Weather

Great sunny morning, bit of white fluffy cloud around so not looking good for later and a bit of a breeze blowing.
Pair of bullfinches tucking in to breakfast of nyger and sunflower hearts and green woodpecker tapping away.
Mowed the front lawn yesterday, looked great then the badgers came along last night and dug it all up again, little beggars.

Done the back and one side of the van Boaby, usually spread the job over several days and even weeks so it is not such a chore, have a rotary machine but do the job mostly by hand, polish then sealant then wax, the result is the van looks like new rather than its 9 years old now. It gives me pleasure looking that good ,but,  I can see why people would either not bother or just a quick wash off. Each to their own!

Have a great day

Overcast and cooler here now,sun in trying to come out, used to take me about a week to wash and wax the Sigma Hog and it was abit shorter than your van.
I used Cara-van White polish, came up well.
Boaby

You are a mere whipper snapper compared to me Boaby according to your profile ( I am 72!) don't know if you are the same but these days although I am fit and healthy find myself pacing some of the bigger jobs or doing them in stages. We have three different lawns in total over an acre which I used to just mow straight off, now I do one at a time with a roller mower. A ride on would not really be practical unless it was zero turn.

How does it go, potter in the morning, rest in the afternoon, relax in the evening then sleep at night and enjoy the weather of course!

A lovely bright and warmer day here. We have put the bedding back in the locker ready for off next month. 
I managed a couple of hours in the workshop with the door open this afternoon. One of the male blackbirds was running in and out of the rockery making a lot of noise.There has been two male blackbirds about for a while now. The sparrow squadron are pulling our surviving hanging basket to bits. I think they are after the lining for nesting.

Heavy showers came in earlier than I expected curtailing my walk with Tag, it's not enjoyable walking into high wind and rain .
Hope you all got your vans clean and polished and garden chores completed.
Blackies really into the nest building,should be laying eggs soon.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Light but persistent rain and much cooler here. Wet stuff looks on for the day so a quiet day in the old armchair is on the cards. Then again, what's new

Wet start, weeks shopping done by 8am so time now for a cup of tea. First signs of a little bit of blue sky coming so looks like it may be dry later on. Enjoy the chair Tony, don't spend too much time inspecting the insides of your eyelids.

Dry cold night, clear this morning,big moon, noisy Dawn chorus.
infor a nice day, although chilly to start with.
Good walk out with Tag, he's had his breakfast and cleaning himself up.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Cool and wet start to the day but something brighter in prospect. Our garden clock is set at the right time for the move to BST tomorrow, that's because I didn't bother changing it back in the autumn

Stopped raining and now looking a little brighter, blue patches and shower clouds. Hoping it will stay dry to get out and about.
Pair of greater spotted woodies on the feeders this morning which was nice to see. In the skies it is like the Battle of Britain with the gulls attacking the soaring buzzards, they seem pretty adept at escaping though!

Have a noice day 

It's that time of year, either they are fighting for territory or sorting out who is boss. We chased a squirrel out the garden yesterday and it took refuge in a neighbours big tree., but not for long. Pair of Magpies have a nest in a close by fir tree and they hounded the squirrel out of the tree and then out of the gardens.

Real windy at 5, oops 6, light showers, brief walk out with Tag, winds ramping up to gale force along the coast.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

We had high winds and heavy rain overnight, it's a bit brighter now but the forecast is for more of the wet stuff today. We get the national and local BBC weather forecasts after the Saturday evening news. The national forecast was full of how warm it's going to be from tomorrow (for a few days anyway), our local forecast followed that up with a Met office weather warning for the same time because of heavy rain and potential flooding

Askit wrote:We had high winds and heavy rain overnight, it's a bit brighter now but the forecast is for more of the wet stuff today. We get the national and local BBC weather forecasts after the Saturday evening news. The national forecast was full of how warm it's going to be from tomorrow (for a few days anyway), our local forecast followed that up with a Met office weather warning for the same time because of heavy rain and potential flooding

still dry here, overcast and breezy.
Boaby

Overcast and breezy here, not raining though so no excuse for not getting on with the chores outside.

Milder overcast and very windy, dry underfoot, Dawn chorus in full swing this morning.still very dark the clocks have gone forward ?.
Enjoyed the walk out, have a nice day.
Boaby

Overcast here too, promise of sunshine later and a light breeze. Glad the walk with Tag went well Boaby. Back to waxing the van today and getting ready for tomorrow and a day at the beach. Want to clean the indicator points in the water tank and air the tank out before a refill, put all the summer essentials back in, chairs etc, feels like we are heading off to normal.

Absolutely pouring down and the CH has gone on the blink

Glum Tony

groundhog wrote:Overcast here too, promise of sunshine later and a light breeze. Glad the walk with Tag went well Boaby. Back to waxing the van today and getting ready for tomorrow and a day at the beach. Want to clean the indicator points in the water tank and air the tank out before a refill, put all the summer essentials back in, chairs etc, feels like we are heading off to normal.

Clear blue sky and heat wave,put the shorts on this afternoon,had to take Tag to the vet to clean up a split claw on his back foot, it had got infected ,I have some industrial strength wash for his foot now,.  
Will have to re wash the van again as it's covered in sand again.  .
Boaby

Askit wrote:Absolutely pouring down and the CH has gone on the blink

Glum Tony

West is best. Eh Tony.   , my son in Inveraray says it's been Stottin doon.
Boaby

burlingtonboaby wrote:

Askit wrote:Absolutely pouring down and the CH has gone on the blink

Glum Tony

West is best. Eh Tony.   , my son in Inveraray says it's been Stottin doon.
Boaby

I never said that, I'm not a clipe so I'm not telling you it was GH Rain has gone off here but we have a big dip in temperature on the way.

CH man has been and says we need a new boiler, just got to freeze until they can find time to fit it

burlingtonboaby wrote:

Boaby

Poor little Tag, that is not much fun, hope he is better soon


First I am accused of being a sassenach and now a clipe, you just can't win in this place
Sorry about the boiler, you'll just have to wash in cold water for a while now, there are a load of boilers stuck on a ship in the suez canal that were destined for the UK, hope yours isn't one of those...

groundhog wrote:

burlingtonboaby wrote:

Boaby

Poor little Tag, that is not much fun, hope he is better soon


First I am accused of being a sassenach and now a clipe, you just can't win in this place
Sorry about the boiler, you'll just have to wash in cold water for a while now, there are a load of boilers stuck on a ship in the suez canal that were destined for the UK, hope yours isn't one of those...

At the risk of offering further confusion....I was not accusing you of being a clipe (Scottish word for tell tale or "grass), I was saying I wasn't one. Although in this case I actually was

Fortunately we have an electric immersion heater so no problem with hot water (in fact I seem to spend a lot of time in it ). It's our Ideal gas boiler which has proved not to be ideal

I shall never understand this English or is it Scottish language, think I might learn Welsh see if I do any better.

Another dry clear night,sun almost up on the horizon,you'll have to excuse this old man as I get you all mixed up these days.
Great walk out along the grass fields with Tag, washed his back foot in doggie antiseptic this morning,he's had his breakfast,so he's fine.
Have a nice day.
Boaby