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Old 31-08-2008, 07:54 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default has the Met office lost the plot?

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Last night I checked today's forecast for my area, it was: Sunny
intervals up until early evening then heavy rain and thunderstorms. I
woke up this morning to thick fog and it's now raining. This means that
last nights forecast was 100% wrong, in fact I can't remember when we
last had a reasonably correct forecast in the last few months but I
suppose there must have been some.
While I appreciate it's a difficult art surely they, with all the super
computers etc they have, they could do better than this.


Forecast was spot-on for here - so far.


Looking forward to the heavy showers this evening...


Sorry to follow-up my own post but...

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...--iver_001.jpg

As well as a comment on the accuracy of my forecasting, there is some
progress on the front garden, lilac trimmed to a third of its previous
size; truncating holly tree to about a foot in height; (both actions
letting in light to grape vines, hunza aprocot, cranberries and figs);
hammering-in of posts for supporting cordons/espaliers, etc; Advance Of
The Rhubarb; earthworks, stoneworks, staithe...

....Oh, and just visible over next-door's hedge, half the cheapo tubular
garden-arch, up which has been started some evergreen honeysuckle,
varigated ivy, a dark blue clematis, and when I've rooted it, a
well-known mauve-flowered clematis.

I hope this lot will interweave to produce a tolerably waterproof 'porch'.

I bought two of these archesand a longth of studding, which means I can
extend the arch to twice its intended width, and still have enough
pieces to make a complete hoop.

What to do with it mind, is a moot point.

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Rusty
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