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Here in the sunny southeast, it has been anything but. Of the last two bank holiday weekends, one was a total washout and the other was polar, but the thing that has stood out for me is the wind. I have never known it to be so windy at this time of year, even as I write this I'm looking at, what appears to be a birch tree, bent almost double, at the end of my garden. Apart from one or two isolated days over the past couple of weeks, this has been the norm. I feel sorry for the traders who have bought summer stock in what is still a tourist area, they've had a lean couple of years and were, I'm sure, looking forward to a decent season.
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isha wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:03 am
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Give over with the cryin' - you're only adding to the humidity! :mrgreen:
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My father said this morning the rain is badly needed :mrgreen:
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Our rain is coming in torrential downpours, which is actually working out really well for me. This is the first year in over a decade where I've been able to properly weed my veg beds in June, as usually the soil surface is baked hard by now and the weeds just snap off at the base, then sprout back like Medusa's snake-hair. :twisted:

But I've been able to pull four barrow-loads of weeds out of my strawberry beds this week, roots and all - even those with long tap roots.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:26 am My father said this morning the rain is badly needed :mrgreen:
It is, in Ethiopia.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:26 am My father said this morning the rain is badly needed :mrgreen:
Someone in this house has been saying all week how much he needs rain to wet down his turned compost heaps 😡😡😡
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isha wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 12:44 pm Someone in this house has been saying all week how much he needs rain to wet down his turned compost heaps 😡😡😡
Tell him to get all his mates around for a few drinks and have them all pee on it, urine is known to be an excellent activator for compost. Plus of course they'd be doing their bit for the planet by reducing human waste going through the purifying process.
You, of course would have to find some way to spare your blushes.
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marhay70 wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:25 pm Tell him to get all his mates around for a few drinks and have them all pee on it, urine is known to be an excellent activator for compost. Plus of course they'd be doing their bit for the planet by reducing human waste going through the purifying process.
You, of course would have to find some way to spare your blushes.
Blushes?! You mistake me for a wilting flower. He hardly ever pees anywhere else 😅
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isha wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:38 pm Blushes?! You mistake me for a wilting flower. He hardly ever pees anywhere else 😅
And his mates too? Very 60s
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Chucking it down in Enniscorthy today - a typical summer day in the Sunny South East.
'no more blah blah blah'
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Wish the wind would ease off a bit. My baby apple trees are getting battered.
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At last! Looking pretty good for a nice bit of heat and sun starting this weekend, particularly for Leinster and Munster. More cloudy further north, but warm and sunny spells even there. Dust down your barbecues and get the fire pits lit!!!!
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Hottest day of the year today according to met wife Ann. (Spell checker for met eireann.)
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'tis warmer in the house than outside.....

Still, it's grand weather alright
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Looks like it's going to be another scorcher today.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:33 am Looks like it's going to be another scorcher today.
'no more blah blah blah'
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Next weekend promises to be.......very scorchio... for Spain, France and the southern UK. My son, who lives in Madrid, is quoting temps going to the high 30s to 40+ for the next week or so. He is therefore departing to Gijon in the north of the country for 4/5 days, for some type of coastal relief. We in Ireland just might get the tail of this heat-dome, yet cloud cover seems to be all-pervading at the moment. Not much blue sky out there. Interesting week or two ahead.
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A nice day out there today with plenty of sun. I'm curious how hot it will actually get here over the next few days, the media is exaggerating it as usual saying it could 'peak at 32C' - lol, I doubt it, but still looking forward to it.
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windows7 wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 4:05 pm A nice day out there today with plenty of sun. I'm curious how hot it will actually get here over the next few days, the media is exaggerating it as usual saying it could 'peak at 32C' - lol, I doubt it, but still looking forward to it.
Me too, I'm well stocked up with lashings of ginger beer, plenty of food and windows open.
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Del.Monte wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 4:16 pm Me too, I'm well stocked up with lashings of ginger beer, plenty of food and windows open.
Ha ha ha!! Harking back to the past Del! Havn't heard the 'lashings of ginger beer' saying since, well, the last time I read an Enid Blyton book. Good description though!!
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All set for the heat wave over the coming days. 😀

Could do with more ice pops.
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Nice Nc! We will go to shops tomorrow to stock up.
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A beautiful balmy night here in the NE, not unlike a couple of similar nights last July. And I used to write the month off as a washout after some nice May and June weather.
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