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31-01-2004, 04:23 PM
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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) |
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31-01-2004, 04:39 PM
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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 |
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31-01-2004, 05:59 PM
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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 |
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31-01-2004, 06:13 PM
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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 |
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31-01-2004, 06:22 PM
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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 |
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#6
31-01-2004, 06:42 PM
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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. |
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31-01-2004, 07:23 PM
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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. |
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31-01-2004, 07:28 PM
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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. |
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31-01-2004, 07:56 PM
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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. |
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#10
31-01-2004, 08:39 PM
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The weather and so MUCH of it!
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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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31-01-2004, 08:39 PM
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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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#12
31-01-2004, 08:47 PM
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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 |
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31-01-2004, 08:47 PM
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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 |
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#14
31-01-2004, 08:58 PM
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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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31-01-2004, 09:04 PM
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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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