Scotland - North 2007

[Crazy Chickie]

Amazing lightening today, and very heavy rain and hail showers. The roads were flooded in places when I was coming home from work. Saw my first Lewis deer yesterday, beautiful stag standing at the side of the road. We're in for worse weather tomorrow with gale and flood warnings.

[burnie]

Decent frost,snow on the hills and the bloody grass is still growing,can you eat grass as I seem to be an expert at growing it?.

[Mrs Dobby]

Lol Burnie! Must be good tough Scots grass!

Dont know if you can eat it, but I know you can juice some varieties of grass, it may be worth a look!

[Crazy Chickie]

Hey Burnie, I've still got roses in flower here on Lewis! Daffs are coming up too. We've had no proper frosts, just a little hail and loads n loads of rain (so much its bursting the water pipes n leaving us without mains drinking water for days at a time !?!). The average day time temp is about 10C which is far too warm for this time of year up here.

[sewer rat]

Still mild here too - have roses still blooming - though they need to be puttingup there umbrellas - it is absolutely p*ssing it down outside as I type and the wind is making the slates jump up and down. The wind got up this afternoon - a real cold westerly and is forecast to stay for the rest of the week.

[Crazy Chickie]

First frosts today n yesterday. Beautiful, bright and still, and very chilly. Maybe the daffs will go back to sleep

[burnie]

Several days continuous frost,finally stopped the grass in it's tracks,got up to a sweaty 1 degree today,not much gardening , though santa has treated me to some goodies so roll the thaw.

[burnie]

Thunder and lightning with a bit of hail for good? measure,talk about going out with a bang,we had crash and wallop as well,broke my wind break fence but I've managed to do a repair on it till the morning.

[JennieAtkinson]

Thankfully the gales passed us by, but we had alot of rain last night. Reasonable day today. Still 6 degrees! and no frost yet.

[sewer rat]

Just back from seasonal travels - windy as hell today but apparently has been worse - very large climbing rose ripped from wall (along with vine eyes and supporting wires) iona's trampoline trying to escape over 7ft wall, fence panels (neighbours) lying in my garden, miscellaneous items strewn round the flower beds and holly leaves everywhere (these were prunings left in a neat pile by local GC who prune every second year for the holly to make wreaths) - better get the wellies on and attack it before I go back to work.

[JennieAtkinson]

Sounds as though its been rough SR - I think you caught the bad winds on Hogmanay, but that also passed us by, thankfully. It was windy yesterday and apparently we have a Severe Gale 9 on its way. Wind has also gone round to the North, so feeling quite wintry, although my little sensor in the greenhouse says its still 8 degrees (isn't technology good!).

[Crazy Chickie]

We,ve not had it too bad wind wise, maybe up to force 8ish, on and off this last two weeks. Started raining heavily last night and hasn't stopped yet, the garden is flooded with puddles up to six inches deep in places. The flower beds in the front garden are submerged and look more like ponds. The drains I dug last autumn are working as I checked their outflows but there is just soooo much water falling it can't seep through the ground fast enough. Paddling chickens are funny thou

[JennieAtkinson]

Its just been rain, rain, rain here for the last two weeks. Everywhere just running with water. I have a new water feature in the drive - wondering about getting some ducks!

[Crazy Chickie]

How about Kio Carp Jennie?

[Crazy Chickie]

Beautful day here, cold but sunny, actually managed to get washing out for the first time in months. Got big winds coming though and feeling really guilty for not taking full advantage of the day but was feeling really lazy.