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Will it ever stop today?? I am getting really twitchy because its raining too hard to get to the allotment! :'( Anyone else suffering ??

Duke

Quote from: Duke Ellington on August 09, 2008, 15:00:04
Will it ever stop today?? I am getting really twitchy because its raining too hard to get to the allotment! :'( Anyone else suffering ??

Duke

Yep.  As I said on another thread I've had to resort to housework!   >:(

G x

went, forgot my wellies, came home wet through  ;D

Yep, hasn't stoppped all day. Need to get the rets of my onins and spuds lifted. :(

its just vile isnt it

Got the grass cut on the lottie just in time this morning.
Am not sure that the weather is quite bad enough for housework yet though ;D

I always consult the met offices rainfall radar.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

if you click on your area you can see the latest and recent positions of the rain and calculate when it will reach you.

I worked out when I woke at 6am that I had two hours this morning from 6:30 until 8:30 and that it would rain for 5 or 6 hours and duly went to the allotment then. It rained from 8:30 until 14:30 (14mm)

Easy!

Quote from: Duke Ellington on August 09, 2008, 15:00:04
Will it ever stop today?? I am getting really twitchy because its raining too hard to get to the allotment! :'( Anyone else suffering ??

Duke

I spent two hours at my allotment in the pouring rain..............well to tell the truth it was two hours in my shed having a good tidy up and I also checked over my bagged potatoes to make sure I hadnt let any soft ones slip in or ones with slug damage.

I also spent some time in my greenhouses talking to my tomatoes  ;) ;D

just had time to pick a few runner beans and bunch of sweetpeas before it started :( :(

Would love a shed, but did manage to get up the lottie early to harvest stuff before the rain began. So feeling a bit better.

I agree with Tinshed though - it still wasn't wet enough to resort to house cleaning, so went of to mooch round the shops then came back this afternoon to turn my harvest into dinner.

never is it too wet to resort to housework..... ::)


i would have loved the chance to be rained off the allotment today-i have had 2 saturdays off in 16 years-o the joy of self employment!!!

but i'm not moaning-much ;)i shall get there tomorrow-d.v.
come hell or high water-and if this deluge continues it will be high water too-out with the ark chaps!!!
kitty
xx

couldnt resist popping up,just to check ,didnt stay long as had weather proof (not) flip flops on,jeez,i really should know better by now! x

Flip flops? In a deluge?! Yes, you really should know better...

Managed 3 hours this morning, was there by 8, took my early morning cup of tea in a flask and did as much as I could and came back for breakfast at 11 when the rest of my lot were just getting up.  Got soaked just at the end.

I love flipflops in the rain, they and my feet are easily dryable.  Best thing when camping - well when I was young anyway........ ::)

T.

i fully expect to get trench foot this year as i am always in sandals! :o
still....i'm not made of paper!
kitty
xx

sun is out,so am optimistically heading up there in a tick,we have got our AGM at one,whats the odds itll start p*****g down at ten to? hope some of you others are having dry days,and feet!
rach
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Hi to all fellow sufferers of the wet weather, and I fully sympathise with 'Duke', as I'm getting cabin fever and resorting to tidying my cupboards.  We live in Cornwall, where it has rained non-stop and very heavily for almost 3 weeks now.  The forecast tonight, Monday is for heavy rain tonight and tomorrow, and then very unsettled for the rest of the week with heavy rain and winds at the weekend.  My allotment is a war zone.  Beans only just produced flowers, potatoes blighted, pumpkins stems rotted or/and eaten by slugs.  Radishes like beetroots and beetroots like radishes.  All my pak choi seedlings which were in a container AND netted AND pelleted,  eaten by slugs.  Weeds a foot high, even after a quick strim last week.

Sigh, its my first allotment year - I worked so hard to clear and plant and just right now feel very down and disillusioned.   Is there any hope forme?

You want to be up here in the north west !!

4 days of sun in 2 months and 12 inches of rain !!!

It was 12 degrees C today at midday.August 11th !!!!!

Where's this Global Warming Gone ???

What a complete joke !!!!!!

Interesting thing global warming.
Volume of fresh water entering North Atlantic in last 19 years quadrupled.
Re-appearance of swirling whirlpools depicted on 16C navigation maps
25% drop in salinity of Northern Atlantic
More than 50% likelyhood of shutting down of North Atlantic Oscillation in next 100 years- If I were a real pessimist I'd note that its likely to shutdown within 20 years.
Just think what that will do for our climate.

I'm sooooooo fed up with all this rain :( :( :(
Ive spent this last two weeks stripping off the tiles, lathes and felt off my lived in house.  I got one dry day and managed to get the new felt on then it poured.
The rest of the time I lathed in the torrental rain. Tonight I have three buckets on the go, one in my bedroom, one in the kids room, and one in the kitchen, all filling one drip at a time  :'( :'( :'( great!
     Tomorrow I just know it will be a fun filled day of slating :'( :(