Weather

Still warm and muggy, fair be drinking the Highland spring today, bacon rolls and square sausage for tea.
Boaby

Warm over cast dawn, good walk out to Sewerby cliffs and back, rain in the air.
Blackies,Mavis swinging the dawn chorus,along with a few screeching green finches.
Boaby

We've got greenfinches visiting our garden for the first time in years, it seems they were hit by a virus that decimated their numbers. Fine sunny morning, no thunderstorms yet but we might see them yet.

Where has the sun gone? Now we have rain, rain and more rain, here on the Welsh riviera. Oh! also thunder and lightning.

Pretty vile here too, but the bbq is under cover so it's steak and feta salad today, with baked bananas and toasted marshmallows for afters.

Askit wrote:We've got greenfinches visiting our garden for the first time in years, it seems they were hit by a virus that decimated their numbers. Fine sunny morning, no thunderstorms yet but we might see them yet.

Another forum member from Devon/Cornwall area (Paul) mentioned that virus with the GFs last year, our goldies numbers are down on previous years.
Looking at the forecast and it looks like we might just get the tail end of the low pressure.
Have a nice day
Boaby

Light rain here at moment but forecast looks dreadful. Weekly trip to Lidl this morning, need to get back before those downpours arrive.

Pouring down since lunchtime,hope it clears out soon.
Boaby

Really warm again here Boaby , building a wooden planter from an old pallet or 2    so just finished a coat of fence paint on it and enjoying a quiet Hobgoblin Ruby.......nectar as a reward !  You need to move to the west coast bring your suntan lotion!

Used to live on Bute Kaspian,mind. Only re-located down here to look after Dad, usually it's drier here without the midge.
Thick fog overnight has left a heavy moisture coating on everything.
A chippy and a welder, man of many talents, big man.   
I'm working on replacing wooden slats on our 1844 era cask iron ended garden bench.
Mind yer fingers with the saw.     I'm banded from any circular electric saw.  
Boaby

I know Boaby, this year has been exceptional weather wise around here. Saying that I may have ruined it because it rained overnight and is overcast but dry this morning! Think my planter floated out the front gates overnight and is probably half way to Ayr now....

Saw a forecast yesterday that said the east coast will be warming up over the next few days as the wind swings round from east to westerly. Boaby Poppins

Started to warm up here now Andy, clouds are breaking up nicely to give clear blue sky's.
Anyway back to the slats on the bench.  My son up in Resipol confirms the weather been good for long periods, only the MIDGE are bad Kaspian, they chew me up big time, not enough sprit in the blood.
Boaby

Still dull over this away, it looked like it was brightening but soon went back to wall to wall grey cotton wool. Mind it hasn't rained for a couple of hours which is an improvement.

That's the rain on, coming up from the south east, still mild.
Boaby

After a very warm and sunny day the skies grew dark and foreboding. Rain seemed inevitable so it was no shock when, at 5pm, it started and lasted.........5 minutes. Back to sunshine again 

Clear blue sky. Mild with a light breeze, cracking walk along Sewerby Coast walk with Tag, lots of sand Martins and swifts about.
I feel a BBQ coming on later, I'm well stocked up with San Miquel too.   
Boaby

Heavy coastal showers curtailed the long walk at dawn, headed back in to dry Tag off.
Really dreich out there.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Not sure what happened with our weather forecasters. They all said we would get heavy rain overnight, well we did. They all said it would clear the west of Scotland early this morning, it hasn't    Still very warm though, might get the washing out yet 

Askit wrote:Not sure what happened with our weather forecasters. They all said we would get heavy rain overnight, well we did. They all said it would clear the west of Scotland early this morning, it hasn't    Still very warm though, might get the washing out yet 

Turned very mild now the rain has cleared, actually stuffy.blackies pilling in the worms for the second brood.
Boaby.

It was a nice day here if a little chilly until about seven just after I watered the hanging baskets. At that point it poured down followed by large hailstones. Managements comment about me not watering the hanging baskets at tea time was not a good idea.

Really nice sunny,but damp dawn, lots of birds out for the morning chorus.
Swifts, swallows,and martins all up catching the early morning flys.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

I've been working outside most evenings, and again I've noticed, as on previous years, we DONT get any midges, yet ten or twenty miles further west into the Trossachs/Loch Lomond area, they go mental.       Can they create a Midgie emoticon !!

Hi Gromit. Now we know what you look like, we will keep an eye out for you when we resume our travels.