[Roxy]

and no electric tonight.  Thank goodness a bit of charge in the laptop!!  2.5inches of rain fell in the village this afternoon, and everyone has had the sandbags out. We are high up, so not flooded.  Fields are like rivers.......

[tizaala]

Poor you, This whole summer has been a total washout , I was only thinking yesterday that if the jet stream does not move north soon will all this rain be falling as snow this winter?

[Rosemary]

Poor you, This whole summer has been a total washout , I was only thinking yesterday that if the jet stream does not move north soon will all this rain be falling as snow this winter?

Ooh, there's a thought. Just as well I've only used one scoopful of the tonne of salt I bought last year 

[bangbang]

I've tuned up my OH's snow shovel (waxed) for the hard winter that has been predicted. 

[plumseverywhere]

   just a few hours of dry weather today is all I ask while I try to find a roofer who is willing to come out on an emergency call out to mend the holes in our roof - why say you are an 'emergency roofer' on your website but not return calls?!


buckets, pans and sodden towels everywhere and today we had promised to take the girls out somewhere nice to make up for them amusing themselves so much lately (while we had plum harvest/ lots of work etc)


Does anyone else think we might have a sizzling October?

[jaykay]

Does anyone else think we might have a sizzling October?

Pleeeaaaase. Actually, just dry would do.

Hope you get your roof mended quickly Plums 

Could you ghouls stop talking about snow already!

[bloomer]

i know it was raining hard enough here in the night to wake me up and i looked out and the road was a river (we're at the top so it all flows away from us)

[lachlanandmarcus]

We waited 3 weeks to get our broken slates fixed.
But they have the right idea up here, when a roof is renewed (which we had to as the place was a ruin before we had it) it has a waterproof breathable membrane plus the whole thing is lined with pine boards (sarking), which stop the membrane sagging and possibly tearing, which means even tho we had a gap, not a drop of water came in. Think they should do this everywhere!
Not that this helps you Plums but might be useful to those who need to do the whole roof.
NB I hope your bill when it comes is as small as ours was, ok it was a couple of broken and cracked slates but the bill was only £21....:-))

[Rosemary]

Hope everyone is coping with the rain and finding emegency roofers 

[Roxy]

Oh dear, the village pub is mopping up, and all the cottages at the bottom of the hill, they seem to have ended up with the contents of the track in their gardens and houses ......it must be heartbreaking, because its not just once, but time and time again this summer.  It had rained all night very hard, dry till lunchtime, and then a couple of hours of torrential rain.  The ground is sodden, and cannot take so much rain, can it!!

[doganjo]

What I don't understand is where all the rain is all coming from - there's been so much of it and such hard downpours.  I understand about evaporation etc but it hasn't had time to evaporate before the next onslaught comes down.

[jaykay]

Yes, someone somewhere must be getting some sunshine, to do all the evaporating. I want to know where! 

[lill]

was out fencing yesterday and got soaked, water running down the shuck o me arse.

[Moleskins]

was out fencing yesterday and got soaked, water running down the shuck o me arse.

Is this really you or has the OH logged onto your account again ? 

[doganjo]

Think it must have been Robert - Lill's not allowed to do any fencing - IS SHE, Lill!