weather - summer 2011

[arisaema]

Summer... what summer?

[Lesley Cox]

...and I was going to offer you a Bud light when you come over here.........well you can find your own watered down beer in Devon now.

That shouldn't be difficult Alan. If what David says about the Devon weather is right, every time he has a pint there will be an inch of rain falling into it - if he has the wet weather gear to sit in, outside.

[Anthony Darby]

98 degrees F (36.7 C) when I came through town 15 minutes ago. Can't remember when we last had rain. Sherba and I were rejoicing this morning because it's supposed to drop to 78 degrees next week. Air Conditioning OFF....Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!
I don't worry about greenhouse shading......don't even worry about a greenhouse. Could never cool it sufficiently in summer and it would cost a fortune to heat in winter. Oh for a Manchester summer again.

...... and a cool pint of Boddies, and then another..........

Notice the word "cool". I had a half litre (oh for a pint) of Guinness in a bar in Howick last weekend. It was chilled! Argggghhh! I have a bottled of "Black Sheep" for the weekend and it will not be going within a yard of the fridge!

[Anthony Darby]

Lesley was commenting on snow. Here's snow. The idiot on the van is supposed to be packing our worldly goods and loading them into a shipping container. The port authorities refused to release the containers so our stuff was loaded into several of these wee vans. Needless to say, several items, including our inadequately wrapped leather suite, were damaged due to rubbing up against the container sides! I would NOT recommend Anglopacific. They refuse to pay repair costs for my Aunt's barometer, which was damaged, because it wasn't listed! It was their job to list items. According to their list they didn't pack any photo albums either, yet 22 were shipped! How our piano arrived unscathed I don't know, because it left our house late on a Friday night unwrapped, yet they had promised to build a wooden crate around it before it left the house!

[Lesley Cox]

You're in the wrong city Anthony. Guinness down here is NEVER chilled, nor any of the imported beers which Roger frequently drinks, except of course Australians. I doubt if an American beer could be found in Dunedin.

This morning's snow was gone by 9am but I see a good thick coating on the back hills, Lammerlaws and Lammermoors.

[rob krejzl]

I doubt if an American beer could be found in Dunedin.

Lesley,

Not all American beers are beyond the pale ( ). Try searching out steam lagers etc..

[David Nicholson]

I see that the summer we didn't have has now turned into autumn with howling gales and heavy rain over the last two days (and I've lost my first fence panel of the year!). A "window" today with just wind and little rain, with another onslaught due on Thursday.

[arisaema]

These were empty last Friday...

[mark smyth]

David I think that was the remains of the hurricane that recently went up the east side of the US

[Maggi Young]

These were empty last Friday...

That's a lot of water....... I haven't enjoyed this season much at all.........

[mark smyth]

Look what the wind did to my birch tree

[mark smyth]

Many of the leaves on the right have been knocked off by yesterdays west wind

[angie]

My Begonia hanging baskets were looking good till we got that gale yesterday. This year I can count on one hand the amount of times I could sit at my pond a watch my fish, half the time I just had to throw the fishfood in and leave. Well I have solved the problem, well two problems really. I wont have to worry about the heron eating my fish and now I have somewhere dry and wind free. Only one big problem I had to move my plunge beds.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

Wow! What a great idea.......you've got to have some plan to beat the Aberdeen weather!

[David Nicholson]

If you get the bacon sarnies on the go Angie you could make make a fortune from fishing day tickets