Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

It's 24.3° here, thank goodness I was up so early (6.00am!) and accomplished necessary outside jobs this morning. Hope everyone else has had a fine, sunny, summery day and BBM had an enjoyable picnic. The rays got too burning to sit out in the sun (although I noticed a neighbour asleep on a lounger!) so it'll be nice later to sit outside and watch the sun go down and then the bats swooping.
I got fraught during the rugby and decided to clean the kitchen windows to take my mind off it - I notice they've dried smeary and need doing again.
Got some very plump jumbo prawns for basis of salad tonight but unfortunately have nearly finished all the strawbs (bring on the raspberries - they are my favourites)

Sounds like a plan, Anna - eating outside as the sun goes down at this time of year is a real treat, I agree. I've just been invited to a barbecue tomorrow evening, after going to local indie cinema for a showing of the Globe Theatre's all-male production of Twelfth Night - what a treat! I must try to get a bottle of rosé into the fridge for tomorrow.

Top tip: I've discovered that you can use two medium-sized used jiffy bags to keep a chilled bottle of wine cool for quite a while (a couple of hours last week - still nicely chilled) - just slide your bottle into one jiffy bag and slide the other one over the top. It'll keep the bottle pretty cold, and protect it from a sudden sharp knock in transit.

[Petrushka]

Top tip: I've discovered that you can use two medium-sized used jiffy bags to keep a chilled bottle of wine cool for quite a while (a couple of hours last week - still nicely chilled) - just slide your bottle into one jiffy bag and slide the other one over the top. It'll keep the bottle pretty cold, and protect it from a sudden sharp knock in transit.

All that money we've wasted om buying proper wine coolers!

[amateur51]

All that money we've wasted om buying proper wine coolers!

Me too, Pet, hence my delight & keenness to spread the message

[Serial_Apologist]

Sounds like a plan, Anna - eating outside as the sun goes down at this time of year is a real treat, I agree. I've just been invited to a barbecue tomorrow evening, after going to local indie cinema for a showing of the Globe Theatre's all-male production of Twelfth Night - what a treat! I must try to get a bottle of rosé into the fridge for tomorrow.

Top tip: I've discovered that you can use two medium-sized used jiffy bags to keep a chilled bottle of wine cool for quite a while (a couple of hours last week - still nicely chilled) - just slide your bottle into one jiffy bag and slide the other one over the top. It'll keep the bottle pretty cold, and protect it from a sudden sharp knock in transit.

The mosquitoes come thick and fast as evenings progress here - and I've never ever seen such large ones! Where on earth they come from is beyond me - literally, as happens, because I can't think of a pond, marsh or pool within half a mile where they would breed. Last place I lived that was the problem, until someone cleverly thought of putting a thin layer of some oil product on the water's surface which broke the surface tension, sending all those unlucky mosquito larvae to the bottom. Result: problem solved for several years. But hereabouts it rules out soporific evenings out on the veranda, or its equivalent.

Thanks very much for the jiffy bag idea, Ams. Having accumulated a considerable pile in different sizes, must give it a try next time.

[BBMmk2]

What a gorgeous day today!

[mangerton]

Had a lovely daytoday. We didnt go to Wakehurst Place, but to ~Sheffield parki and Gardens. Strongly reccomended, and just by Bluebell Railway as well!

Yes, it's a lovely part of the country. You didn't find a mobile phone by any chance? I was there two weeks ago, and it fell out of my shirt pocket on to the trackside when I was leaning out of the window taking photographs.

[EdgeleyRob]

What a gorgeous day today!

Yep,absolute scorcher here too.
Two weeks of this apparently,perhaps we need to rename the thread for a short while.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yep,absolute scorcher here too.
Two weeks of this apparently,perhaps we need to rename the thread for a short while.

Steamy Weather?

[gurnemanz]

Yep,absolute scorcher here too.
Two weeks of this apparently,perhaps we need to rename the thread for a short while.

There may be a thunder storm, of course.

[EdgeleyRob]

Maybe just call it Weather.

[Petrushka]

Yep,absolute scorcher here too.
Two weeks of this apparently,perhaps we need to rename the thread for a short while.

That'll really put the mockers on this great weather; once we re-name the thread the rains will come again! This reminds me of the unforgettable long, hot summer of 1976 when the Government appointed a Minister of Drought. After weeks and weeks of blazing sunshine the heavens opened and that was the end of that. Incidentally, it was a sobering experience to realise that no-one in our office is old enough to remember that wonderful summer. I was 22 just as it started and I will never forget it. Some in the office weren't even born.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That'll really put the mockers on this great weather; once we re-name the thread the rains will come again! This reminds me of the unforgettable long, hot summer of 1976 when the Government appointed a Minister of Drought. After weeks and weeks of blazing sunshine the heavens opened and that was the end of that. Incidentally, it was a sobering experience to realise that no-one in our office is old enough to remember that wonderful summer. I was 22 just as it started and I will never forget it. Some in the office weren't even born.

I was 16, and had just finished my "O"-Levels, so the Summer holiday was even longer than usual - Sibelius on a portable cassette player outside in the garden: and the Ladybirds! Millions of them!

[BBMmk2]

Any time we have the weather forecasters predoctoing a season, it always seems to be the opposite!

[salymap]

The trouble with open windows is that the air at the moment smells horrible, petrol, London murk coming from miles away.
Visitors from deepest Devon won't like it, neither do I.

[gurnemanz]

Lacklustre runner beans have perked up. One plucky specimen has nearly reached the top of its stick.