Crap Weather For May

[Macca]

After a reasonable start, it pretty much pissed down here all day, which was good, as the garden badly needed it! The forecast suggests that 'normal service' will be resumed over the Bank Holiday weekend, so we're preparing for more scorchers

Marco.

I was going to say that your lawn needed watering when you posted a pic of it but decided not to.


Rained heavy here too but it stopped about 1500.


It's odd where I work, it can be different weather just up the road a few hundred yards. And it is always windy. Remember the Munsters? When they showed their house from the outside it was always blowing a gale through the trees? That's exactly how it is outside my offices. Every day, all year round.

[Marco]

I was going to say that your lawn needed watering when you posted a pic of it but decided not to.

Lol - you should've done, as it was a fact. This is the first rain we've had here for 5 days, all of which have been scorchers, so the lawn was defo needing a good soaking!

Rained heavy here too but it stopped about 1500.

The worst of it stopped around that time, but still continued to drizzle. I was in Nantwich for most of the day, checking out a new motorbike for my uncle. The weather was even worse there.

It's odd where I work, it can be different weather just up the road a few hundred yards. And it is always windy. Remember the Munsters? When they showed their house from the outside it was always blowing a gale through the trees? That's exactly how it is outside my offices. Every day, all year round.

Yeah, you do get some weird little 'pockets' of micro-climates in certain areas. For some reason, Wrexham seems to be a bit of a sun trap, as quite often it can be sunny here, and then if I drive 12 miles into Chester, it can be grey and overcast, or go in the other direction, and it's often the same.

I've even driven down from Scotland, and it can be raining almost all the way until we hit Wrexham, and all of a sudden the sun comes out!

Not complaining, though....

Marco.

[Macca]

Lol - you should've done, as it was a fact. This is the first rain we've had here for 5 days, all of which have been scorchers, so the lawn was defo needing a good soaking!



The worst of it stopped around that time, but still continued to drizzle. I was in Nantwich for most of the day, checking out a new motorbike for my uncle. The weather was even worse there.



Yeah, you do get some weird little 'pockets' of micro-climates in certain areas. For some reason, Wrexham seems to be a bit of a sun trap, as quite often it can be sunny here, and then if I drive 12 miles into Chester, it can be grey and overcast, or go in the other direction, and it's often the same.

I've even driven down from Scotland, and it can be raining almost all the way until we hit Wrexham, and all of a sudden the sun comes out!

Not complaining, though....

Marco.

Thought I was being a bit picky about the lawn and anyway you've got eyes so you'd have spotted it already in any case.

I'm a bit obsessive about lawns, I always kept the one at me mam and dad's like a bowling green. It's not that great now but it has been over 30 years since I moved out.

[Joe]

Thought I was being a bit picky about the lawn and anyway you've got eyes so you'd have spotted it already in any case.

I'm a bit obsessive about lawns, I always kept the one at me mam and dad's like a bowling green. It's not that great now but it has been over 30 years since I moved out.

Ours is more a sort of wildflower meadow.

[Marco]

I'm a bit obsessive about lawns, I always kept the one at me mam and dad's like a bowling green.

That's rather interesting, as no offence, I wouldn't have had you down as the type!

Marco.

[Marco]

Ours is more a sort of wildflower meadow.

Ah, you've gone for that un-managed 'natural' look

Marco.

[Joe]

Ah, you've gone for that un-managed 'natural' look

Marco.

Or the 'lazy-arsed' look as it's otherwise know. Cunningly merging two threads, the Royal wedding gave me several hours in which to clear the worst of the weeds and give the lawns a quick trim, so now they look slightly unkempt rather than entirely neglected.

[Pigmy Pony]

Yeah, gardens and "lady gardens" have much in common.

In the sixties/seventies, lawns were more like meadows, quite bushy and sometimes a bit overgrown.

These days they tend to be more carefully manicured, sometimes no grass, just gravel or flagging.

Slugs trails are a constant though

[Macca]

That's rather interesting, as no offence, I wouldn't have had you down as the type!

Marco.

Over the years I've adopted a much more relaxed attitude towards pretty much everything. So I don't blame you. I still have thing about lawns though. I went round Anfield once and they let you touch the turf. It's like carpet.

[Marco]

Yeah, gardens and "lady gardens" have much in common.

In the sixties/seventies, lawns were more like meadows, quite bushy and sometimes a bit overgrown.

These days they tend to be more carefully manicured, sometimes no grass, just gravel or flagging.

Slugs trails are a constant though

What are you like? Next you'll be telling your wife that you'd prefer it if she had a 'baldy lawn'

Marco.