Posted by Farm1 on January 11, 2007, 5:28 pm
> Isn't it *awful*? We are getting the full fury of it here. One of
my
> daughters was going to drive down from Somerset for the day but I've
asked
> her not to! I really don't like to think of her on the road in
this. And
> yesterday was so lovely, too..... ;-(
The hot weather has finally arrived here - 38 degrees C today and
yesterday. And I've done all my outside work by 9.00am so I don't
have to go outside again today.
Posted by Alan Holmes on January 12, 2007, 11:12 am
>> Isn't it *awful*? We are getting the full fury of it here. One of
> my
>> daughters was going to drive down from Somerset for the day but I've
> asked
>> her not to! I really don't like to think of her on the road in
> this. And
>> yesterday was so lovely, too..... ;-(
> The hot weather has finally arrived here - 38 degrees C today and
> yesterday. And I've done all my outside work by 9.00am so I don't
> have to go outside again today.
Blimmy, I'm not even up at that time, never mind having done any work,
whatever that is!
Alan
>
Posted by Alan Holmes on January 10, 2007, 6:18 am
>>
>>>what seeds, plants, bulbs have people ordered for this year? Anything
>>>new
>>>for you?
>>
>> I've got a couple of new catalogs, and I'm keen to expand the few
>> blackcurrants I put in last year. I've asked my sweetie to look through
>> the catalogs and make suggestions, and some Pagan spring planting rituals
>> will be in order.
>>
>> So far in the Northeastern American colonies, we really haven't had
>> winter,
>> but predictions are for something resembling it to come in as a Canadian
>> import in the next few days.
>>
> Neither have we in the Westcountry of England, record overnight
> temperatures of 12.3 C last night in Devon ( we're verboten to know what
> that is in Fahrenheit ).
For a rough estimate, double it and add 30!
Alan
> Andy
>
Posted by Des Higgins on January 10, 2007, 6:49 am
>>
>>>
>>>>what seeds, plants, bulbs have people ordered for this year? Anything
>>>>new
>>>>for you?
>>>
>>> I've got a couple of new catalogs, and I'm keen to expand the few
>>> blackcurrants I put in last year. I've asked my sweetie to look through
>>> the catalogs and make suggestions, and some Pagan spring planting
>>> rituals
>>> will be in order.
>>>
>>> So far in the Northeastern American colonies, we really haven't had
>>> winter,
>>> but predictions are for something resembling it to come in as a Canadian
>>> import in the next few days.
>>>
>> Neither have we in the Westcountry of England, record overnight
>> temperatures of 12.3 C last night in Devon ( we're verboten to know what
>> that is in Fahrenheit ).
> For a rough estimate, double it and add 30!
I was brough up with feet, inches, pounds, stones, miles and LSD (old money)
but I was lucky to have always used Centigrade. I am not sure why, but it
was usually commoner in Ireland, certainly since the 1960s. Do younger
(i.e. under age of 40 :-) UK folks use centigrade or farenheit?
Farenheit is hard work.
I lived in Germany for a bit and have now gotten used to kilos and
kilometers and have been using decimal currency since it came in but still
cannot get used to measuring people (height or weight) except in feet and
stones.
Temperature in centigrade is nice and simple though, thankfully.
> Alan
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
Posted by Cat(h) on January 10, 2007, 11:24 am
Sacha wrote:
> what seeds, plants, bulbs have people ordered for this year? Anything new
> for you? Any new plants you haven't tried before.
I find this most disturbing... You know, some of us (the fair weather
gardening kind) don't venture into our "pleasant outdoor room" until
the risk of sinking past our knees in the lawn on the way to the veg
patch is well passed. That might explain why we have to get 90% of our
tomato trusses in for final ripening at the end of the season, mind...
Anyway, some of us are still in gardening hibernation :-)
> For those of you for whom the weather is calm and pleasant - no gloating
> please!
It has been, for almost 24 hours. Naaaaaanaaaaaanananaaaaaaaaah.
Cat(h)
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> daughters was going to drive down from Somerset for the day but I've
asked
> her not to! I really don't like to think of her on the road in