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I can cope with just about everybody else getting rain but Cambourne! Here I am only a few miles away and all we've had so far are a couple of short showers  Monday and Tuesday, not even enough to make me wet let alone the soil! It's bone dry again.
The youngest son is on a school trip to study rivers/streams today I was sure that would make it rain....probably over Peterborough where he's standing in a stream but not here.
The weather forecast says rain at about 3pm.....the new water butt is waiting.

Metcheck says rain every day for the next week for our area (SW London)  - fingers crossed.

Quote from: Kea on May 09, 2007, 10:29:13
I can cope with just about everybody else getting rain but Cambourne! Here I am only a few miles away and all we've had so far are a couple of short showers  Monday and Tuesday, not even enough to make me wet let alone the soil! It's bone dry again.
The youngest son is on a school trip to study rivers/streams today I was sure that would make it rain....probably over Peterborough where he's standing in a stream but not here.
The weather forecast says rain at about 3pm.....the new water butt is waiting.

3pm is fine i will have finished digging the doc out of my last bed by then and it can rain all it likes till friday  :D

Well rather amazingly....right at 3pm it started raining! However it rained lightly for about an hour then stopped.

Raining again.  ;D ;D ;D

a lovely fine drizzle for the last 20 mins ..... we need about a week of this
1/2 inch below the surface our soil is like dust

just driven though really heavy rain, it been raining since about 3.30!

The odd thing is that there gritting the road!!! Do you think were due a frost?

It's been drizzling here since about 2pm. I got to the allotment briefly at lunch time, and the soil still looked as dry as ever.

Proper rain here, no deluge but steady drizzle and bouts of proper rain so should be soaking in really well. About 1/2 " by teatime having left a rain gauge out (OK it was a mug)...
;D

Not much in West Yorks sadly.

Watched the local weather for cast with interest. Great rain later in the day so of i go to commit carnage on any weeds that has popped their heads out. Purged the whole of the garden, weeded and hoed up my spuds, Then it came still had the rest of the garden to do. Oh well never mind have a cuppa and a f*g, it stopped before i got to the shed. Oh well cleaned out the onion bed and every other bit of garden every corner North, South, East and West. So where is the bloody rain. I think the weather people are laughing at me.

raining here near bristol !! managed to get carrots,swede,parsnips.s onions and radish in before it chucked it down ;Dlots more to catch up on but the list is a bit shorter
marg

Raining good in Hull finally

Can i have some of your rain please, Pretty please even

Lovely steady drizzle and light showers in Winchester. Need a bit more action from the sky to fill the waterbutts.  But this is soaking the ground, which is fantastic, rather this way than a deluge after the dry weeks.

I'm sorry, it appears we're getting everybodies share here.  It's hardly stopped for the last couple of days.  Wind and rain and puddles galore.  Please come and take it away?

Sand

I agree with you Sand, here in sunny Manchester, it is raining cats, dogs and elephants! Why oh why can't it just rain at night and be fine in the day... haven't managed to get on the plot for 2 days, fingers crossed for  a dry day tomorrow, need to weeeeeed! Lin

Rain was heard outside late last night, but everything's looking fairly dry again this morning.

our 3 water butts have filled, only 3 more to go..cold though !!  :)

Raining here in Sunny Enfield for about an hour and a half now, If you want some Davy I'm selling it for £1 for a bucket or £3 for five buckets, seed swaps are welcome to. Really its like living in Manchester, got to go my cornbeef hash is burning.  ;D ;D ;D