Stormy Weather

[salymap]

Amazing that you got up at 4am to see the wedding ,marthe. Most on the MBs just moan about it, they are of course men I watched some on the royal site you found for me,thanks. Glad your weather has improved. Chilly wind here today but sunny.

[antongould]

Personally I haven't moaned about it simply ignored it, as amazingly has Lady Gould - not one frock silly or otherwise has she seen!

[Chris Newman]

I am off for a walk. My neighbour has just poured what smell like half a gallon of lighting fluid on his barbeque and filled the house with fumes. Windows shut and I'm off. A quick pint is called for.

[salymap]

Sounds too dangerous to leave Chris. Windy today, how near is it? Have a drink for me to celebrate the royal wedding. [Runs for cover].

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't BELIEEEEVE IT!!! - the first roses here are about to flower, and it's not even May, let alone June, which is when they always used to bloom in the good old days.

[salymap]

Morning Stormyweatherites, back to reality. No royal weddings, mad hysteria, over hyping etc. Just another day with all its joys and problems.

Sunny but rather too cold here. Not rose weather yet.

[amateur51]

Morning Stormyweatherites, back to reality. No royal weddings, mad hysteria, over hyping etc. Just another day with all its joys and problems.

Sunny but rather too cold here. Not rose weather yet.

My roses have been gently blooming for over 10 days here in downtown Willesden Green, North London, so beloved of Mandryka The cherry blossom is over, the sparrers are in full feeding mode (chicks?) on the seed feeder, and the male pigeons need a regular dousing with cold water, I think - not a pretty sight

Oh and my strawberry plants are in full flower, straining tall to meet the sun & any passing insects

[greenilex]

Mornin' all.

I have a totally wild wild rose looping up through my plum forest and it's just coming out... it was originally the stock of a "Peace" rose planted too close to the tree many years ago.

Dry and warmish here, with intermittent sun.

[salymap]

I'm catching up. Since this morning I have one beautiful yellow rose out in a sheltered corner. It is a cutting from a neighbour's rose. When she died the new people paved her front garden so I nipped in and took some cuttings from her lovely rose bed before it disappeared. They have never been this early though.

[marthe]

Roses are still at least a month to six weeks away here! We're still enjoying spring bulbs and early-flowering perennials. Wedding fever has died down over here but at was at full throttle yesterday. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13232038.
@saly: I'm glad you saved your neighbor's rose! My sister has taken slips from roses and been quite successful in growing-on the rooted cuttings.
@Chris: there's nothing worse than the smell (and taste) of lighter fluid. My husband, who is the BBQ enthusiast, won't use the stuff, nor charcoal briquettes. He uses real charcoal or even makes a wood fire from apple branches that have come from one of our trees.

[salymap]

Good morning all. Much too windy for me, stops me from sitting in the garden, and several plants look as they usually look in late summer. They have flowered or come out too early and are now suffering from drought and high winds. It's a very odd spring here.

[Mahlerei]

Morning sal

Haven't been out yet but can see it's quiet gusty. Buns don't like the wind either and usually sulk under the BBQ.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

the middle kingdom has glorious sunshine and a nippy wind so my secluded yard is quite idyllic this morning ...erm me roses are out cos they were when i bought them from a market stall and then planted them in the pot ..... the almond blossom tree has been and gone as an object of supernatural beauty and is now just naturally booful .... getting the yard into a pristine [tidy, hosed and dusted] and planted condition [pots, baskets etc] is one of the wonderful benchmarks of my ageing ...well i made another spring!

[salymap]

Calam, wish I had a small secluded garden instead of a rather large one, full of weeds and overgrown trees.

Years ago, people could sell off large gardens and make money from them. Wouldn't be allowed and really wouldn't like it so.......stuck with what I've got which could be worse.

Still gales blowing by the sound of wind down the chimney. Have a nice day.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Salymap a pleasant day to you as well ...my yard is a yard though, not a small garden ... but with plenty of open sky, many trees visible and an interesting roofscape, its only drawback is that it is North facing and the house obscures the midday sun for most of the year ... happily we are now entering the time when the sun rises above the house .... having spent my early years in London i find the present urban circumstance more suited to me than the house surrounded by fields with a large garden that i first came to hereabouts ... much as i came to enjoy cutting the large area of grass and watching the trees grow i was happy to leave behind the constant need for attention of both garden and solid fuel heating for town gas and a small yard ...