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Tag: weather

  • Suck it up Bobs at it again

    It’s just about Autumn time here in the UK….. Days are a little shorter now, temperatures although mild are a little bit down.

    And leaves from deciduous trees are changing into their Autumn clothes and starting to parade their Autumn attire as they drop peacefully and quietly to the ground…Lovely to see and a good reminder that the cooler months are coming soon!

    So, so peaceful to see the Autumn leaves landing on the ground silently….then Bob next door decides “That’s it, you lil buggers…you’re not staying in my garden any longer…even though they’ve only just appeared overnight…..how do I know this…..well Bob has bought himself a ‘gardening vac’…. Just like an indoor hoover only meaner and angrier which compliments Bob in his understanding of nature really!

    ‘Suck-it-up-Bob’ gets to work around his back garden area. Sucking up allsorts of stuff.. Yes..mainly leaves but obviously all small beneficial insects that start to use the leaf litter as their Winter home…. So just like a mincer that grinds chunks of meat or a wood chipper that sorts out branches, so the garden vac angrily and whiningly munches anything it can suck up it and bag it into microscopic pieces.

    I use a rake…it rakes up fallen leaves and I leave them to decompose in the adjacent borders to provide organic matter to the soil and for Winter food for birds foraging in the garden finding grubs to eat when flicking leaves over ( a funny sight to see)

    Still, Bob’s garden is once again in pristine condition…well..for a minute or two as another leaf…ooops…I mean batch of leaves fall to the ground….never mind Bob…it will keep you busy right through to December 😀

    now for a cup-of-T

  • Water, water, everywhere

    created Monday 21st July 2025

    So at long last we have rain and rain oh and thunder and lightning accompanied by, yes, more rain.

    We needed it. Apart from the minimal amount for the last four months or so there really hasn’t been any rain here in North Yorkshire and as the reservoirs are lower than usual we have recently encountered a hosepipe ban.

    So over the weekend and today.. “Rain..Rain..Rain”…”Bring it on” I say. But, it’s just so much, far too much in one go. I was looking out over my garden during the daily deluges, which soon flooded over the lawn and onto the adjoining paving with roof guttering unable also to cope with the volumes. I’m really not complaining…. We need a heck of a lot more but it’s a start.

    And visiting my customer’s gardens today, the soil was basically dry to touch, yes, puddles in dips along pathways yet lawns and soil borders in a condition that you really wouldn’t have thought such a weekend deluge had taken place!

    So usual gardening continued as required without even getting muddy wet! YaY!

    now for a cup-of-T

  • Phew…marathon month

    Bye-bye Jannnnnnnnnnnnnuary….you were such a lonnnng month.

    Here’s to February!… Shorter month.. Slightly longer daylight hours and better weather… Says he who looks out at the monotonous grey covered cloudy sky with freezing cold temperatures☹️

    Still, Spring is coming very soon!

  • And 13th January…let there be light…

    I always tell folk here in the UK when they are plunged into Wintertime short days and long dark evenings that 13th January is a marker point to say ” hey, you will notice it just a bit lighter in later afternoon from 13th January onwards.”

    And so, even on this heavily grey toned cloudy afternoon its just past 16.30 or 4.30pm and it’s still light although daylight is now slowly fading away (twas dark a 16.00 or 4pm. only a couple of weeks ago.)

    And as each day dawns it will be just noticibily lighter each afternoon!

    Bring on Spring!

  • Snow joke

    Well, apparently a ‘no name’ storm will be arriving over the next few days, Monday 30th December 2024 to Thursday 2nd January 2025.

    Well, when they say storm here in North Yorkshire, England, they are usually short lived and certainly not as extreme as other places on Earth yet they do seem to be getting worse and more frequent from when I was a kid, many many years ago.

    And this time, the predicted wind and heavy rain will also dump loads of snow on us on New Year’s Day. So remains to be seen!

    The main weather reporters get blamed if they don’t report the severity of it yet when they do and it’s not as bad as they say it could be, then they get slated again for over reporting!

    Yes, we will get some weather each day that’s for certain and as I already said our weather extremes are usually short lived.

    So let’s see what the weather has in-store for us this coming week.

    I am a bit fixated about the weather though, probably due to my gardening business trying to plan my week ahead and day to day depending on the weather, ( “yer can’t mow grass when it’s chucking it down!”) so the weather has a direct bearing on what I can and cannot do in gardens!