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Sacha[_1_] · 14-01-2007, 05:26 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 14/1/07 16:20, in article
, "judith lea"
wrote:

Sacha wrote:
we had a *very* slight frost here this morning. High winds came back for a
bit yesterday afternoon, which was worrying but they died away quickly.
Today is clear and sunny with just a touch of cloud about.
--
Sacha

We have just returned from Cambridge (half way to London) where we met
our daughter and gave her back her baby after spoiling him rotten for
the weekend.

Fun isn't it - and so nice to be able to do the handing back thing, however
much you adore them!

Very bright at Norwich when we left but 1 and a quarter hours later, it
was getting overcast and several degrees cooler . We noticed that the
winds which are still prevalent here, were almost non-existent near
Cambridge - I am so sleep starved and not with just the baby but with
the wind howling at night and the house virtually creaking, it makes me
quite nervous as I have visions of a chimney crashing through the roof.

I hate to hear the wind roaring and rushing around like that but comfort
myself that the house has probably seen and heard worse, so will stand for
another 100 years or so. I hope! This garden lost a large number of
trees in 1990 but the ones that remain are a joy and if we lost one or two
very particular favourites, we'd be genuinely heartbroken, so I tend to
worry more about those in a storm.

At this moment, it is almost still, for a change, bright blue sky
without a cloud, I am really looking forward to the evenings getting
lighter.

For once, our weather sounds a tad similar. The barometer has really shot
up here, after a short bout of cloud and rain this morning. There is not a
breath of wind. Tonight the temp is dropping fast BUT there are big black
clouds on the horizon and one single bright star showing now in the deep
blue of the evening sky which has the merest haze of pink behind it. It's
absolutely beautiful and very dramatic. It's the sort of sky that if
someone other than e.g. Tintoretto tried to paint it, one would go "oh
PURLEASE, keep it for the chocolate box!" ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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