Miserable day here

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Yep, more of the same here, only yesterday we had no wind.

Not today.......'swindy

Dont mind rain and I dont mind wind, I DO NOT like them together >:(

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[Doris_Pinks]

Woken up to a nasty drizzle in East Sussex........which means I suppose I have to do some housework........or I could sow my tomatoes ???  Wonder which one will win! ::) ;D
Yesterday had a rare moment from OH who said lets go down the plot :o (Only the 2nd time in 10 years I have heard those words!)
After picking myself up off the floor we bundled into the car armed with spinach and beetroot to go under the cloche, and a few new pots. Got up there, got tools out and then got a hysterical phone call from daughter......her beloved 8 year old Guinea Pig had died :'( :'( :'(  So raced home, calmed said daughter, dragged her back up too, then of course the rain started!!  Now I would have stayed, but OH and teenager are not the outdoorsie type, so had to come home and play with seeds instead! ;D ;D

[posie]

Been raining here pretty much constantly since 9am yesterday, kids hate it cos they still have to take the dogs out! lol  Mind you I hate it when they come back looking like chocolate coloured Springers!  Why oh why did I get a cream sofa with 2 springies in the house   ???

[sawfish]

lovely and sunny here..................... so far.

[Tohellwithweeds]

its raining here in Lincoln and has been since six this morning and its windy  :( :( which means no lotty for me today wonder if OH wants to go to a garden centre erm how can i get him to go ????

[lorna]

Same here, I think it has been raining all night, it was when I went out with the dog at midnight and still raining when I got up at 7am. Flipping wind has also got blustery again. Methinks I will strip the wallpaper in the hall to give vent to my misery :'(

[Suzanne]

Rainy here too - started 3 pm yesterday and hasn't stopped.  :(

But there's always a silver lining I have Monday and tuesday off work YAYYYY!! and forecast is good allotmenting weather. Double YAYYYYYY!!!  ;D

[cornykev]

Rain rain rain what a pain.  :'( :'( :'(

[paddy]

The only good thing about all this wet and cold weather is i will enjoy my roast pork lunch all the more, followed by lighting the log fire and snoozing! 

[tonybloke]

Light rain on the east coast this morning, but I harvested parsnips, leeks, purple sprouting broccoli, and the First Rhubarb this season!!  I've already had the woodburner alight since last night, A Roast dinner, followed by a rhubarb crumble..... Hard Life, ain't it?

[paddy]

rhubarb crumble with custard mmmmm!

[Tin Shed]

Wet and windy here. Rhubarb for pudding here today as well!

[Robert_Brenchley]

My rhubarb's coming on nicely, apart from the two clumps which drowned in the waterlogging last summer. Apart from that, the rain's stopped, I sat through a committee meeting in a decidedly cold shed, and got two trays of leeks and six pansy varieties planted. Looking at the weather forecast, it's likely to remain too cold for outdoor planting all week.

[cambourne7]

could not get onto my plot today to check on the rhubarb made it up but the site of my mangled greenhouse and the high winds made me want to turn tail and run.

I will go up wednesday to check on the 4 rubarb crowns when i looked at them a month ago they were just breaking though the ground.

The weather here has been really nasty, in fact the wind work me up about 7am this morning and the rain has been fairly constant since about 6pm yesterday evening.

Going to sulk now!

[grotbag]

hi all,yep lousy day here to,did nip to lotty to pick some rhubarb( mines gone mad ,got loads of it),and made a nice crumble with it,1st time i have made a crumble.

[purple sprouting]

It's not the rain in Essex that's my problem (although it's that kind of drizzle that gets everything soaked) - but the freezing, biting wind.   I don't mind getting wet overally much but the wind today seems to make everything miserably cold. 

I haven't even taken the dog out yet...........

 

 

[dtw]

I sowed a load of seeds today, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, okra, asparagus, butternut squash, watermelons and pumpkins.
They are all inside my newly re-covered and cleaned out greenhouse.

[Plot69]

Miserable day? It's been a bloody miserable weekend here.

Went down the caravan Friday afternoon in brilliant sunshine with full intent to put the awning up and then on Sunday go for a cruise up river on our narrow boat.

Saturday morning got up, lovely calm day albeit overcast but still got the awning up. Put the storm straps on just as it started raining only to find the electric to the whole site had gone off so couldn't make tea or watch tele until they fixed it. It took two electricians all day testing the whole site only to find I'd hammered a 12" steel tent peg through the electric hookup cable which fused the whole site... 300 caravan inhabitants weren't too happy with me. However the 22 stone  soggy wet Welsh site manager who'd spent all day with the sparks searching for the fault and who'd missed his rugby thought it highly amusing. He'd been telling the site owners for years it needed replacing so now it has to be done... To the tune of £40k..... Oooops!

Anyway, they restored power to the rest of the site and with the help of three hookup lead we got power back on as well.

The the rain got heavier, the wind got stronger, the rain got heavier and the wind got even stronger and despite the electric fiasco I was pretty pleased I'd put the storm straps on.

Apart from the wind rocking the caravan about violently, my 7 year old son kept us up all night being sick and he had the trots pretty bad as well.

Got up Sunday morning to find the river was 5 foot higher, my boat was sitting 10 foot out from dry land, it was still P'ing down so we packed up and came home.

I'm now looking forward to a nice long relaxing stress free week back at work!

[caseylee]

It was horrible in swindon today, pouring with rain and so windy, wish summer woudl hurry up

[betula]

Went to the plot today,first time in a week as I have been away.All my newly dug beds under 2 ins of water so I guess I can say goodbye to my Jerusalem artichoke and garlic I planted a few weeks ago.
On the plus side I planted a Victoria plum and a Williams' pear so wish them luck.
I HATE CLAY SOIL :'(