YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[Anthony Darby]

Found my picture of Charles, a tuatara, perched on my arm, yesterday. I'll have to have it scanned though.

A very suitable name. R'evolutionary.

[mark smyth]

what was all the red white and blue for?  Thankfully I was out all day although Fermi and Will made me watch some

John I noticed you had the colours the wrong way

[Hoy]

what was all the red white and blue for?  Thankfully I was out all day although Fermi and Will made me watch some

John I noticed you had the colours the wrong way

Red, white and blue are the Norwegian colours you know! Maybe somebody celebrated something somewhere

[SusanS]

It's raining 

never thought I would post this in the happy thread 

[angie]

It's raining 

never thought I would post this in the happy thread 

Hope it arrives here soon

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

We're forecast with 25mm rain per hour today with the possibility of more tornadoes!

[Maren]

Anthony,
may I ask, why did you move to New Zealand? was it for the weather, home from home

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony,
may I ask, why did you move to New Zealand? was it for the weather, home from home

It's the temperature of the rain Maren. Here I am still in T-shirt, sandals and shorts. In Scotland the rain is cold or very cold. Very strange to see people similarly dressed but wearing knitted hats. The type that ties under the chin with or without the bobble on the top!

[Lesley Cox]

It's raining here too, not so heavily, and between bouts of dog and frizzle, for the last several days. We've had maybe half a dozen hours of sunshine in the last two weeks. And certainly no shorts and t-shirts, for me anyway, thermals, long trousers, jerseys and jackets, raincoats and scarfs. Hats and gloves too. The wettest summer I can remember and autumn is more of the same. Only one frost so far, the day last week when we had sun to follow.

[angie]

It's now raining here. Saves me having to get the hosepipe out tomorrow

Angie

[art600]

It rained overnight - not a lot and I am hoping for more.

[Tony Willis]

It has been raining here,with a short break yesterday,since 5pm on Thursday. I remember last year when we had a two month drought at this time it then rained nearly everyday until the end of March this year.

[Anthony Darby]

Glorious here this morning. First time I've noticed that there are hundreds of skinks on the decorative walls at the side of the "reserve" - well, two football pitches a few hundred metres north our our house. They look like the introduced rainbow skink (Lampropholis delicata), an egg-laying species from Australia.

[Ragged Robin]

This is how my bone dry garden feels now it's raining    

[Lesley Cox]

We have a lot of little brown skinks here, native I think, with fine stripes along their bodoes. And yes, hundreds I would suppose. Unfortunately Teddy counts them as fair game and I have to rescue many.