in.
Outcome - I was frozen, soaked to under garments and hacked off. But now sitting in front of the stove I feel much better. (sorry had to have a little rant there :rant:)
Best of luck folks in the main target zone. I hope there is minimum damage caused.
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Hope everyone survived the storm.
We have missed the worst, thankfully.
And I did go dancing and it was great fun. And I now know my promenade from my petronella :thumbsup:
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Hope everyone survived the storm.
We have missed the worst, thankfully.
And I did go dancing and it was great fun. And I now know my promenade from my petronella :thumbsup:
Watch out Strictly ;D
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Watch out Strictly ;D
;D It's Scottish Country Dancing, so I think Strictly is safe :)
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It was pretty bad here in the early hours of the morning but everyone is used to this kind of weather so I shouldn't think anyone suffered too badly. Our flat roof is leaking, which it always does when they weather gets wild and the pig ark blew over but that's all. We didn't even lose any rooftiles!
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It gusted so hard last night, I thought the roof was going to fly off. Then hard rain. Much brighter today but gusty.
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the back wall of one of the pig arks blew out but that was pretty much it, today on the other hand I had to turn around half way to work because of the heavy hail showers, like driving on marbles
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Been a bit blowy here today; showers and sunshine but much much colder tha it's been. Was 4C on the car.
There's snow up the Glens and between here and Forfar in the higher villages.
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Four seasons in one day? So far we've had brilliant sunshine. horizontal rain, howling wind and snow. Ahh Scotland :love:
For me, very strong winds are the scariest thing. Ours have been strong but not desperately so. I hope all of you up there will be OK tonight.
Cross posted with Rosemary - sounds pretty similar here with you R
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Look like we got off lightly here in the Peterhead area . blowy and a bit of rain hope everyone else is ok .
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We got the gale force wind and rain last night, and it eased a bit this morning, only to return this afternoon. And its gone so much colder now. I see we have a weather warning for heavy rain in our area ....as if we do not have enough sodden ground and mud to contend with.
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We had wind and rain but nothing out of the ordinary. It must have bypassed Shropshire.
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Must have rained all night here, needed to rescue the ewes this morning from the river field. :raining: :sheep:
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I spoke to my neighbour this morning, who keeps a weekly record of rainfall: Nearly 10 inches have fallen here in each of the past two weeks! :raining:
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I spoke to my neighbour this morning, who keeps a weekly record of rainfall: Nearly 10 inches have fallen here in each of the past two weeks! :raining:
Jeez :raining: :raining: :raining:
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My dogs were almost swimming this morning :innocent: - won't get them in their outside runs for a couple of days till it drains away - ducks loved it, hens stayed inside all day
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We apparently have a storm called Barney heading our way on Tuesday evening - Wales and the Midlands this time.
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Its stormier up here tonight than it was last week!
Snow on the way for the end of the week ?
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Four seasons in one day? So far we've had brilliant sunshine. horizontal rain, howling wind and snow. Ahh Scotland :love:
Here too! So far we've had horizontal howling rain (autumn), horizontal howling rain (winter), horizontal howling rain (spring) and horizontal howling rain (summer!). Ahh Coastal West Wales (poor life choices!! :raining:) :love: