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High winds again tonight for the third night in a row. We seem to be having
a recently established pattern of fairly pleasant days, getting colder in
the afternoon and then with these high winds at night. The first blast down
the chimney tonight was so loud that I thought it was a muffled explosion
somewhere. In warmer months we get sulky days and then the sun comes out at
5pm. I have no idea if it's weather in the region in general, or because we
are located between moor and sea but changeable weather is a phrase that
could have been coined for our area!
The upside is that some daffs have very promising and ripe buds on them and
once those and some more snowdrops start to open, I'll feel very confident
of spring arriving soon.
The birds are behaving strangely too. Jackdaws have started chittering away
on top of my study chimney and sparrows are flying up into the eaves as if
inspecting new homes - I saw at least half a dozen do that this morning.
And a male blackbird perched on the fatball and seed feeder outside my
(first floor) study window today. This is the fifth time I've seen him do
that this year and is something I've never seen before. He's pecking at the
fatball, not the seeds. Instead of being on a stable and flat bird table,
he's clinging to a 'blowing in the wind' arrangement, which is something I
thought blackbirds really didn't like?
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High winds again tonight for the third night in a row. We seem to be
having
a recently established pattern of fairly pleasant days, getting colder in
the afternoon and then with these high winds at night. The first blast
down
the chimney tonight was so loud that I thought it was a muffled explosion
somewhere. In warmer months we get sulky days and then the sun comes out
at
5pm. I have no idea if it's weather in the region in general, or because
we
are located between moor and sea but changeable weather is a phrase that
could have been coined for our area!
The upside is that some daffs have very promising and ripe buds on them
and
once those and some more snowdrops start to open, I'll feel very confident
of spring arriving soon.
The birds are behaving strangely too. Jackdaws have started chittering
away
on top of my study chimney and sparrows are flying up into the eaves as if
inspecting new homes - I saw at least half a dozen do that this morning.
And a male blackbird perched on the fatball and seed feeder outside my
(first floor) study window today. This is the fifth time I've seen him do
that this year and is something I've never seen before. He's pecking at
the
fatball, not the seeds. Instead of being on a stable and flat bird table,
he's clinging to a 'blowing in the wind' arrangement, which is something I
thought blackbirds really didn't like?
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http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk


Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy city!
Just took a Woodside dog out for a walk around the Plym and it was raining
and blowing...let's you know you're alive. There were some sort of geese (I
think) settled in a nearby field.

I have found recently that if you get those large pomegranites that taste
nothing like pomegranites and cut the top off and spike them on a post, the
blackbirds have a lovely time pecking the fruit out. Also saw a fox along
the beach by Kingsand go by with a rabbit in it's mouth yesterday. It never
saw me and just carried on.


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Plymouth In Bloom Gold Award 2007
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On 10 Jan, 13:07, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
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Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy city!


Oh no you're not! At least not today. Now, do you have horizontal
falling rain? We do!!


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On 10 Jan, 13:07, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
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Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy
city!


Oh no you're not! At least not today. Now, do you have horizontal
falling rain? We do!!


Ha! ok I'll defer to you today! Stopped now though


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On 10 Jan, 13:07, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
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Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy
city!


Oh no you're not! At least not today. Now, do you have horizontal
falling rain? We do!!


Dreadful here on the South Coast of the Isle of Wight. :-((

To think, I was sunbathing in the Canaries only a few days ago :-))

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Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy
city!


Oh no you're not! At least not today. Now, do you have horizontal
falling rain? We do!!


Dreadful here on the South Coast of the Isle of Wight. :-((

To think, I was sunbathing in the Canaries only a few days ago :-))

Mike


I have just listened to our local weather forecast and the man told me that
anyone living near the River Severn could be in big trouble, we are a couple
of fields away but a great deal higher so I think we are safe, I will
however go out and clear a few drains just to make sure :-).

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On 9 Jan, 23:25, Sacha wrote:
High winds again tonight for the third night in a row.


Our local paper is full of pictures of "flooding" - streams spreading
across fields and the river across water meadows at Stamford, for
example.
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/new...ded.3686664.jp

This is no more than we are used to. I can recall it happening every
winter between 1965 and 1985 to personal memory. The sight of the
severn breaking its banks in Gloucstershire was a regular winter sight
as far back as I can recall. Whittlesea Wash south of Peterborough
would be under a foot of water for months on end.

Yes, the stour south of Derby is out of it's banks - but no different
from any other year. I recall in 1974 being towed through it on a
large-wheeled trailer by the AA, who were only ferrying their own
members.

The papers do like making a fuss, don't they?



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On 9 Jan, 23:25, Sacha wrote:
High winds again tonight for the third night in a row.


Our local paper is full of pictures of "flooding" - streams spreading
across fields and the river across water meadows at Stamford, for
example.
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/new...ued-from-stran
ded.3686664.jp

This is no more than we are used to. I can recall it happening every
winter between 1965 and 1985 to personal memory. The sight of the
severn breaking its banks in Gloucstershire was a regular winter sight
as far back as I can recall. Whittlesea Wash south of Peterborough
would be under a foot of water for months on end.

Yes, the stour south of Derby is out of it's banks - but no different
from any other year. I recall in 1974 being towed through it on a
large-wheeled trailer by the AA, who were only ferrying their own
members.

The papers do like making a fuss, don't they?

The vicar of Tewkesbury was making a plea on the radio the other day, to
the effect that all the press coverage was making people think that
Tewkesbury was flooded out, but that in fact, the flood plains were
doing what they were supposed to, ie flood, that all the shops were open
for business, and Tewkesbury needed people to come as usual.



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On Jan 18, 2:15�pm, K wrote:
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On 9 Jan, 23:25, Sacha wrote:
High winds again tonight for the third night in a row.


Our local paper is full of pictures of "flooding" - streams spreading
across fields and the river across water meadows at Stamford, for
example.
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/new...ued-from-stran
ded.3686664.jp


This is no more than we are used to. �I can recall it happening every
winter between 1965 and 1985 to personal memory. �The sight of the
severn breaking its banks in Gloucstershire was a regular winter sight
as far back as I can recall. �Whittlesea Wash south of Peterborough
would be under a foot of water for months on end.


Yes, the stour south of Derby is out of it's banks - but no different
from any other year. �I recall in 1974 being towed through it on a
large-wheeled trailer by the AA, who were only ferrying their own
members.


The papers do like making a fuss, don't they?


The vicar of Tewkesbury was making a plea on the radio the other day, to
the effect that all the press coverage was making people think that
Tewkesbury was flooded out, but that in fact, the flood plains were
doing what they were supposed to, ie flood, that all the shops were open
for business, and Tewkesbury needed people to come as usual.



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We are one of the lucky ones that don't get flooding. I am however
fed up with all this rain. When you work all week the last thing I
want to do is stop in at the weekend because of pouring rain. Roll on
the summer when we can all get out more
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