Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

Also, Cali, The General Chat Room, should be more used as well?

But only if you're not mentioning the weather Bbm.

Which you weren't

So, as you were!

[EdgeleyRob]

Also, Cali, The General Chat Room, should be more used as well?

Not on a Sunday night though BBM.

Baking hot day again today,a nice cool breeze this evening which is very welcome.

[Anna]

Yuk, Anna! Me no likey salad! Well not lettuce anyway. Went to some friends of ours, yesterday evening and they had salad and they know I dont like that!! But the rest of the food was very nice!

But BBM, what we wanted to know is (apart from the dreaded lettuce) what the salad consisted of that you no likey it! Or, was it just a green side salad?
Cooling down now, listening to the Prom, must water the vegs during the interval - I have a baby bean!!

[BBMmk2]

I, well, actually meant the lettuce! All the others I like.

[Petrushka]

Can't abide salad! Tomatoes are ok though.

Oppressively hot again tonight. Not complaining as I love it like this. It can go on as long as it likes as far as I'm concerned.

[Serial_Apologist]

Can't abide salad! Tomatoes are ok though.

Oppressively hot again tonight. Not complaining as I love it like this. It can go on as long as it likes as far as I'm concerned.

Extraordinary cloud formations when I went out for a quick walk around the block just before it got dark, suggesting possible high-level thunderstorms building up. Checking the radar signals on the BBC weather website, little pockets of rain had materialised during the preceding 3 hours, scattered all over the SE, though none has fallen here. I do wish these flats had a sprinkler in the garden equipment store. Last night I spent an hour watering the parched perennials and annuals - must have refilled the watering can from my bath tap at least 15 times!

[BBMmk2]

Continuingly to be yet another baking hot day today. And probably lasting into august as well! No let up(not that I am comp-laining!)

[Anna]

Extraordinary cloud formations when I went out for a quick walk around the block just before it got dark, suggesting possible high-level thunderstorms building up. Checking the radar signals on the BBC weather website, little pockets of rain had materialised during the preceding 3 hours, scattered all over the SE, though none has fallen here. I do wish these flats had a sprinkler in the garden equipment store. Last night I spent an hour watering the parched perennials and annuals - must have refilled the watering can from my bath tap at least 15 times!

I sat out last night and no clouds, very clear sky with a lovely golden waxing crescent moon and earlier, a colourful red and gold sunset.

It seems ridiculous not to have an outside tap, could you attach a hose to your kitchen tap and feed it out to the plants? As they are communal gardens who generally does the maintainence, grass cutting, planting, etc?

On topic, it got to 27° as forecast, it's been bearable but feels pretty humid and airless now, it's at this time of day that I start to droop slightly ........ I'm finding herbal or fruit teas far more refreshing in this weather than cold drinks.

[Serial_Apologist]

I sat out last night and no clouds, very clear sky with a lovely golden waxing crescent moon and earlier, a colourful red and gold sunset.

It seems ridiculous not to have an outside tap, could you attach a hose to your kitchen tap and feed it out to the plants? As they are communal gardens who generally does the maintainence, grass cutting, planting, etc?

On topic, it got to 27° as forecast, it's been bearable but feels pretty humid and airless now, it's at this time of day that I start to droop slightly ........ I'm finding herbal or fruit teas far more refreshing in this weather than cold drinks.

Hi Anna! I find lemon tea best - the lemon juice from a bottle, as opposed to "the real thing", I must admit!

Temperature outside has just reached the expected 28 C. Odd how the weather can change from day to day without any real shift in the overall pattern: gone is yesterday's pollution haze despite there being little air movement, the atmosphere being as clear as a bell here in London. The arrangements we have for the garden are that one team of four comes about once a week, complete with headgear, ear muffs and goggles, and does the grass cutting in the summer half of the year, and leaf clearance in the autumn in a fast, noisy, dust-raising industrial operation; then a chappie who actually knows about horticulture takes care of the shrubs, perennials and so forth in a separate arrangement. Before my ex-next doors took him on, there were literally no flower beds, just border shrubs and trees, and his contribution has made for a really beautiful garden. My own "contribution", if it could be so described, is as "garden liaison officer" for the residents' association, making sure everything about the garden is tickety boo, and regularly dead-heading the roses, of which there are about 30 in all, bush, climbing and floribunda types, some of them wonderfully scented. Unfortunately the first-described gardening team are only interested in keeping the grass as short as they possibly can, and turning up on every appointed date with their heavy plant, including 2 ride-on mowers which crack up the asphalt paths and either rut or compact the soil, so that the lawn is heavily moss-infested. But this arrangement has always been in force and there's little can be done about it until we obtain the freehold of the entire precinct, currently under negotation. One effect of the last grass cut is that the lawn is rapidly drying out, and will soon become a yellow semi-desert, interspersed with patches of weeds. Fortunately, it now turns out that there is a garden hose - one of the other tenants had forgotten it was in his garage, and he happened to know where the outside tap is, so I'm rigging it up for this evening, once the sun's down.

[salymap]

Mahlerei hs just emailed to say it's 33 degrees in Penshurst,Kent this arvo.

Feels like tha here too - very humid and sticky.

[EdgeleyRob]

Very warm indeed here,no complaints from me though.

[amateur51]

Lemon and ginger tea is my favourite in this weather, currently sweltering but truly delightful - Kilburn High Road was baking this afternoon when I went up on a cherry-raid - dark cherries are plentiful at the moment and just sweet enough & juicy.

Can this really be going to last until August, S_A?

[Nick Armstrong]

Can this really be going to last until August, S_A?

St Swithin's Day today, ams - so that takes us up to the August Bank Holiday weekend, by my reckoning!

[BBMmk2]

Oh my god!!!! Well we cannot complain! 29C tomorrow and we in Brighton!!

[Anna]

My own "contribution", if it could be so described, is as "garden liaison officer" for the residents' association, making sure everything about the garden is tickety boo, .......... it now turns out that there is a garden hose - one of the other tenants had forgotten it was in his garage, and he happened to know where the outside tap is, so I'm rigging it up for this evening, once the sun's down.

Gosh, what a lovely job, Garden Overseer - all the nice jobs like deadheading roses, planting containers and watering and none of the boring, heavy, work like digging, weeding, mulching and grasscutting! I've decided not to cut my grass (it was done about 18 days ago and hasn't grown too much) and let it conserve moisture and stay green (I only water vegs and containers)

Lemon and ginger tea is my favourite in this weather, currently sweltering but truly delightful - Kilburn High Road was baking this afternoon when I went up on a cherry-raid - dark cherries are plentiful at the moment and just sweet enough & juicy.

I'll have to try that, at the moment I've dandelion, fennel & ginger; mixed summer berries; echinacea and raspberry; peppermint and a box of green tea with various fruit flavours - although I like green tea I'm not so keen on these but as green tea is bursting with antioxidents I'll finish them. I've also been eating a lot of cherries. One benefit of this hot weather and living on lettuce and fruit is that I've effortlessly shed the extra pounds I put on over the winter by comfort eating! A further consequence is the expense of keeping cool - another pair of linen trousers and two flimsier tops have just had to be purchased!
Ontopic: Much fresher today, just over 24° and a gentle breeze.