yes, just as i'm about to start on the garden- big flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder. followed of course, by a downpour.
one cat and myself sought shelter in the greenhouse. at least yesterdays plantings are being watered in :-\.
so-gardening on A4A now.
anyone else had thunderstorms yet?
No thunder as yet but it's persisting down here and gone quite dark....
It went from a bright sunny day to rain just as i got my lawnmower out...Grrrrr
So that job will have to go onto tomorrows list now.
Supposed to be coming our way tomorrow Kerry so trying to get things done in between heavy bouts of rain today. Ah the joys of British weather. :(
Yes we had thunder and lightning here. The rain was torrential but everything smelled so lovely afterwards.
I had just finished all my work in the garden and it started. ;D I'd just filled the ponds up to. ::)
Had it all in Somerset, hail included. Went so dark seemed like the end of the world had come upon us.
We were warned - this is just the tail end of it. But only 5mm of rain today.
now that map i understand!
thunder like the end of the world here too-then a huuuuge downpour-good for the garden-at least at this timeof the year 'weather' is short lived... ::)
for all its weather foibles i still wouldnt want to live anywhere else :)
We had a good hour of heavy rain with off rolls of thunder just after I got to my plot. Thunder down there always makes me a bit apprehensive; my first summer on the site we had a long series of massive thunderstorms, inluding what the Council described as a '100-year event' with a tornado a couple of miles away. My plot was flooded four times, and since it slopes away from the stream (which is an old mill leat not the natural bed) the water stood for about three days each time before it finally drained away. The soil turned to a quagmire, there were times when I couldn't step off the paths even in wellies, and plants which were standing upright one day would be lying on their sides the next.
Well according to that map Merseyside isnt having any weather, ::) but I can assure you wild horses would not have dragged me out in what we had. ;D
I managed to get some light work done yesterday, mostly greenhouse, before the storm in the afternoon
My first time down the lottie since my recent operation and boy was it good to be there. I was driven there curtesy of another plotholder and found that my neighbours have looked after things very well.
I had ten containers in the greenhouse all set up for peppers and I now I find have tomatoes planted in them. A very kind neighbour thought he/she was doing me a favour....a bit of very discrete moving is now required methinks.
Derek
No, Maz - you can have weather without thunder!
Another 5mm last night, so that's 10 for the day. Most welcome.
Luckily, I can nip out between showers.
How can you complain about thunder? :o Great stuff gets nitrogen into the soil. Send some up here please
i remember reading a bob flowerdew article in KG magazine about the good that rain, as opposed to watering from a can, does-particularly rain after a thunderstorm- something to do with ions? ???
i think i remember him suggesting that plants benefit from the exchange of air in the soil following a downpour. (perhaps someone more technically gifted can explain better!)
certainly it smells good.
mac: will send some your way then, if it returns today! cannot make up its mind at the minute-dark then sun, still threatening ::)
Thanks to standard grade chemistry i can explain for you kerry. :D
Air is composed of 80% nitrogen, and when lightning strikes, it creates enough heat energy to release an amount of nitrogen as nitric acid, which the rain absorbs and dilutes, rain falls on ground, ground is fertilised, gardeners are happy and say- "send me thunder now please" to other gardeners on forums ;D ;D
So could you? ;)
Tim, I meant there was nothing on the map but we did indeed have thunder and lots of it.
Oh well, It gave me a chance to read my new pond book. ;D
return of the mac-thats a very silly avatar you have there.i'm glad to say! ;D
thunder and lightening?
dont talk to me about thunder and lightening i was blown 10 feet sideways by a lightening bolt landing outside our shop about 11 years ago-landed very comfortably on 3 ton of bagged clay..oh was..ahem!'busy' in the powder room-which was just as well really-saved a lot of emergency washing :-[
the noise!-(i mean from the lightening )had to be heard to be beleived-
i spose it was either us or the cathedral 100 yards down the lane..of course-they had god on their side so we got it!
used to like a good electrical storm..now i'm a bit more wary.. :o
Not bad down here, but spare a thought for a lot of my mates who were riding their harleys from Lands end to John o Groats passing a baton at regular intervals in a Ride for Life collecting for charity. Hail, thunder, whirlwinds,monsoons and strong winds. They finish tonight at about 7.00 Great lads, and lassies.
1. Rain. Isn't it amazing - its effect as opposed to watering? Almost immediate.
2. Mersey Maz. Sorry you weren't on the map! I'll have a word with the team!
3. Ride for Life. At least the Harley is built to stand punishment? And of course, you lent one of them your hat??
Taken about 3 minutes ago from my bedroom window. Sorry about quality grab shot.
flippin ek!
can you see the rainbow in the middle-amazing!
thanks for thatdd! :)
:o Great pic Dirk.
Mersey maz huh? I sound like a 'lady' who works on the docks!! :o ;D ;D ;D
Belive me, Maz DOES work on the docks, i saw her during my tourist visit last week, didnt i Maz? ;D
Dirk that is the most fantastic picture (I need a thumbs up smilie)
You have captured so much in that image that i adore and appreciate.
What a fantastic pic that is, truely amazing :)
Oh, and yes, Maz does work on the docks, very regularly ;) ;D ;D ;D :-* :-* :-*
We were supposed to have a storm at some point on Friday or Saturday, but it never turned up :(
York got a belting great big storm apparently, and that's only down the road >:(
Quotereturn of the mac-thats a very silly avatar you have there.i'm glad to say!
Thank you kitty- if you ever have an unfortunate celery accident i will be pleased to help ;D ;D ;D
John
as i can trip over in an empty room mac,its only a matter of time! ;D ::)
What about a room full of celery...
great photo, DD.
mac-now i know why it's good-thanks for the info! incredibly dark skies here, reckon i can send up some of the 'good stuff' sooner rather than later........
QuoteWhat about a room full of celery...
::)doesn't bear thinking about- a celerific catastrophe!
Kerry im waiting...
I might just arrange a celery 'accident' for you as well as kitty!! ;) if its not sooner...
are you threatening me? :o
this could be celery at dawn......
Quote from: return of the mac on May 22, 2005, 20:54:00
What about a room full of celery...
:o :o :o My idea of a nightmare! I cant bear the stuff. Â :-X Â
Quote from: kitty on May 22, 2005, 21:21:32
are you threatening me? :o
this could be celery at dawn......
:o Surely thats not neccecelery?
{{{groan}}}
per-lease! ;Dwe're talking CELERY here-not corn!!!
my oh cant stand celery either!more for me!yum!
Maz- neccecelery it is i necelerate it
Kitty, Maz, Kerry, im going to be busy arranging these celery accidents, but next time you walk past the grocers or the fresh fruit and veg, just watch out for the celery
Celery dipped in peanut butter is delicious - one of my fave treats ;D Not good for the waist, though :-\
I'd hate to think that one of my fave veggies might cause me to have an accident...........is it really possible? :(
:o Corn?? :o corn?? you think my jokes are corny?? ::) I fear you are not alone. ::) ;D
Actually celery is a very good diet food- unlike mazs corn it has a negative calorific content- it uses more calories when being digested than it contains
Nah, he's probably not alone Maz ;D
I'd heard about the negative calorie thing with celery. Lettuce is the same isn't it?
It's the dipping it in peanut butter than makes a mockery of it ;D
Well in WelshWales yesterday morn, as we sped around the roads out of Welshpool, the rain fell horizontally and freezingly, but by 11.30, the sun came out and we had a gorgeous afternoon!
Just a short shower here today at about 6pm (just after I had finished watering) but I live about 8 miles from what is reputed to be the driest place in UK. I love the rain and storms so I feel quite cheated.
celery accident-ooer! :o
yes-i'm hiding til he forgets about us-i have enough 'accidents'without inviting anymore-so many in fact i think our house may be on an old sioux burial ground...... :(
I will never forget!! ;D (i am a celery eating elephant you see)
and i am a mouse(kitty is a cunning disguise!)