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Sacha 31-01-2004 04:23 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)


David Hill 31-01-2004 04:39 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
We have a bit of a breeze here as well, infact apart from going shopping
this morning I am staying in, and out of the rain, We had 1.5 inches over
night, and I don't know how much today.
Not a day to be working under glass.......or outside for that matter.

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk





nambucca 31-01-2004 05:59 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Only wish the gales here would fell a few ugly conifers and tatty fence
panels


"David Hill" wrote in message
...
We have a bit of a breeze here as well, infact apart from going shopping
this morning I am staying in, and out of the rain, We had 1.5 inches over
night, and I don't know how much today.
Not a day to be working under glass.......or outside for that matter.

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk







nambucca 31-01-2004 06:13 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Only wish the gales here would fell a few ugly conifers and tatty fence
panels


"David Hill" wrote in message
...
We have a bit of a breeze here as well, infact apart from going shopping
this morning I am staying in, and out of the rain, We had 1.5 inches over
night, and I don't know how much today.
Not a day to be working under glass.......or outside for that matter.

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk







nambucca 31-01-2004 06:22 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Only wish the gales here would fell a few ugly conifers and tatty fence
panels


"David Hill" wrote in message
...
We have a bit of a breeze here as well, infact apart from going shopping
this morning I am staying in, and out of the rain, We had 1.5 inches over
night, and I don't know how much today.
Not a day to be working under glass.......or outside for that matter.

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk







Rod 31-01-2004 06:42 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Sacha wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.

at
I used to hate weather like th
--
Rod
http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html
My email address needs weeding.

Rod 31-01-2004 07:23 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Sacha wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


Oops stiff gardener's thumbs or should that be gardener's stiff thumbs. What I
meant to say was, yes I experienced that kind of thing when working in the prop
unit at the rose nursery, evening overtime usually when the wind would get up
and stuff would start flying arount the nursery and the sound of breaking glass
in the darkness. Frightening. We had our weather here on Wednesday afternoon -
a squall swept in from the north west, straight down the Irish sea. We were in
the middle of felling a tree on the exposed northern edge of the garden. We got
the full blast of horizontal sleet/snow freezing on the trees as it landed. It
only lasted about an hour but by the time we had the tree down and everthing
packed up we were soaked. Stupid weather we've had 11C today, wind is not bad -
around 5 I suppose.
--
Rod
http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html
My email address needs weeding.

Rod 31-01-2004 07:28 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Sacha wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


Oops stiff gardener's thumbs or should that be gardener's stiff thumbs. What I
meant to say was, yes I experienced that kind of thing when working in the prop
unit at the rose nursery, evening overtime usually when the wind would get up
and stuff would start flying arount the nursery and the sound of breaking glass
in the darkness. Frightening. We had our weather here on Wednesday afternoon -
a squall swept in from the north west, straight down the Irish sea. We were in
the middle of felling a tree on the exposed northern edge of the garden. We got
the full blast of horizontal sleet/snow freezing on the trees as it landed. It
only lasted about an hour but by the time we had the tree down and everthing
packed up we were soaked. Stupid weather we've had 11C today, wind is not bad -
around 5 I suppose.
--
Rod
http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html
My email address needs weeding.

Rod 31-01-2004 07:56 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
Sacha wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


Oops stiff gardener's thumbs or should that be gardener's stiff thumbs. What I
meant to say was, yes I experienced that kind of thing when working in the prop
unit at the rose nursery, evening overtime usually when the wind would get up
and stuff would start flying arount the nursery and the sound of breaking glass
in the darkness. Frightening. We had our weather here on Wednesday afternoon -
a squall swept in from the north west, straight down the Irish sea. We were in
the middle of felling a tree on the exposed northern edge of the garden. We got
the full blast of horizontal sleet/snow freezing on the trees as it landed. It
only lasted about an hour but by the time we had the tree down and everthing
packed up we were soaked. Stupid weather we've had 11C today, wind is not bad -
around 5 I suppose.
--
Rod
http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html
My email address needs weeding.

Janet Baraclough .. 31-01-2004 08:39 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's been torrentially wet here, but mild and no snow in our sheltered
neck of the woods. Impossible to do anything outdoors so we set off at
mid-day to go to a fundraiser soup-lunch-and-bookstall on the other side
of the island. A mile away, we started up into the hills of the colder
central zone and within a hundred yards found the rain falling as snow.
Still it wasn't bad so we kept going, noticing the strange lack of other
traffic. About a mile later the snow was very thick and slushy on the
road and I wanted to turn back, but it's a very narrow road and a
slippery manoevre right on the edge of an unfenced drop into the valley
didn't appeal..so we carried on up until flagged down by a police
landrover whose driver said "It's even worse further on; dead slow and
take care". It was :-(. We *crawled* over the hillside road, and
slithered down the far side, back to sea level and horizontal high
velocity sleet. After taking an hour to drive 13 miles, arrived at a
village hall to an exceptionally warm welcome as nobody else had turned
up. Had choice of three good soups, yummy home baking, and bought "Wild
gardens" by Jackie Bennett for 25p. We came home the unsnowy coastal
way, 35 miles, floody roads lined with flowering gorse. Still no snow
here :-)

Janet. (Arran)

Janet Baraclough .. 31-01-2004 08:39 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's been torrentially wet here, but mild and no snow in our sheltered
neck of the woods. Impossible to do anything outdoors so we set off at
mid-day to go to a fundraiser soup-lunch-and-bookstall on the other side
of the island. A mile away, we started up into the hills of the colder
central zone and within a hundred yards found the rain falling as snow.
Still it wasn't bad so we kept going, noticing the strange lack of other
traffic. About a mile later the snow was very thick and slushy on the
road and I wanted to turn back, but it's a very narrow road and a
slippery manoevre right on the edge of an unfenced drop into the valley
didn't appeal..so we carried on up until flagged down by a police
landrover whose driver said "It's even worse further on; dead slow and
take care". It was :-(. We *crawled* over the hillside road, and
slithered down the far side, back to sea level and horizontal high
velocity sleet. After taking an hour to drive 13 miles, arrived at a
village hall to an exceptionally warm welcome as nobody else had turned
up. Had choice of three good soups, yummy home baking, and bought "Wild
gardens" by Jackie Bennett for 25p. We came home the unsnowy coastal
way, 35 miles, floody roads lined with flowering gorse. Still no snow
here :-)

Janet. (Arran)

martin 31-01-2004 08:47 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:11:05 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's Beaufort 9 in Zuid Holland at the moment.
--
Martin

martin 31-01-2004 08:47 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:11:05 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's Beaufort 9 in Zuid Holland at the moment.
--
Martin

Janet Baraclough .. 31-01-2004 08:58 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's been torrentially wet here, but mild and no snow in our sheltered
neck of the woods. Impossible to do anything outdoors so we set off at
mid-day to go to a fundraiser soup-lunch-and-bookstall on the other side
of the island. A mile away, we started up into the hills of the colder
central zone and within a hundred yards found the rain falling as snow.
Still it wasn't bad so we kept going, noticing the strange lack of other
traffic. About a mile later the snow was very thick and slushy on the
road and I wanted to turn back, but it's a very narrow road and a
slippery manoevre right on the edge of an unfenced drop into the valley
didn't appeal..so we carried on up until flagged down by a police
landrover whose driver said "It's even worse further on; dead slow and
take care". It was :-(. We *crawled* over the hillside road, and
slithered down the far side, back to sea level and horizontal high
velocity sleet. After taking an hour to drive 13 miles, arrived at a
village hall to an exceptionally warm welcome as nobody else had turned
up. Had choice of three good soups, yummy home baking, and bought "Wild
gardens" by Jackie Bennett for 25p. We came home the unsnowy coastal
way, 35 miles, floody roads lined with flowering gorse. Still no snow
here :-)

Janet. (Arran)

Janet Baraclough .. 31-01-2004 09:04 PM

The weather and so MUCH of it!
 
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.


It's been torrentially wet here, but mild and no snow in our sheltered
neck of the woods. Impossible to do anything outdoors so we set off at
mid-day to go to a fundraiser soup-lunch-and-bookstall on the other side
of the island. A mile away, we started up into the hills of the colder
central zone and within a hundred yards found the rain falling as snow.
Still it wasn't bad so we kept going, noticing the strange lack of other
traffic. About a mile later the snow was very thick and slushy on the
road and I wanted to turn back, but it's a very narrow road and a
slippery manoevre right on the edge of an unfenced drop into the valley
didn't appeal..so we carried on up until flagged down by a police
landrover whose driver said "It's even worse further on; dead slow and
take care". It was :-(. We *crawled* over the hillside road, and
slithered down the far side, back to sea level and horizontal high
velocity sleet. After taking an hour to drive 13 miles, arrived at a
village hall to an exceptionally warm welcome as nobody else had turned
up. Had choice of three good soups, yummy home baking, and bought "Wild
gardens" by Jackie Bennett for 25p. We came home the unsnowy coastal
way, 35 miles, floody roads lined with flowering gorse. Still no snow
here :-)

Janet. (Arran)


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