lovely sunny morning for a change.
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lovely sunny morning for a change.
here too. Won't last though.
Forecast says 100% chance of rain here this afternoon, rest of week looks wet.
No, it's due to pish down by teatime... However, for those of us with gardens (with plants and produce in), which badly needed watering, the recent deluge of rain was much welcomed!:)
Now, we just want summer to start.
Marco.
no rain forecast here til thursday. but the sunny weather is today only
Long awaited rain which is doing my newly laid turf a power of good. It's so cold though, just 12c..:eek:
Rained all day yesterday and has only recently just stopped, now blowing a gale, quite chilly, should be better by Friday.
Bright sunshine and warm Kent way. Can easily start this way and go south very quickly thoughhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...80848020d4.jpg
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Yup, same here now and yesterday, from 3pm onwards... Managed to get the grass cut before the heavens opened! Thank fuck, as it's due to rain here until Friday, so by then it would've been some length... The grass has never looked so lovely and green, though!:)
Good to see that Scotland is getting their spell of (long overdue) dry weather. Enjoy folks:cool:
Marco.
Dry this morning so far
You live in one of the rainiest parts of Scotland, too... When I lived up there, almost every time I was around your way it rained!:eyebrows:
Anyway, looking at the forecast this morning, you should be fine for today:)
Marco.
It's also crap weather for Janet, Charlotte and Jean.
Who be they?:scratch:
Marco.
No way did you just fall for that. Lol
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the local bike?
Lol good idea. Would my local garden centre stock it? ;)
Get the smell of it wafting up from somewhere anyway.
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drug testing at work :(
Lol - I meant for the window box:D
Marco.
Today's morning was really lovely but now I'm seeing some very picturesque dark clouds out of my office window.
I only hope there would be no hail like yesterday!
It's been raining heavily none-stop here for the last 27 hours. And it's still going. You have these people going on about how water is a precious resource. We should all be millionaires round here then if that's true.
Been nice and sunny here today but just not hot enough for me... ;)
Been raining solidly for the last three days more or less, we had the woodburner on last night and the central heating for an hour.
Wood burner? No, it's not that cold... Ours has been retired for the winter since the beginning of May.
As long as it's 14-15C indoors, we don't need any heating on, which indeed has been the case, although we give the central heating a blast first thing in the morning, just to take a slight chill out the air, then the house is fine for the rest of the day.
Anyway, after nearly 3 days of continually heavy rain (there's been lots of flooding in Wrexham, but we live at the top of a hill), it's much drier this morning, still raining but no where near as heavy, and the sky is brighter, so I think better weather is on the way, but not expecting much in that respect until Sunday!:cool:
Marco.
Still raining here but now it's that fine stuff that soaks you through.
Well, if it’s a normal rain, an umbrella would help. This fine stuff just floats in the air and there’s no help unless you’re willing to wear waterproof overalls :D
Lol - but the use of an umbrella would have the same effect (i.e. keeping you dry) with the fine stuff, as it does with the heavy stuff - at the end of the day it's all (rain) water!
The only difference is when either is accompanied by heavy wind, which then negates the use of a brolly, unless you want to go swanning off into the sunset like Cinderella:D
Marco.
Anyway, still raining and pretty miserable here, so going out for lunch later with my dad and a friend, who's down visiting from Glasgow, at Telford's Warehouse in Chester: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en...oiowCnoECAsQBg
Awesome beer selection in this place, and the food is also top notch!:cool:
Marco.
How can a Scotsman not be familiar with wet rain?
An umbrella's no use in wet rain because wet rain doesn't drop on you from above, it's all around you, like you are waking through a cloud. There's no defense against it.
I was only in Scotland a week and I saw all types of rain multiple times, including wet rain :scratch:
Yesh, but one way or another, ALL rain is WET!:D
If it's raining (fine or otherwise), and you wear a good, genuinely waterproof jacket (with a hood) and similar trousers, with suitable footwear, you'll NOT get wet!
Marco.
P.S I'm not a Scotsman. I'm an Italian who was born in Scotland;)
The wettest rain I've ever been caught in was in September 2010. I'd been on an 'Open Doors' visit to Bristol University, and, as I left, it started drizzling. It's about a fifteen-minute walk from the university to our house. After five minutes the rain was sheeting down and after ten minutes I was wetter than I've ever been before or since. I didn't have an umbrella or jacket, and got completely soaked. When I got home I stripped off in the lobby, gathered up my clothes, dumped them in the bath and had a shower to warm myself up. A thunderstorm in Rome in 2014 was a close second, but we were able to take cover in a cafe for the worst part of it.
That's the beauty of having a nice log or coal fire to sit in front of, which would've warmed you up in no time...
One of my favourite memories from childhood, is getting similarly soaked, coming off the school bus and walking home in rain, then as soon as I got in, my mum would have the coal fire going nice and warm, and I'd get stripped off and dry myself in front of it. A very comforting feeling!:)
Marco.
The visuals of that have made my eyes water.
Has anyone got a nest? I bought one a short time after moving into my flat and I have to say it has surpassed my expectations by a country mile.
It turns off when I'm not in.. It knows my preferred temp when I am in. It has time to temp which means it knows how long it will take to get to your preferred temp (v handy for the morning) It will go to reduced temp during the night and learns just about every pattern you care to throw at it. I rarely rave about things but I don't think I could do without this thing now. I love it
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I don't have a NEST. I have a fan heater I bought for tenner from the charity shop. If it's a bit nippy I just put that on for five minutes.
I've also got a big 3.5 kilowatt industrial fan heater, great bit of kit. But if you run it too long the plug welds itself to the socket. So I don't use that no more.
This don't sound as good as a nest to me. I'm seriously saying it's the best home improvement gadget I have ever installed.
You can stick your alexas up your Harris this thing does what it says it does and does it very well
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Macca you can relegate the fan heater for a few months. Those things cost a fortune
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Never heard of a NEST... What is it?:scratch:
Marco.
It's a device that controls your central heating via the Web
Does what a hive and other similar devices do but nest were born from Google and do it in a way that I think is ingenious. After wiring everything onto your boiler nest starts learning your habits from the off. It knows when you get up so will make sure your desired temp is there when you wake it knows when you are out so will drop temp to a temp of your choice. You can turn it on, on your home from a night out or holiday break and you can remotely turn it off if you accidentally leave it on.
Its the best home gadget I have invested in and I woyld buy it for double the amount they sell it for currently (£200)
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