cracking flags mon.....

 

if this is global warming,will do for me....

 

im of to the beach.

 

ill keep an eye out swimming policemen.

Some suggestions that colder conditions with white stuff will properly arrive mid Jan.

Pinch of salt job maybe, but we'll see.

https://twitter.com/TheFootbaIlHub/status/1740320123683291156/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1740320123683291156&currentTweetUser=TheFootbaIlHub

Just been a few lightning strikes up Rossendale, and hailstones here.

After last night's supercell thunder storm and tornados too!

It was wild here last night. Swirling winds and lightning. 

Today its just wind wind and more wind. Fuckin sick of it.

Nothing but wind and more wind in Aggy, my fence has once again taken a battering, pissing me off now.

1 hour ago, Winchester White said:

Nothing but wind and more wind in Aggy, my fence has once again taken a battering, pissing me off now.

Plant hedges. They don't blow over.

Had to go outside at 3 this morning to stop my bins twatting the car.

35 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Plant hedges. They don't blow over.

Twatting builders built ours 9 ft tall as there was a nursery at the back but only used the same thickness of posts as the usual 6 ft ones. Along with crap drainage that only after a good few years when it's all settled we find ourselves with a swamp and left with a big expense.

Good call on hedges though, or maybe conifers?

12 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Twatting builders built ours 9 ft tall as there was a nursery at the back but only used the same thickness of posts as the usual 6 ft ones. Along with crap drainage that only after a good few years when it's all settled we find ourselves with a swamp and left with a big expense.

Good call on hedges though, or maybe conifers?

No conifers!!!!

Unless you get well on top with them early on, then don't use conifers. If they get too big and you chop them, they will be brown and ugly in the middle.

Get yourself some bare rooted or cell grown plants- this is the perfect time of year for planting. Use a mix of indigenous species. Prune the top out too to encourage more side growth.

You can buy them at various heights already. Very cheap.

You can also buy "ready" hedging in sections and just transplant them. Quick but expensive. 

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

. If they get too big and you chop them, they will be brown and ugly in the middle.

 

Like Michael Jackson

It's been absolutely pissing it down for five hours now

I've never known anything like it

1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It's been absolutely pissing it down for five months now

I've never known anything like it

 

Yeah I can't really blame anyone for fucking off in winter, the British climate in autumn/winter is abject and to be honest just going to get worse

Edited January 2, 20242 yr by jmjhb

2 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It's been absolutely pissing it down for five years now

I've never known anything like it

 

Been here since Xmas Day. First time I've seen the sun, briefly, was NYD.

Dont know how people do this. 

 

Another storm due in 

Relentless 

It's just grim, I reckon it must have rained every day for at least a month now. It's absolutely chucking it down at the minute as well, properly chucking it down. Even the dogs are refusing to go out in it

Sure some of our puddles have now got carp in.

Looking a bit dire for this afternoon. 

Going to need a fucking ark at this rate.

 

it’s 

just

weather

4 hours ago, jayjayoghani said:

Been here since Xmas Day. First time I've seen the sun, briefly, was NYD.

Dont know how people do this. 

 

Boxing Day was nice 

Maybe a period of brightness to look forward to.

Two different weather apps saying from around Thursday/Friday we could be in for around 10 days of clear skies.

Temps around 5 in the day, and zero or a touch higher at night.

 

57 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Maybe a period of brightness to look forward to.

Two different weather apps saying from around Thursday/Friday we could be in for around 10 days of clear skies.

Temps around 5 in the day, and zero or a touch higher at night.

 

I hope you are right, crisp winters days are ace for a good walk and by Christ I need some of them now.

Still raining 

Drove 3 hours from north Wales back home 

Pretty much torrential rain all the way home 

Surface water on the M56 was pretty hairy, not just driving through it but having it fly at you from the opposite lane sporadically 

Fields flooded all over the place in Wales