Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Just like over this side pof the pond to Marthe!

I hope it will be ok today, because, we are going to Harchlands(aNational Trust property whcih has a very good collection of musical intrsuments, whcih should be rather interesting!)

[marthe]

BBM, good luck with the weather for your visit to Harchlands. What sort of instruments do they have in the collection? Brass or all sorts? Another glorious day here in RI. Time for me to go outside and do some gardening, hedge trimming actually. The privet has become unruly and needs a bit of taming.

[vinteuil]

BBM, good luck with the weather for your visit to Harchlands. What sort of instruments do they have in the collection? .

Hatchlands is the home of the Cobbe Collection of interesting early keyboard instruments -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchlands_Park

https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/

[Nick Armstrong]

BBM, good luck with the weather for your visit to Harchlands. What sort of instruments do they have in the collection? Brass or all sorts?

You may not have been able to find "Harchlands" - here is the website of "Hatchlands"

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hatchlands-park/

EDIT: I see Vindepays laid his cloak over the muddy typographical puddle for you first... Typical, gent that he is

[Serial_Apologist]

You may not have been able to find "Harchlands" - here is the website of "Hatchlands"

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hatchlands-park/

EDIT: I see Vindepays laid his cloak over the muddy typographical puddle for you first... Typical, gent that he is

Isn't it Harchlands that has that collection of ancient kazoos?

(Only joking, )

[salymap]

Oh I missed that one. The best collection of early keyboard instruments I have visited [several times] is Finchcocks in Kent, home of Richard Burnett.

Well worth a visit also Bbm. Afternoon all........

[Anna]

I was up at 2am this morning, hanging out of the window, hoping to see the Perseids ....... but although facing East I couldn't hang out far enough in order to veer towards the North enough. I really should have gone outside but didn't want to worry the neighbours! Maybe some time after midnight is best, I know they finish around 3am each night. I think tonight is the last chance of viewing?

Sunday morning was the most tremendous thunder, lightening and monsoon, haven't had a proper storm for ages. Today quite uncomfortably muggy, tomorrow we are promised huge amounts of rain and strong winds. Does anyone feel the year is coming to an end too soon and we'll all be impossibly gloomy during the Winter due to lack of rays? My rocket is shooting up, I think I can harvest some next week.

[salymap]

" My rocket is shooting up " just after talk of the skies. Need a cupof tea, thought Anna had joined the space race.

Yes, very depressing to think of Autumn, a season I usually enjoy, as we have had no proper Summer.

[cloughie]

I was up at 2am this morning, hanging out of the window, hoping to see the Perseids ....... but although facing East I couldn't hang out far enough in order to veer towards the North enough. I really should have gone outside but didn't want to worry the neighbours! Maybe some time after midnight is best, I know they finish around 3am each night. I think tonight is the last chance of viewing?

Sunday morning was the most tremendous thunder, lightening and monsoon, haven't had a proper storm for ages. Today quite uncomfortably muggy, tomorrow we are promised huge amounts of rain and strong winds. Does anyone feel the year is coming to an end too soon and we'll all be impossibly gloomy during the Winter due to lack of rays? My rocket is shooting up, I think I can harvest some next week.

September will be fantastic - soon as the schools go back!

[Anna]

Yes, very depressing to think of Autumn, a season I usually enjoy, as we have had no proper Summer.

I usually love Autumn as well, mellow mists and fruitfulness and all that. I know I've never had a heavier crop on my little apple tree and also have never seen the brambles so laden with blossoms - what a pity I don't make apple and blackberry pies! I'd be tempted to make bramble jam, but I don't eat jam either! Is it possible to make chutney with eating apples I wonder?

September will be fantastic - soon as the schools go back!

Often seems to be the case cloughie, that we get an Indian Summer but the best weather I can remember so far this year was last two weeks of March when it was absolutely beautiful (I was down in Sussex)

[salymap]

Anna, lucky you with lots of apples. My very big Bramley apple tree lost all the blossom in a very cold, windy spell earlier.

I need a strong arm to help me get to the bottom of the garden but, from the kitchen window, can't see a single apple. So no neighbours from the lane at the bottom of my garden knocking this year to ask if they may pick some up from the verge the other side of my high fence. I'm usually very popular when the apples are ready and last year someone even gave me a boiled fruit cake - it was delicious.

[Serial_Apologist]

what a pity I don't make apple and blackberry pies! I'd be tempted to make bramble jam, but I don't eat jam either!

Why ever not, Anna - seeing as you are such a natural in the kitchen? All that freebie Vitamin C going to waste!

[Anna]

Why ever not, Anna - seeing as you are such a natural in the kitchen? All that freebie Vitamin C going to waste!

I don't have a very sweet tooth, I prefer to have cheese rather than a pudding. However, I'll probably cook some apples and blackberries and have with natural yoghurt for brekkie, which will be yummy and eat as much as I can raw but leave plenty on the tree for the birds to nibble during the winter, the blackbirds love them.

[Lateralthinking1]

Today quite uncomfortably muggy

I cannot stand this muggy weather.

Sweat is pouring off me and my head feels like it is under a ten ton weight.

It's very unpleasant!

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't have a very sweet tooth, I prefer to have cheese rather than a pudding.

You're very lucky, if I may say so, Anna. Unlike in my case, presumably your elders and betters never plied you with sweet things as a child.