[Blinkers]

Absolutely chuckin it down here and has been since about 2pm.      Positive torrents flooding off the top fields and into the lane.   Spent 2 hours topping up the flood defences 

Everyone OK??

[jameslindsay]

Had no rain in Fife so far, apparantly later on tonight it has to "hit" us. Something to look forward to eh?

[RUSTYME]

it has been very VERY wet here ....not that far from you Blinks ..so will more or less be the same ...The rain has eased over the last half hour or so , but my god the wind has picked up ...I am right under a very big ash tree here and it is really creaking badly at times !!! Much more to come tonight so they say .....Life in a caravan is fun ... 
 Hope you aren't getting hit too hard Mandy !!
 

Cheers

Russ

[Blinkers]

it has been very VERY wet here ....not that far from you Blinks ..so will more or less be the same ...The rain has eased over the last half hour or so , but my god the wind has picked up ...I am right under a very big ash tree here and it is really creaking badly at times !!! Much more to come tonight so they say .....Life in a caravan is fun ... 
 Hope you aren't getting hit too hard Mandy !!
 

Cheers

Russ

Blimey Russ - can't you move that wagon a little way out the way of the Ash Tree       Its a howlin' out there now like you said - but the torrents of water comin off the top fields has eased  ....but just hopin' the Goat Shed holds out    

All the critters (apart from the sheep    ) are tucked up in their beds - and bloomin glad to go in they were too

Keep safe Russ and run like hell if you hear the sound of snapping

[MiriMaran]

Its pretty miserable here too.  Every time it rains here half the bridle path that goes up the hill gushes down past our house and onto the road.

[RUSTYME]

lol... no it is a 30 footer stuck 2 feet in the air on blocks ...Branches have hit the roof before , but so far only ones upto about 3" or so in diameter and about 12 foot long. One big one , about 6" and 20 foot did fall right next to it last year though .... It fell during the night and didn't even wake the dogs let alone me !!!
 Wind is easing again here now , and the rain is back , not as heavy as before at the moment  .... I bet the river floods tonight though .... safe up here  from that .... must be about 40 foot above the river.
 Good luck with the goat shed ...hope it holds out ok ...take care mate ....

cheers

Russ

[Blinkers]

lol... no it is a 30 footer stuck 2 feet in the air on blocks  cheers

Russ

Ahh - mmmmm...bit big to push along a bit then        Yeah - sounds like its easing off a bit now - keeping everything crossed that's the worst over with  

Stay safe everyone.     

[sellickbhoy]

west lothian (well, linlithgow) has been pretty nice - hope it holds off til Monday, i've a load of garden jobs tomorrow

starting off by planting some of the garlic i grew last year - so this will be my 1st "free" garlic - fingers crossed

[Blinkers]

Brill - good luck with the garlick Sellickbhoy

I tried planting the cloves from a shop bought garlic earlier this year - but although the tops all looked OK - there was nothing goin on beneath the soil !!    Guess I should've bought a proper garlic for starters 

[Daisys Mum]

Hope it stays away from Berwickshire too, got sheep to worm and tag tomorrow.My son has day off so promised to help clean out hen and duck houses, be just my luck weather too bad and i will have to do them myself next week.

[HappyHippy]

Up here in Lanarkshire it's fairly calm - possibly the calm before the storm 
I did hear they're expecting winds of up to 70mph and torrential rain down south though - batten down the hatches everyone ! "worst storm of the year" according to the BBC.
I'll be thinking of you all & hope you're all ok (especially those of you in caravans )
BTW Sellickbhoy - love the new avatar 

[RUSTYME]

I have grown garlic from the stuff that comes in the  blue box from tesco , two garlic bulbs per box. It grew fine ...slightly smaller maybe than the boxed , but really good garlic and lots of cloves. I started mine about October time though . I think it depends on the growing year wether you can get away with spring planted cloves . One year I got perfect bulbs with good cloves , planted in spring . But another year I got really big single bulbs , no separate cloves at all ...The garlic itself was fine to use in cooking though.  


cheers

Russ

[daniellestocks]

Its terrible here in north yorks, pigs are in a bog now! lol
Im also in a static caravan and its swaying in the wind! 

[doganjo]

Brill - good luck with the garlick Sellickbhoy

I tried planting the cloves from a shop bought garlic earlier this year - but although the tops all looked OK - there was nothing goin on beneath the soil !!    Guess I should've bought a proper garlic for starters 

I've always done that and had good bulbs - I never buy garlic now.

[sellickbhoy]

the rain has started = boooooooooo

apparently there is an organic company from Nairn up nr Inverness

they sell via tesco - they are called the Nairn Garlic Company

anyway, as they grow the stuff in this climate, i'm sure if yo went to tesco and bought a few of their bulbs they'd do well over here

a lot of shop bought garlic is grown in spain, so probably wouldn't do well in the scottish climate