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5 weeks now of wall to wall sunshine and zero rain, best spell we've had in ages in the Scottish riviera!. Commute this morning through Old Prestwick and Royal Troon, all the fairways are burnt like they normally are at the end of July, what a fab spell, and looks set to continue through the weekend. Our local fun spot that's usually 3 inches of clay is like a concrete track.
Happy days! Just felt like celebrating a good spell of weather for a change, carry on!
The wettest Spring I can remember in SW France.
We're going to York on Friday for the weekend, without the kids.
That's a cast iron, pissing down guarantee right there.
To anyone who lives near York...... I'm very sorry.
Sans kids? You'll not be caring about what it's doing outside dear boy! 🙂
It's like Summer? This is summer.
Normal pattern is a brilliant spring like this followed by drab, cold, wet and windy from the middle of July to the end of September.
Yip, been pretty reliable sunshine and smiles for weeks now... in fact it’s been a couple of weeks since I last cleaned the car so that says something ☀️☄️🙏
Wet / super wet here in Geneva.
this time last year it was 20-35c every day.
ah well, could be worse
To anyone who lives near York…… I’m very sorry.
That's OK, we're going over to Chester for the weekend so it can rain all it wants in York.
Off to Keswick for the Mtn festival and weather looks nice. Have been doing a lot of WFH involving calls out in the hills pretending to be at work !
It will definitely rain on the weekend - heading to BPW & have yet to ride there when it's warm & dry.
Grey and overcast here.
it's like summer out there
Yup,was thinking that very thing this morning .
So much dust in the forest I have to clean my drinks bottle when I get in,and the usual headwind has dropped to almost zero most nights. #Ilovemycommute.
Grey and overcast here.
Aye, but what's it like outside Drac?.... 🙂
Oh well, 6 weeks was a good run, awoke to the drizzle this morning, sadly.
Don't despair, long term forecast is for drier and warmer than average weather from late June onwards after 7-10 days of unsettled weather.
But even so 2018 is already counting as a good summer
awoke to the drizzle
Fo' shizzle, nobizzlefrizzle!
So much rain in south of France, I have never seen the countryside that green.
But it is changing this week .
Luckily the trails are very rocky, so not a disaster.
I'm hoping to get my bike back from the shop this weekend after it was sent away for a warranty repair. Sorry, it's gonna pee down from now till the end of summer. All during this fantastic dry spell, I've been struggling around my local trails on my hardtail (my back is no longer in a respectable condition to be playing on a hardtail), desperately waiting on my Four to get back to me. Again, I apologise.
Defo like summer here - the weirdos and nutters are out in the woods! Managed to come across an "exotic" photo shoot last night. Well, as exotic as you can get just outside Corby ;-(
I had to water the garden yesterday - WATERED THE GARDEN IN WALES 🏴
Sadly this does mean it won’t be long till some ****wit starts setting things on fire.
Anyway, long term forecast (utterly unreliable) says it’s fairly plain sailing till mid-August.
Was only a minor shower, it's bloody lovely again now!
Very happy with the weather so far"! Been off on Paternity leave for the last two weeks, and it's been ruddy lovely!.
We've got 60,000 grass babies to keep alive as well as the one human baby, so I'm hoping for some overnight thunderstorms here and there to stop me having to get the sprinkler out.
I spent the afternoon in the garden with my Dad building a greenhouse from a kit.
For a man whose living comes from flogging the active ingredients of sunscreens, i today look like a swan vesta - proper poster boy for the skin cancer campaign. My daughter toasted a bagel this morning by holding it close to my neck.
#DONTDOASIDODOASISAY
#WEARSUNSCREEN
#WEARSUNSCREEN
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience
@ the grass waterers
My lawn man says don't bother. You can't put enough on to make a difference unless you run a sprinkler for hours, and if you underdo it then all the moisture remains in the top bit, and only encourages shallow root growth which is bad for it long term.
Exceptions are new seed where they need moisture to germinate and get started, and also turf for the first couple of weeks (but you shouldn't really be seeding or turfing in June anyway)
The council returfed a patch of verge near me last year, after it had been damaged by roadwork lorries and debris parked on it for a fortnight. They practically just laid the turf over the crap after the worst of the asphalt had been scraped off, emptied a bowser of water over it, and then sodded off. All summer it went browner and the gaps between the turves got bigger (despite it being quite damp) and it looked shite. Then autumn, winter and spring came, and now it looks like it's been there for years. Bloody resilient stuff, grass.
Perchy, that is a blast from the past...
It's the same kind of blocking high over northern Europe that gave the Alps so much snow last winter; Europe is now getting the same blocked cyclonic systems while we get no rain.
Meanwhile down in Cape Town they have not had decent rain for a couple of years. Could it happen here?
cheers for the nudge, jonv. I had been wavering wavering, but I was going down the non watering route. It's been sown a month now, and it's had its first mow. The patchy bits are where it wasn't dug over deep enough (high spots raked down), and encouraging shallow root growth there isn't going to help matters.
I'll leave it! It looks good from a distance, anyway!
Ta.
looks even better from a distance with a cold one in your hand sat down on a chair instead of wandering up and down with a hose pipe 😉
So, seed or turf ye grass experts?... I've always turfed, but fancy trying the seed on a wee bit of ground I've cleared.
Biblical rain here in the Loire Valley but at least warm rain. Thinking of moving on in the caravan but the weather seems the same for most of central France. Weather is definitely unreliable wherever you are it seems these days. Over the last few years we have seen unseasonable weather in France, Germany and Luxembourg, places that are usually pretty predictable you would suppose, never mind the UK.
Last night in the south of France, near Ventoux, the rain was biblical. The road outside the chalet was a torrent and nearby Orange has had flooding. I thought today's Mont Ventoux ride (humble brag) might have been in jeopardy, but all was well this morning bar a few gravelly patches.
My front garden is largely moss , weeks of dryness mean now it aint looking good. I've tried killing it over the years & gave up. It's gonna pish it down on Skye tomorow , but the weather has been superb of late.
Off to Le Loire camping next<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> week so hope the weather there improves!</span>
Seed for pro's turf for amateurs.