WIND!

Auntieflo, Phoenix and I are the neighbours!

Well, the sun is shining this morning and all is calm again. Here in my bit of Norfolk we did have some rain (and wind), but DH has still been shouting at the tv forecasters talking about all the rain when in the east we really didn’t get very much. It’s still bone dry dust under the bigger shrubs. I’m not grumbling - but he is!

I never thought that I`d be so grateful for rain in July. It`s been a lovely day today, very windy, much cooler, and not a glimmer of that roasting hot sun! In 1976 we worked all through the heatwave, went on holiday to S.Devon in September with 5 kiddies for a week, and the rain arrived around mid-day on the Thursday, a couple more days of sun would have been nice then.

I was enjoying the heat and hoping it could last to end of school hols at least

Well I ll go against th3 trend sorry but I m not enjoying it now, yes it was lovely to have about half an inch of rain yesterday and today and the gardens and me said thank you but the wind is gale force and really scary the tall plants my sunflower that I ve been looking after as my friend in Netherlands sent me the seeds and it’s just ready to bust is now bent double I m scared about the tree opposite which looks as if it could come down and I ve been in the house not spoken to a soul all weekend
come back summer

It's not being seen naked that bothers most of us but by whom we are seen naked. Many of us are relaxed about using a nude beach where no one knows us. But in front neighbours, friends or family the rules are different!

Like some of the other posters phoenix I too thought your shouty capitals were a reference to a different sort of wind. I had imagined a violent eruption from your "terrARSE'...perhaps that's what did happen and that is the reason your garden furniture got blown about

My father's favourite phrase was. "Never do anything that will frighten the horses"

Amazing thunderstorm here yesterday morning, really loud bangs and crashes!

Now it can't seem to make it's mind up, bit of rain, bit of sun, some wind (the weather sort!)

Like others, our hanging basket has taken a battering, the area outside the front door is spattered with bright scarlet geranium petals.

Really should go out onto what Mr P refers to as the "terrARSE" (sic) and put the garden furniture back where it should be!

Ive got to fly from England to N Ireland on Tuesday. I hope it improves.

Oh bliss, oh joy! It makes me want to dance naked in the garden! (But mustn't frighten the wildlife)

Nor me!?

OoRoo

Inishowen when the rains came in 1976 we were on the last night of our summer holiday at a caravan park in Suffolk. The wellie boots had been left in the car and the whole area was flooded. Great fun getting everything from the caravan to the car park with 4 children thinking it all very funny.

I live at the seaside and currently have a house-guest who is appearing in a play at the local theatre. Because of rehearsals he has been unable to enjoy the weather and as his character is wearing a greatcoat he has sweltered in the heat. He was so looking forward to having a day off today poor lad.
I, on the other hand, am loving the rain.

staying in!

It has been very windy with heavy rain here - and apparently there is a tree down on the main road, so we are saying in today.
I'm feeling sorry for any campers out there!

I have not seen any rain yet- apparently it rained during the night but it was not much judging from the ground this morning. I have never wanted to see rain in my life before- sad.

Joy not to have to water the garden last night or tonight. I have a large vegetable patch but also veg planted wherever there was a space in the flower beds. It has been such hard work.
I was pregnant in Summer 1976, baby due October , with an 18 month toddler, upstairs flat, no garden. I used to sit her in a bucket of water on the front steps and she had a fine splashy time. My neighbour, also pregnant and with a toddler, and I took it in turns during the week to wheel the little ones in a double pushchair to the park play centre. I didn’t mind the heat then but simply hate it now.

Enjoyed the wind, welcomed the rain from the first drops on flagstones to the torrent. Even thought of a long ago dance in rain and wet ferns.
But the heat kept me indoors, I haven’t been shopping so need a break in the rain to take my trolley up the road.
I guess the change in the weather neatly illustrates the Buddhist doctrine of suffering.

Also relieved to see and feel the rain. Bought a rain butt a week ago and so thrilled to see water in it. How sad am I? But no doubt we will all be moaning about the rain if it lasts more than a couple of days. Mind you, the pictures in my head conjured up by some of these posts of doo-lally ladies in various stages of undress cavorting in their gardens, makes me think we better have some sun again soon!

Steady, cool, beautiful rain here today and I'm feeling better than I have in weeks. The headache and lethargy have gone and I've actually baked, cooked and cleaned already this morning! Sheer bliss!

As we have few good summers here in NE Scotland, I'm sorry that it has turned cooler. Having said that, I know we need rain, and that the temperatures in some parts have been much less tolerable, but . . . the joy of the air being quie warm, even when the sun isn't beating down, is such a novelty that I wish it could last longer.

I've loved and coped with the 'hot-wave' as I heard it called the other morning! When the weather turned two nights ago it has completely shattered my lovely garden. Three 7 ft high sunflowers ...gone....my hanging baskets .... decimated!! It's lovely and cool now but oh my lovely garden!

But why couldn't this have happened in the week. I've sat in an office for 5 days and now the weekend is rubbish. Just feeling a bit peeved.

I remember 1976 when the rain came all the neighbours ran out of their houses.

I'm with you, phoenix - loving the wind, and the rain - such a relief after that hideous heat and dust.

I'm about to endure the other kind of wind, though, sharing a tent with flatulent DD, her partner and my 2-YO grandson....and none of them hold back....