Weather

My SiL lives in Richmond so we've been getting updates from her and her husband. Hopefully the extreme hot weather will pass.

Another lovely day here, the whistles appear to have been confiscated but the paddling pool hasn't sprung a leak.........yet 

Usually take the seaplane from Richmond to Nanaimo, very handy for YVR. Much cooler today according to daughter today, great relief but the concern now I believe is the potential for fires. Hopefully it will not happen.
Lovely warm sunny afternoon here today, busy this evening otherwise it would have been a walk round the village.
That paddling pool sounds like a good idea. Wonder what Tag would make of it?

Tag has a couple of pink kiddies pools hog, he goes nuts if you leave the hose pipe on slow when filling them.
Chilly day here,overcast for most of the day.
Boaby

Fresh breeze coming of the coast and overcast. Long walk out with Tag along the coastal path,not to many folk about this morning.
Lots of young gulls about,some unfortunately have been ran over,
Sad really.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Another hot one ahead, already 19°c with clear skies. Forecast suggests it will all be back to normal at the weekend with some rain and cooler temperatures. Obviously the person in charge if the weather knows we are away next week and arranging appropriate conditions for us  or ,

Morning all
Good dry start to the day, roads were very busy at 0730am on the way to the weekly shop, looks like being another warm one. Clean the van today ready for MOT and service tomorrow. Its Canada Day today so may have to partake in a few drops of WHISKEY this evening. Have a great one!

groundhog wrote:Morning all
Good dry start to the day, roads were very busy at 0730am on the way to the weekly shop, looks like being another warm one. Clean the van today ready for MOT and service tomorrow. Its Canada Day today so may have to partake in a few drops of WHISKEY this evening. Have a great one!

Enjoy Canada day GH.       Might just have a wee half too.   
Boaby 
Still windy and overcast.

Mild night with a few rain showers, fret cleared to reveal a lovely sunrise, good walk out with tag,kept out the long grass as its soaking.
Blackies doing well collecting worms etc for there second brood.Mavis having a good old sing song.
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Lovely sunrise here too, badger has been busy grubbing in the lawn again and it looks like someone has attacked it with a pickaxe!
Van off for the MOT this morning, chance to actually use it as it is a thirty mile round trip.
Looks to be another hottie so make the most of it.
Have a good day

Good luck with the MOT

Think we're on the last day of wall to wall sunshine, showers tomorrow with some heavier stuff coming on Sunday. Had to chase the squirrel out of the garden yesterday, it digs up plants and tracks the bird feeders. Recently we found two of them ones hooked to our pear tree on the ground and the squirrel was identified as the culprit. It's been exonerated (of that at least) as we caught a magpie in the act. 

They have now been fixed to the tree with wires (the feeders, not the magpies  )

groundhog wrote:Lovely sunrise here too, badger has been busy grubbing in the lawn again and it looks like someone has attacked it with a pickaxe!
Van off for the MOT this morning, chance to actually use it as it is a thirty mile round trip.
Looks to be another hottie so make the most of it.
Have a good day

Hope your van passes its test o.k hog. Turned out nice here no wind either.
Boaby

Askit wrote:Good luck with the MOT

Think we're on the last day of wall to wall sunshine, showers tomorrow with some heavier stuff coming on Sunday. Had to chase the squirrel out of the garden yesterday, it digs up plants and tracks the bird feeders. Recently we found two of them ones hooked to our pear tree on the ground and the squirrel was identified as the culprit. It's been exonerated (of that at least) as we caught a magpie in the act. 

They have now been fixed to the tree with wires (the feeders, not the magpies  )

Magpies must be spreading all over the country Tony, I watched them attack a young collared dove at the site in Yarmouth, plenty of them on other sites too.
Turned out nice here, the claim before the storm.   
Boaby

Quite a lot of magpies down this way too, watched another dogfight between three buzzards and a flock of gulls this afternoon, they really do go for it, pretty spectacular though.
Van serviced and MOT passed with no problems or advisories so all good, £260 which questions the myth Mercedes are expensive, traffic horrendous this afternoon and the main hols haven't started yet. Good sunny day but the skies are darkening now and storms threatened for the weekend.

Watched a family of Swifts zooming through the sky above my head 10 minutes ago, like something out of Star Wars .
Low sea cloud coming in again after a nice clear and sunny day.
Boaby
P.S pleased your van passed o.k hog, that's you set for new adventures.

Sea fret this morning covering the sunrise,still mild, birds seem to be to busy looking for food ,not many singing the dawn chorus this morning .
Boaby

Good news on the van GH

The rain arrived early yesterday, hard luck on anyone with a planned BBQ as it hammered down at teatime. It's dry with light cloud, and still fairly warm, but we're expecting showers later. Hard luck, especially when there's nothing on the telly up here 

Warm morning but rain about, quite heavy overnight.
Nothing on the telly down here either Tony, mind you it was good last night at Wombledon when that Andy bloke lost, where was the other player from again...

Aye, you Canadians taking advantage of an old man with one leg 

Askit wrote:Aye, you Canadians taking advantage of an old man with one leg 

Thick pea souper this morning, short walk out with Tag, even the Swifts are flying over the roof tops as the fog is so dense.
Had planned wash the van this morning, nope.back under the duvet 
Have a nice day.
Boaby

Wouldn't be walking Tag here absolutely hammering down at rhe moment guttering can't handle it.
Duvet for me too for an hour or so

Dry start but still overcast and muggy. Yesterday was the same, some around here had enough rain to cause flash flooding but we got a single shower that lasted all of 15 minutes. I think there will be more today so it's an indoors day for us.

Woke up at 9 to the sun out and very hot, clouding over abit now though, have a nice day.
Boaby