"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 20/12/06 18:55, in article , "Keith
(Dorset)" wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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-2C here last night. Mercifully there's no wind but my goodness, it's
cold!
Frost is still lying in one or two parts of the garden which haven't
felt
the sun of a glorious winter's day. Tonight, the temperature is
falling
like a stone and after a trip to the chiropractor for both of us, the
cold
almost undid all the good he'd done to our creaky spines.
Yesterday morning, Ray looked out of our bedroom window at about 7.30am
and
exclaimed at the extraordinary sight of what looked like a bright red
light
shining some distance away. It was almost fluorescent. It was only
after a
few moments observation that we realised it was the sun. We've never
seen
anything quite like it and in mediaeval times, I think it would have
been
a
portent, though of what, I don't know. When I did the well worn "red
sky
in
the morning..." Ray chipped in with "shepherd's cottage on fire"! Last
week
we woke up to a sunrise that was pink right across the sky, looking
exactly
like a sunset. The times they are a-changing!
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Well it looks like we might even get a touch of frost as well tonight...
'dashed inconvenient' as we still have geranium / pelars' in flower on
the
patio - and the rhubarb has started to come up (outside uncovered)!
Keith
Portland - 'out in the sea'
I'd take them all in or cover them with fleece or newspaper. Touch of
frost, indeed. Pah! ;-)
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
First white lawn last night and tonight it feels colder so I have drained
the mist unit and switched on the second heat mat (forgot last year and it
cost me a small fortune to replace all the damaged bits!) Hope my newly
germinate grass seed will be ok, teach me to be complacent :~)
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea