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  • #136
    A grey cloudy day here until 3pm when the sun came out ......... and it was GLORIOUS! Thankfully came home at 4pm and sat in the garden with a cup of tea and my GYO Mag. Then cooked a quick dinner and we sat in our new sitterooterie eating it! It was very hot, no wind and no midges either. It must have been well into the 20s (dont' laugh!). Then suddenly we saw the fog gathering on the hill and within ten minutes we were engulfed in thick fog.

    It is now so thick that I can't see the garden fence. Oh well, typical Shetland weather. Four hours of sunshine and probably four days of fog!
    ~
    Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
    ~ Mary Kay Ash

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    • #137
      Thick fog all day
      ~
      Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
      ~ Mary Kay Ash

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      • #138
        Today started with a sea haar, which lifted about 2 o'clock this afternoon, then came back in at about 5 tonight. Three hours in between were scorching.
        Rat

        British by birth
        Scottish by the Grace of God

        http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
        http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/

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        • #139
          We had all of that SR but not the lifting and scorching bit!
          ~
          Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
          ~ Mary Kay Ash

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          • #140
            Have had three days of constant rain, accompanied by easterly winds with a real bite to them - seems to have been a strange month June - not much sun or heat for that matter and some crops seem to have taken the opportunity to have a rest and stop growing for a bit - still look healthy but not exactly racing ahead with things.
            Rat

            British by birth
            Scottish by the Grace of God

            http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
            http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/

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            • #141
              Yay ! The easterly wind has gone !!
              Boo ! Been replaced by a northerly gale !!
              And the forecast is sh*t too
              Rat

              British by birth
              Scottish by the Grace of God

              http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
              http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/

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              • #142
                Cold northerly winds, only managed 9 degrees today. Grey skies and at times quite heavy rain. Can't believe this is 26 June!
                ~
                Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                • #143
                  Wind still coming from the North and bloody cold with it. However, it was sunny and when I was in polytunnel had to take fleece off and was still sweating buckets. Step outside and you near froze to death !
                  Rat

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                  http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
                  http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/

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                  • #144
                    We had some sun yesterday , but today normal grey skies were resumed, then a couple of real heavy downpours.
                    The second one lasted half an hour and managed to put another 100 litres of rainwater into my IBC collection tank - all this while myself and the farmer I rent the land from sat in my shed having coffee and apple pie !!
                    Rat

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                    • #145
                      Still no rain. Am having to water the garden nearly every day.

                      Today was bright and sunny, and incredibly warm. Even when it got grey around 6 tonight, it was still warm, and we sat outside for a wee tipple on the new terrace (oh don't I sound grand). Tonight it has gone flat calm, not a ripple on the loch, I can even see the fish rising here from the house. Awfuly midgy but I was working in the tunnel tonight.
                      ~
                      Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                      ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                      • #146
                        Originally posted by JennieAtkinson View Post
                        Still no rain. Am having to water the garden nearly every day.

                        Today was bright and sunny, and incredibly warm. Even when it got grey around 6 tonight, it was still warm, and we sat outside for a wee tipple on the new terrace (oh don't I sound grand). Tonight it has gone flat calm, not a ripple on the loch, I can even see the fish rising here from the house. Awfuly midgy but I was working in the tunnel tonight.
                        Get the fly rod out then!! Nice little brown trout for supper, just the job!!!
                        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                        Diversify & prosper


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                        • #147
                          Originally posted by JennieAtkinson View Post
                          Still no rain. Am having to water the garden nearly every day.

                          Today was bright and sunny, and incredibly warm. Even when it got grey around 6 tonight, it was still warm, and we sat outside for a wee tipple on the new terrace (oh don't I sound grand). Tonight it has gone flat calm, not a ripple on the loch, I can even see the fish rising here from the house. Awfuly midgy but I was working in the tunnel tonight.
                          Thanks to your lovely photos Jennie I can now picture where you live. Don't take any notice of Snadger - as a trout fisher lady myself, I never kept any brown trout - only the rainbow ones. Bernie
                          Bernie aka DDL

                          Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

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                          • #148
                            Its many years since I fly fished for trout! But OH did come home with fresh mackerel last night so we had that for tea tonight.

                            Today has been a mixture of fog (thick - so thick it grounded all the aircraft) and bright sunshine. Just had a lovely walk with the Aimee, the dog along the loch edge, lots of whimbrels and curlews around this year and a whooper swan with four signets. Thankfully just enough wind to keep the midges at bay.
                            Last edited by JennieAtkinson; 05-07-2007, 07:52 PM.
                            ~
                            Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                            ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                            • #149
                              Yay!!! Its raining .........

                              And ......... its official, June here in Shetland was the second driest since records began!
                              ~
                              Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                              ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                              • #150
                                June here in Ireland was the wettest since 1956.

                                And when your back stops aching,
                                And your hands begin to harden.
                                You will find yourself a partner,
                                In the glory of the garden.

                                Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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