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  • Pabmusic
    Full Member
    • May 2011
    • 5537

    32 degrees again! No rain for days and water pressure is so low that the tank doesn't fill up overnight. It's a good job we have a well (it's mainly limestone soil).

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
      32 degrees again! No rain for days and water pressure is so low that the tank doesn't fill up overnight. It's a good job we have a well (it's mainly limestone soil).
      Do grape vines do well Pabs?

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      • Pabmusic
        Full Member
        • May 2011
        • 5537

        No - too hot continuously. No chance (at all, ever) of 'noble rot'. Grapes would just shrivel. Tropical fruits have very thick skins and high concentrations of sugar - hence, sweet and sickly (usually, anyway).

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        • Anna

          There's quite a lot of vinyards in Wales now - the Romans had quite extensive viniculture when they were here. Generally it's German varieties of grape.
          It didn't rain yesterday in the end, although there was some overnight. Today has been grey, dull, not particularly cold, just starting to drizzle now.
          It's funny about suddenly switching from salad to a cooked meal once the skies grow grey, I've done just the same, although I accept it's purely psychological, cold food give you the same energy but suddenly hot food seems more appetising!

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37636

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            There's quite a lot of vinyards in Wales now - the Romans had quite extensive viniculture when they were here. Generally it's German varieties of grape.
            It didn't rain yesterday in the end, although there was some overnight. Today has been grey, dull, not particularly cold, just starting to drizzle now.
            It's funny about suddenly switching from salad to a cooked meal once the skies grow grey, I've done just the same, although I accept it's purely psychological, cold food give you the same energy but suddenly hot food seems more appetising!
            And heats up the kitchen while being cooked!

            Wet weather has really set in here, with thick drizzle now falling, the temperature not rising higher than 12.5 C, and the cloud base intermittently at around 400 feet. The weather circulation has got itself into one of those periodic ruts which have become more the norm of late, grinding to a halt with a frontal system straddling us with insufficient wind to move it on. Blocking systems are only OK if the rain-producing systems are blocked elsewhere!

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            • marthe

              It was actually warm enough for short sleeves (though not shorts...yet). Tomorrow damp, cool weather is moving back in. Too bad I had to spend the best part of the day at the periodontist's office having my gums "scaled."

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              • Petrushka
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12242

                A miserable, grey, murky, cold day with some drizzly showers. The temperature gauge at the railway station read 14 degrees but the chill wind must have taken the real temperature down into single figures. Berghaus and heating well and truly on.
                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                  miserable, grey, murky
                  Just about sums up the weather here too... No rain after about 9am, and not cold (but humid), but nonetheless thoroughly depressing!
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • EdgeleyRob
                    Guest
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12180

                    All of a sudden it's November.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22116

                      Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                      All of a sudden it's November.
                      Been pretty good down here today - can't think it can last but we hope for not too much rain tomorrow.

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        As the day wore on. it became gradually more muggy etc, so much so that by the time I was back home, I had a rather bad asthmatic period. Not too bad today, hoping will be better......?
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37636

                          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                          As the day wore on. it became gradually more muggy etc, so much so that by the time I was back home, I had a rather bad asthmatic period. Not too bad today, hoping will be better......?
                          I too feel bunged up, just like the weather does! Actually the cloud is breaking up now, good time for dead-heading our sodden roses, but rather large cumulus is starting to develop, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get a thunderstorm or two at some point this afternoon or evening. Just as well I have nowhere I need to go!

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                          • Anna

                            Yesterday wasn't too bad. So far, as the day has gone on the weather here has improved, bits of blue now and sun, warm at 16.6° and the black clouds seem to have gone (there is a yellow rain warning from 2pm onwards so plenty of time still for the Heavens to open although the Met Office did say there was uncertainty as to where exactly would get it ...... ) Then it seems we may have a more settled weekend, I hope so as I have more plants to collect tomorrow.

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                            • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 9173

                              wet wet grey in the middle kingdom today - trust it brightens up generally tomorrow travelling to Eastbourne to visit niece so much easier to travel when it is dry!
                              According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37636

                                I should imagine it's raining hard over Caliban's way right now, as the London Eye has become almost invisible in rain from a very threatening cloud to the north of here, where just a few large rain spots are falling. Temperature now down from a peak of 17 C.

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