Crap weather for October.

[Marco]

Nice one, mate

Marco.

[Oddball]

Had a call from a flustered owd lad who told me the road was blocked by a motorhome that had been blown through the gates of my neighbours
My lad and I were asked to call the Police (which we didnt ) but we went down for a larf!!

There it was parked across the road after taking out the recycling boxes

No hand brake on or in gear either . We pushed it back 4 ft and put bricks behind the wheels , (so peeps could get past )and buggered off


Today its back in its pen but no one came to say thanks ! Never mind

[walpurgis]

Raining and gloomy. Back to normal for Autumn then!

[struth]

Gloomy here too.. 9c and although not raining everything is sodden.

[Barry]

Can do no better than to quote Keats:

TO AUTUMN.


SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.


Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.


Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

[walpurgis]

We had a passing shower earlier. It's sunny now and the broken cloud is whizzing by pretty rapidly. The wind is definitely getting up! Seems 'Storm Brian' has arrived.

[Minstrel SE]

Heating on this morning for the first real session. Its been raining for several days now and its 8 degrees outside.

Although october has been mild so far I just feel that winter is creeping in now

[walpurgis]

It's gloomy and overcast, pretty windy too, but mild at 18C. Could get a shower I think.

They say we are due for a warmer spell in the next few days with temperatures maybe up in the twenties once the wind turns and comes from the south.

[walpurgis]

Looks like it could be a decent day. It's mild with a bit of hazy cloud and a hint of blue sky. I think it should be sunny later.

[walpurgis]

Bit of a fresh start today at 6C. 12C now and won't get warmer I think, as the wind is from the N/E. As usual, when the wind is in that direction, I can hear the skeet shooting five miles away at the West London Shooting Grounds. Load of shotgun bangs. Must be a busy day there.