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Jack Knave

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« Reply #125 on: February 27, 2017, 05:34:00 PM »
Within minutes of me posting about the snow falling, the sun came out and the temperature went up enough to give us a pleasantly warm afternoon, INCREDIBLE!
It's the sign of the end of the world so get reading your Bible, Floo, and pray to God It'll forgive you all your bad words against It.  ;D

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« Reply #126 on: March 05, 2017, 11:08:14 AM »
It is snowing, although it doesn't feel cold enough!

Doesn't it always warm a little before it snows?

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« Reply #127 on: March 05, 2017, 12:38:07 PM »
Yes it does, my mum sasy,;"Too cold to snow today". Has to soften up a bit before falling.
Bright and cold here.
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« Reply #128 on: March 05, 2017, 02:39:29 PM »
It is snowing, although it doesn't feel cold enough!

Floo, I meant to say, have I told you before that Essex is the driest, (has the least rainfall),county in the U K, only I can't quite r ember if I had said how little rain we have here in driest of the dry Essex before, :P :P, and I thought it might be a good idea to remind you how little rainfall we get here, in Essex, have to go now, trying to get the sun loungers out of the shed.

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« Reply #129 on: March 15, 2017, 09:45:03 AM »
In spite of a stiff breeze it is quite warm today. :)
might I suggest dabbing it with some cold water Floo ;)

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« Reply #130 on: March 15, 2017, 04:03:05 PM »
Just come back from a few days in East Sussex & the weather was glorious. Still is today.
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« Reply #131 on: March 15, 2017, 04:06:56 PM »
 :D I wished we had taken bathring stuff as it was so nice and warm. You can never tell how the weather will be but in future iwill keep some in car just in case.
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« Reply #132 on: March 15, 2017, 04:21:41 PM »
Wellies scarves & gloves in car as well as swimming costumes from now on.
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« Reply #133 on: March 16, 2017, 04:33:14 PM »
Wellies scarves & gloves in car as well as swimming costumes from now on.
sounds interesting, what time can you come round? :o

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« Reply #134 on: March 24, 2017, 04:15:30 PM »
High pressure on the way, should be fine for most.    (Brought to you by Wigginhall productions, for a subscription send large cheque to WigginweatherInc., PO 372,  Kaho'olawe, Hawaii.)
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« Reply #135 on: March 24, 2017, 07:19:13 PM »
sounds interesting, what time can you come round? :o

What you offering Sir? Snorkels extra.
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« Reply #136 on: March 30, 2017, 08:31:35 AM »
We had a frost this morning, but this afternoon is very sunny and quite warm. :)

Floo, is there any chance you could help us Essex lot, only we're running short of sun block down here and you must have some up there that wont be needed?

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« Reply #137 on: March 30, 2017, 07:01:46 PM »
Well, I'm is SW France at the moment. I arrived yesterday to clear skies and 21 degrees, Today has been glorious.

I was really looking forward to the weekend - but then saw the meteo - rain, rain, followed by more rain. It will be fine again next week - when I have returned to England ...
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« Reply #138 on: April 02, 2017, 07:02:44 PM »
It is very sunny today with a bit of a breeze, which is drying my washing nicely. :)

We only need to put our washing out for about ten minutes or so at the moment, that's only if you can bear the heat outside for that long.

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« Reply #139 on: May 02, 2017, 05:06:12 PM »
It is a lovely sunny day, hardly any wind. I have got my washing dry in record time.  :)

Could you send some wat___r

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« Reply #140 on: May 03, 2017, 03:32:48 PM »
I noticed on our allotment site that some potatoes and vines look frost-damaged, the spuds in particular completely blasted.   Apparently, French and English vineyards have also been hit badly, with temperatures going down to -6 last week.   

People have been planting spuds earlier and earlier, it used to be Good Friday traditionally, but you see people planting them in February, expecting a mild winter and spring.   
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« Reply #141 on: May 03, 2017, 03:38:10 PM »
I am so cold, and I can't put the heating on as I'm waiting for a new oil tank and don't want to need a delivery before it's here. But it's been so dry too.

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« Reply #142 on: May 03, 2017, 03:46:13 PM »
More here about the vineyards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39792774

There are two local to me, although one does have the cushion of also being a wedding venue.

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« Reply #143 on: May 08, 2017, 02:11:27 PM »
Dry, dry, dry.   We are haring round to the allotment, all hosepipes throbbing like the best gristle.*   Still, many plants are surviving pretty well.   It amazes me how tough things like lettuce are - drought, frost, it just bashes on like a tank.   We have an angelica which is magnificent right now, tall with massive seed-heads, doesn't  seem to need water.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle
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« Reply #144 on: May 29, 2017, 02:23:40 PM »
The weather is as one would expect on a bank holiday Monday, WET!

Sorry to hear it Floo.

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« Reply #145 on: June 10, 2017, 05:51:59 PM »
We have had some heavy rain over night, and into the first part of this morning, which might have helped the garden a bit. It has been a remarkably dry year for our neck of the woods, although we have already seen more rain this month than in the winter! Our youngest girl and her family were going camping in Anglesey this weekend, but decided against it as the weather there is supposed to be very wet and quite windy.

Sorry about the rain Floo, I have been keeping away from travelling anywhere westward in the UK, so this time it's not me causing precipitation in your region.

Every holiday I've taken travelling anywhere westward in the U K I've been deluged with rain or sleet, much as the west is beautiful country
we no longer bother with it, we can be in France in about a couple of hours from here so there's very little to draw us to the west of the country.

If you ever have a drought there I'm prepared to make an exception and travel westward, for a small fee, and just the missus and I travelling in that direction with every certainty will break any drought.

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« Reply #146 on: June 10, 2017, 06:22:28 PM »
It has been a perfect day weather-wise here.  Enough sun &strong breeze to dry washing in no time but I did mine very early and dried it indoors because I went to work today (do one Sat in four).

It's still bright and sunny, pleasantly warm & I feel mellow. Long may it continue.
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« Reply #147 on: June 12, 2017, 07:06:25 PM »
It has been a perfect day weather-wise here.  Enough sun &strong breeze to dry washing in no time but I did mine very early and dried it indoors because I went to work today (do one Sat in four).

It's still bright and sunny, pleasantly warm & I feel mellow. Long may it continue.

Seriously Rob, every time we've taken a holiday in the westward parts of this isle, we've been deluged with all sorts of rain and sleet.

One year there was a country wide drought including the west country, there were stand pipes everywhere and as we were beginning to approach our destination the water was flooding the sides of the roads water was splashing everywhere, I reckon someone has put a curse on us, anyway it wouldn't be much different if someone had.

Another year we had a week there it rained for most of the time we were there other than four hours dry time on one day.

The last time it was very unwelcoming an overcast for a couple of days then it started to throw down hailstones to about two inches thick, we took a vote and all came home on the third day.

Much as the west is a beautiful place you'd have a job to drag me anywhere near there ever again, I can live quite well without so much wet weather; oh yes, as we went around the M25 north travelling eastwards, returning from that last time visit, the sun broke out and by the time we arrived home it was blazing hot.

Beautiful as it is in the west, you are welcome to my share of it; we do laugh about it now and offer our drought breaking expertise to all those living in the west, if it's ever needed and of course there would have to be a small fee involved; all of the above is the absolute truth, we can hardly believe it ourselves.

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« Reply #148 on: June 17, 2017, 01:37:20 PM »
It is really hot today, in the high 20s, too hot for my comfort. Still I did get the washing dry within an hour.
How? Did you hang it up in front of you and talk at it for 60 minutes?
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« Reply #149 on: June 18, 2017, 06:37:00 PM »
OK, that's way more than enough of this nonsense now - some cloud, a fall of 10° or so and a really good shower would be great, thanks.
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