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After the driest Spring since Newcastle won t'cup, it's time for some...
Only 2.1mm since yesterday morning. We drained the water butt, in anticipation of a decent amount of rain to refill it, onto the flowers.
Today's carrying on the good weather from yesterday when it was time to feed the trees with a new mixture. A measured dose every two weeks, so each Full moon and then again on the New moon it'll go towards giving them a boost and, hopefully, a better apple yield than last year...assuming those damned jackdaws don't flock around them!
A rare sighting of Mrs Mouse scurrying along a log border looking for breakfast was reassuring that she survived the winter, snug 'neath an old post hole i covered with rocks and moss.
More rain later, so hi-ho, off i go to dig-dig a new plot for random seedlings. sshhh...i wasn't here.
A rare sighting of Mrs Mouse scurrying along a log border looking for breakfast was reassuring that she survived the winter, snug 'neath an old post hole i covered with rocks and moss.
More rain later, so hi-ho, off i go to dig-dig a new plot for random seedlings. sshhh...i wasn't here.
Too humid to sleep so...Awake before the dawn, this tune popped in to my head from outta the clear blue sky...I don't know why.
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction”
(Blake is Boss.)
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction”
(Blake is Boss.)
Full moon fever strikes again. A red day, a hot day, 'ere the dawn rises. Up an' at it afore blackbird caught the early worm as now's a good time to feed the trees...if you're a Lunarian and plant by the moon cycle - which i do. Don't knock it til you try it. It works for me on 'The Bali Principle', as explained by Douglas Adams in 'The Salmon of Doubt' and if you still don't know where i'm coming from, GO Ogle.
It must be the heat. Hot enough to boil bacon in your underwear, it is. I've a couple o' rashers bubbling as we speak; an odd sensation...i think i like it.
It must be the heat. Hot enough to boil bacon in your underwear, it is. I've a couple o' rashers bubbling as we speak; an odd sensation...i think i like it.
A spot o' rain today will do the garden good but put a crimp in my style: I got the...
A Bank Holiday w/end so the weather's gonna be cloudy, obviously. A touch o' rain and high winds thrown in for laughs. Enjoy. A good year for apples, though. All they need now is a little Hocus Pocus to Focus on t'harvest to come...
Glorious weather set fair the Glorious Twelfth. Mid-August already:
Now the dog days are at an end it's six weeks to harvest and the weather man reckons fine weather ahead, so make the most of it afore the Fall wind blows fell once more.
Now the dog days are at an end it's six weeks to harvest and the weather man reckons fine weather ahead, so make the most of it afore the Fall wind blows fell once more.
Bonus track of the legendary songbird, Sandy Denny, in a rare recording of her on stage performing 'Matty Groves' with F.port Convention.
Not the whole country is england gods own country has several different bank holidays in the year
Thanks. I'd forgotten that!
I'm only happy when it rains after a Summer of heat and dust with the promise of a fine crop of apples to harvest soon.
No matter what the final tally of this summer's temperature, it easily beat the summer of '76, which featured 16 days of temperatures over 32 degrees while this year had only nine. But this summer remained consistently warm for longer. A study at the University of Reading compared the two, showing the former was restricted to a much smaller area of Europe while the rest was much cooler than normal; and while the drought of '76 extended over the UK and NW Europe, the Med was unusually wet.
Notably, this years Spring was much warmer than '76, with a substantial drought, while the previous winters weren't so dry as 1974 and '75 that led to the water shortage of 1976. This years warmth was driven by high pressure systems, very warm seas and imported heat from Europe - with the inescapable fact of the long-term change in climate, despite denials from some eejits who still get confused between weather and climate changes. The five warmest summers in the UK have all occurred since 2000, and the summer of '76 is no longer even in the top five warmest.
Then again, the music will never be better than during that Golden Age...
Notably, this years Spring was much warmer than '76, with a substantial drought, while the previous winters weren't so dry as 1974 and '75 that led to the water shortage of 1976. This years warmth was driven by high pressure systems, very warm seas and imported heat from Europe - with the inescapable fact of the long-term change in climate, despite denials from some eejits who still get confused between weather and climate changes. The five warmest summers in the UK have all occurred since 2000, and the summer of '76 is no longer even in the top five warmest.
Then again, the music will never be better than during that Golden Age...