Weather Mild or what.

[Nicos]

my grass is growing

...looks like it will need a hair cut within the next few days * sigh

[julesapple]

We don't have a lawn any more. It's like the bog garden next to the pond has been extended, instead.

[BertieFox]

The incredibly severe winter of 1946 to 1947 didn't really start until January 21st 1947, and then lasted until March. So we should watch what happens on Tuesday!

[RaptorUK]

There is an article on the BBC website about a solar minimum happening similar to the quiet phase in the 17th Century . . .

BBC News - Is our Sun falling silent?

[vegboi]

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[ancee]

We've got bluebells sprouting and pansies re-flowering. It feels like Spring is here and we missed Winter altogether! I REALLY hope this happens!! (Is there a smiley for fingers crossed?)

[johnjohn]

We've got bluebells sprouting and pansies re-flowering. It feels like Spring is here and we missed Winter altogether! I REALLY hope this happens!! (Is there a smiley for fingers crossed?)

There you go ancee....

[RaptorUK]

We've got bluebells sprouting and pansies re-flowering. It feels like Spring is here and we missed Winter altogether! I REALLY hope this happens!! (Is there a smiley for fingers crossed?)

Like it or Loath it we need Winter . . . unless you want to be overrun with bugs in Spring and Summer

[Potstubsdustbins]

Just read the article about the Solar Minimum that appears to be happening. The sun should be very active now (a Solar Maximus) instead its gone very quite and at this time no one can explain it.

If it continues then it will be a pain in the arris, the last time this happened they were having 'frost fairs' on the frozen river Thames.

Potty.

[Nicos]

10C here at 6pm - and the lawn looks like it could do with it's first cut!!

[lottie dolly]

That is very scary reading,

[binley100]

My rosemary at the lottie has started to flower.......although I'm liking no snow, this just seems wrong ...

[ancee]

Hmmm.... aren't we a bunch of optimists? It was toooooooooo good to be true splish splash

[BertieFox]

Still not falling much below 2C or 3C here at worst, and the polytunnel gives about 1 or 2C of protection. I'm still gambling that my climbing French beans MIGHT make it through to March and give me a crop though in case not, I've got a whole lot of climbing peas going instead which are pretty hardy. I have some Lavandula multifida which normally croaks with the first frost still flowering away in a window box by the house. And the frogs are still jumping around in the pond behind the house. I saw my first lizard of the new year on a sunny day last week. It is absurd!

[Bill HH]

The incredibly severe winter of 1946 to 1947 didn't really start until January 21st 1947, and then lasted until March. So we should watch what happens on Tuesday!

My old pappy never stopped telling me that the worst winter ever (1947) didnt start until Feb the 7th and our farm was completely snowed in for 5 weeks or more, the roads were filled with huge snow drifts and they dug a tunnel under it to walk through. The long winter may have had something to do with why I was born in 1948!