Hallo folks. Not much action yesterday afternoon on last week's chat, though SueC quoted a poem by the Wolof fishermen of Senegal about ospreys, which I found reassuring.
AQ: You can visit me, too! It's only 5 C (41 F) here tonight. You could cool off! Predictions are that we will have snow next week.
Dianne - The only snow I have seen (apart from distant wee patches on Scottish hillsides), was some grey sludgy stuff at roadside in Tasmania, oh too many years ago!
Morning all.
Just heard the news on the radio that the flooding in UK is so severe that they are evacuating people. Oh I do hope you are safe there!!!
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Thanks Auntie and all who have sympathised with us in the 'Wet West'! I'm lucky in that we live at the top of a hill so the water runs down past us, except for the back garden which requires wellington boots. Further west in the 'Fermanagh Lakeland, a village is only accessible by boat or tractor and the river authority was releasing 300 tons of water per second into the rivers running off Lough Erne yesterday, But poor Wattle, I'd be totally panic stricken if I lived in your area .. Keep safe and I do hope your OH won't have to go fire-fighting.
just a brief morning post - what is that shining in the window - it's actually sun!!! We are told 30 roads are closed in Dumfries and Galloway, but don't know which ones! Joiner is here - and a young plumber (looks like he should still be at school! They come over the water from Carlisle (Cumbria). They said it was bad where they were working yesterday.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Morning everyone ,
It is raining at the moment on TI but fairly light and patchy. I could not believe the pictures of Cockermouth with the streets under 8 feet of water. We walked along those same streets when on holiday in July.
Temp 14.5c , Wind SSW 22mph gusting to 31mph , Visibility 7 kms , Pressure 1008hPa rising.
Lady P has gone on a Christmas Shopping mission with her daughter and left Hamish and I to fend for ourselves.
FAB
OG and patriciat ... glad you are ok ... just been watching the news ... horrendous pictures of the floods in Cumbria and SW Scotland. I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like ... we are ok in this part of Northumberland, although I heard that the north of the county has a severe flood warning for the Tweed area.
Hope everyone else is surviving the heat/cold/wind/aches&pains!
Off on a shopping mission shortly, although I hear rain hammering on the conservatory roof now ... might put it off!!
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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Morning Alan - we have rain here and has been raining since midnight last night. It is not as heavy as up North and how I feel for them all. As you say it is hard to believe that streets are 8ft under water. What on earth happened to our weather, it is still unseasonably warm here.
Hope Lady P and her daughter have a good shopping mission and I am sure you and Hamish will fend for yourselves very well.
Margobird
Good morning auntie so kind of you to think about those who have had to be rescued from their homes in the terrible flooding in Cumbia and Scotland. We have rain but not to the extent they have and not much respite in sight for them. Chirstmas is coming soon and they will have very little to celebrate my heart really goes out to them.
Hello, all. We are fine here & even had a little sun this morning, but my heart goes out, the same as said by Margobird, to all those who are struggling today with all that water. Apparently in some areas the amount of rainfall in one 24 hr period has broken all records, so that combined with already saturated ground from recent weather, its no wonder there is nowhere for it all to go. As Alan commented, if you have ever been to the Lake District area, it is hard to think of those quaint little streets all full of water. Lets hope it all drains away soon (I don't think its raining quite so much today).
Went on Shopping Mission very early this morning, so felt quite smug about not having a problem with parking. Sainsburys is piled high with food & goodies, can't quite believe that people are all going to eat all that food: no wonder we seem to have a problem with our figures these days. (You note I include myself in that- really must cut down before the festivities or will have to buy new clothes!) Saw the Council leaf blowers in action as I came home, the men seemed happy in their work but I didn't stop to ask if they gave their machines names!!
Have a good day, All.
ps many thanks to AQ for recipe, sounds yummy!