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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Alimo on April 23, 2011, 09:12:44

Title: Hooray for Rain !!
Post by: Alimo on April 23, 2011, 09:12:44
Well thank goodness for that - a couple of really heavy showers yesterday have replenished my water butts.  ;D  Excellent for the veg too.

Had to feel sorry for the people wanting to go to the beach tho ... nah on second thoughts I'm glad we had the rain - even if we couldn't eat outside.

Alison
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Post by: cornykev on April 23, 2011, 10:47:17
Still hot and Sunny here.  8) 8) 8)
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Post by: Digeroo on April 23, 2011, 10:49:38
No rain for 8 weeks here.  Water butts empty.   Plants starting to droop.

But lovely and sunny. 8) 8) 8)  Air seems a bit fresher today.
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Post by: gp.girl on April 23, 2011, 13:29:52
Stop rubbing it in  ;D ;D ;D

And send some here  ;)
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Post by: goodlife on April 23, 2011, 14:51:07
What rain ???...its like July weather..red hot..lobster skins in shorts ..sweaty betty..icy cold drinks and bbq weather.. ;D ;D..feels lovely but land do need some rain!!!
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Post by: landimad on April 23, 2011, 16:47:32
Did I miss something as the ground is bone dry here. :-X
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Post by: sunloving on April 23, 2011, 17:48:18
At last we even had thunder last night to go with it. Got lots of weeding and sowing done today. Feels good you can almost hear things growing. Slug carnage though this morning little buggers . x sunloving
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Post by: daitheplant on April 23, 2011, 17:53:51
Baking hot here again today. Apparently today  is the hottest April day since 1949. :o 8) 8)
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Post by: OllieC on April 23, 2011, 18:03:09
Nothing here - personally I'm delighted - it's holding the weeds back!
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Post by: Jill on April 23, 2011, 18:33:08
Plenty of thunder and lightening but only a few drops :(  My lawn is already turning to straw.
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Post by: brownowl23 on April 23, 2011, 18:54:02
grey rain cloudy sky, thunder and lightening but not a flamin drop of rain since I got home, evidence of a little bit earlier but not enough to actually soak anything, earth all dried back up pavign slabs damp.

The had bucket loads at the M25/M26 junction, we were coming home and traffic had to slow to 30 mile an hour for fear of aquaplaning, M25 was like a river.
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Post by: Jeannine on April 23, 2011, 19:42:21
You are welome to it.. it has been here for months, we have had two sunny days without rain..ain't life funny XX Jeanninew
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Post by: cornykev on April 23, 2011, 19:47:04
Thunder, lightening and Rain for the last hour and a half.   ;D
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Post by: tonybloke on April 23, 2011, 20:38:58
no rain here!
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Post by: Fork on April 23, 2011, 23:09:05
For the sunworshippers another glorious day..for us gardeners another dry one with no rain....lots of thunder and lightening in the distance but nothing close  :(
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Post by: Nobbyman on April 23, 2011, 23:21:57
not a drop here in lovely sunny and hot brizzle!!!  8) 8) 8) 8) :-*
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Post by: taurus on April 23, 2011, 23:37:43
Ground like concrete.   :'( :'(
Water buts empty   ::) ::)
weeds growing like mad, no surprise there.
please can we have some rain ;D ;D
Have a great Easter to you all.
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Post by: Digeroo on April 24, 2011, 21:00:26
We actually had a shower last night and I put a bucket under the downpipe from the garage roof and got about 1/2 pint.

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Post by: Poppy Mole on April 24, 2011, 21:06:35
What rain? Thank goodness I'm not on a water meter!
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Post by: Lottiman on April 24, 2011, 21:08:06
Just a complete dust bowl, thunder and lightning last night but not a spot of rain here in oxfordshire. :(
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Post by: Mrs Gumboot on April 24, 2011, 21:14:29
Stop hogging it all!! Drained one butt today & the second is probably about half full. One more to go at, but then we're onto metered water. Not fun. Poor plants starting to seriously suffer. :'(

Only upside is that I needed to get the end butt drained in order to get it back into position properly after the scaffold for the roof knocked it. Every cloud & all that  ::)
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Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 24, 2011, 21:24:51
what bl00dy rain??
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Post by: Crystalmoon on April 25, 2011, 00:51:26
No rain here in Kent either :'(
My heavy clay plot isnt liking thi sdry weather
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Post by: antipodes on April 26, 2011, 10:34:58
Just a few drops here in Nantes  :'( :'(
It's really dry, the soil underneath is cool but not very damp any longer... And my two rain barrels are empty more or less. Luckily we have water on site but I have to walk further to get it :)
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Post by: mat on April 26, 2011, 10:53:19
Nothing to write home about for 2 months in my part of N Yorks... Cannot remember the last time I saw any.  I have some forecast for later this week; I'll believe it when I see it.  Whitby had a huge storm at the weekend, but when I got home it was bone dry, and not a drop had landed apparently.
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Post by: Chrispy on April 26, 2011, 10:55:10
Here is a nice website to look at....
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ (http://www.raintoday.co.uk/)
well when I say nice to look at, I mean it is a nice looking website, but the current content it is  :'(
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Post by: Poppy Mole on April 26, 2011, 11:22:29
Still no rain
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Post by: Digeroo on April 26, 2011, 12:18:31
I am going away for weekend it is sure to rain.