It's St Swithin's Day...

[Northerner]

...time to change your lancets!

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/lancet-change-st-swithins-day.html

 

[Tina63]

So if it rains today..............

 

[Northerner]

So if it rains today..............

I'm not sure if that means we have to change lancets every day for 40 days 😉

 

[Tina63]

Oh yes, most definitely

 

[jalapino]

Happy st swithun's day.....bishop of winchester cathedral...

 

[Casper]

It's bright and breezy up here, so good forecast for the next forty days and forty nights.

In fact, make that very windy **looks out of window and shivers**

 

[Northerner]

It's bright and breezy up here, so good forecast for the next forty days and forty nights.

In fact, make that very windy **looks out of window and shivers**

The sun is actually shining here at the moment and there's a chance I might get my washing out! 😱

 

[Steff]

It's a miracle that the sun is out I love the rain but even I got sick of 3 days in a row gr

 

[Casper]

The sun is actually shining here at the moment and there's a chance I might get my washing out! 😱

I've got washing waiting to be hung out, but o/h is mixing cement for garage roof, and I don't fancy cement spattered clothes!

 

[Northerner]

I've got washing waiting to be hung out, but o/h is mixing cement for garage roof, and I don't fancy cement spattered clothes!

Washing has been out for an hour but looking ominously dark now (the sky, not the washing 😉) Managed to mow the back lawn (a collection of different grasses, moss and dandelion stumps, in reality). Everything is growing so fast it's impossible to keep on top of it when you can't do anything for a week at a time 😡

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Was overcast to start with, warm and breezy though.
The sun is now out and it's more than warm. The grass is cut as is my neighbours.
We did agree to take it in turns to cut the front lawns, but neighbour is 76 and struggling a bit so when she goes out I sneak out and do hers as well as mine. 🙂

 

[Tina63]

Almost 8.30pm and it's still dry - can't believe it! Mind you, have you seen the forecast for tomorrow??? (Don't bother looking, I give you one guess!)

 

[Northerner]

Almost 8.30pm and it's still dry - can't believe it! Mind you, have you seen the forecast for tomorrow??? (Don't bother looking, I give you one guess!)

Yes, sunny here, blue skies - I'm going to remain in blissful ignorance...🙂

 

[Austin Mini]

Your not going to believe this but our neighbours have the lawn sprinkler on!! We came back from Gozo three weeks ago and found they had re turfed the lawn. Every day since the sprinkler comes on for an hour each evening come fine weather (?) or torrential all day rain. Strange but true I did replace my finger pricker needle today too, first time since early March.

 

[Northerner]

Your not going to believe this but our neighbours have the lawn sprinkler on!! We came back from Gozo three weeks ago and found they had re turfed the lawn. Every day since the sprinkler comes on for an hour each evening come fine weather (?) or torrential all day rain. Strange but true I did replace my finger pricker needle today too, first time since early March.

Some of my neighbours have always put their sprinklers on when there was really hot weather (remember those days?) which is just as wasteful as in the rain because it mostly evaporates! You're supposed to wait until it is cooler in the evening to make best use of it. Sheer madness to use them in the kind of weather we've been having though - are you on water meters where you are? 😱

 

[trophywench]

It's batty watering anything when it's hot - you can cause untold damage to anything green, because basically the water gets hot where it sits on the leaves and scalds the plants.

We keep forgetting to water the houseplants as we've just got so out of the habit of the watering thing!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

After a nice dry day yesterday it sure is making up for it today