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[stickygirl]

I'm sticking to the creature comforts of my bed thanks

Me too, but it was still under the moon. Big moon atm.
I'm not a hot weather person. I was out for three hours in it today 31c and now have a thumping head like I used to as a kid. If I drink anymore I'll dissolve

 

[butters]

Me too, but it was still under the moon. Big moon atm.
I'm not a hot weather person. I was out for three hours in it today 31c and now have a thumping head like I used to as a kid. If I drink anymore I'll dissolve

we're just not built for it. summers here in TN are plain uncomfortable for me, but tonight there's a delightful drop to expected 59 degrees! before it heads back up to about 70 overnight. even that;s better than the 80s though!

And… back in the room.

Sorry about your cat Butters. Still, sounds like you have your hands full with the others.

Kinoke- you’ve reminded me of the box I sealed up last January which is in the cupboard under the stairs. Time to crack it open for a chill blast.

thanks; i liked him but wasn't so emotionally invested and knew he was old and on his way out for days. We've also got another who appears to have decided to come live outdoors here... he may live at one of the neighbours but is here all the time now, spends his nights high up a tree and has the most ridiculously high little meow for a leggy, long-tailed ginger (think joe pasquale!). He loves to be picked up and fussed and has nice fur, so likely isn't a total stray but enjoys hanging out with us more than where he really lives

Another night of sleeping naked under the moon ...

if we tried that here, we'd get eaten alive by bugs!

 

[Titsandclits]

Me too, but it was still under the moon. Big moon atm.
I'm not a hot weather person. I was out for three hours in it today 31c and now have a thumping head like I used to as a kid. If I drink anymore I'll dissolve

I can sympathise with that, I wear a hat in the winter to keep warm and a hat in the summer to fend off the sun and even then I suffer like you do with a stinking headache.

 

[CharlesBonus]

I can sympathise with that, I wear a hat in the winter to keep warm and a hat in the summer to fend off the sun and even then I suffer like you do with a stinking headache.

Me too T&C. Though the bottle of scotch, vodka, beer and 40 B+H may also have something to do with it.

 

[Anastasia1999]

Good morning campers.

It is incredible how I have got used to the high temperatures in my old age I have cycled home from work 3 times this week in 30C+ heat, not a bother on me

Enjoy your weekends in sunny Blighty, we will be shivering in our boots before too long,

PS what’s for breakfast @Titsandclits ?

 

[Titsandclits]

Good morning campers.

It is incredible how I have got used to the high temperatures in my old age I have cycled home from work 3 times this week in 30C+ heat, not a bother on me

Enjoy your weekends in sunny Blighty, we will be shivering in our boots before too long,

PS what’s for breakfast @Titsandclits ?

Pret a manger, chocolate and almond granola with pineapple and passionfruit yoghurt. Mug of tea, no china cups here.

Predicted temp of 35C here today. Once the sun has gone by about 8pm I don’t mind going out. My gardens a wreck

 

[Titsandclits]

Me too T&C. Though the bottle of scotch, vodka, beer and 40 B+H may also have something to do with it.

I’m a proper little angel I wouldn’t know what you are talking about

 

[Anastasia1999]

Pret a manger, chocolate and almond granola with pineapple and passionfruit yoghurt. Mug of tea, no china cups here.

Predicted temp of 35C here today. Once the sun has gone by about 8pm I don’t mind going out. My gardens a wreck

Sounds delicious! I had mango and blueberries and banana with quark and linseeds and chocolate shavings.

oh and a big mug of milky coffee, puuuuurfect.

My garden has turned brown too. Enjoy your day, lovely.

 

[stickygirl]

Pret a manger, chocolate and almond granola with pineapple and passionfruit yoghurt. Mug of tea, no china cups here.

Predicted temp of 35C here today. Once the sun has gone by about 8pm I don’t mind going out. My gardens a wreck

Sames. I've a couple of special plants that get the washing up water ( Ecover so that should be okay ) and the tomatoes are soldiering on. Not sure about the courgettes - they have fruit but are starting to look post-apocalyptic

 

[Titsandclits]

Sames. I've a couple of special plants that get the washing up water ( Ecover so that should be okay ) and the tomatoes are soldiering on. Not sure about the courgettes - they have fruit but are starting to look post-apocalyptic

We have some tomatoes and peppers and quite a lot of pots. I bought a watering system that waters all of those but shrubs in the garden that have withstood spells of no rain in previous years are all shrivelled up. There are going to be some empty spaces next year.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

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[oggbashan]

Sames. I've a couple of special plants that get the washing up water ( Ecover so that should be okay ) and the tomatoes are soldiering on. Not sure about the courgettes - they have fruit but are starting to look post-apocalyptic

I have seven water butts. One is nearly empty, one about half full. The other five are still full =
600 litres.

The tomatoes and recently potted dahlias get watered daily. The pond gets topped up every three or four days, all from the water butts as is the drinking water for passing dogs. The dogs seem to prefer filtered rainwater to tap water.

 

[butters]

we've got an umpteen gallon (no idea, but lots) stock watering tank that sits next to the chicken house and collects all the run-off from the roof... it's used for the pots, some of the close veggies and regular plants, water for the chickens, a drinking spot for insects, and topping up the small pond.
when it's fairly rainy, we tend to empty the tank and allow it to refill/overflow so as not to collect too many breeding mozzies
*waves to all*

last night was glorious! all windows open, no fan on, just a sheet... 59 degrees.

 

[Titsandclits]

we've got an umpteen gallon (no idea, but lots) stock watering tank that sits next to the chicken house and collects all the run-off from the roof... it's used for the pots, some of the close veggies and regular plants, water for the chickens, a drinking spot for insects, and topping up the small pond.
when it's fairly rainy, we tend to empty the tank and allow it to refill/overflow so as not to collect too many breeding mozzies
*waves to all*

last night was glorious! all windows open, no fan on, just a sheet... 59 degrees.

We are hotter than you tonight, it might drop to 65F by 5am if we lucky. There is no natural air movement the fan still on

 

[Btq97]

Well last night was pleasant
Two fans
All the towels
No sleep

 

[stickygirl]

Only in the UK can the weather sulk so convincingly. In winter we regularly endure four days of sulky drizzle - in the dark of course. We sell ourselves the idea that summer will be joyous, full of cute summer dresses and evenings lying on someone's lawn with a glass of grigio listening to the Cocteau Twins. But no! It's like a week of being trapped in the airing cupboard.

In summer we scowl at each other with blotchy faces instead of pallid ones and instead of wet hems on our jeans we've got wet rings under our armpits and it's not the Cocteau twins, it's the neighbours bickering at their kids "Amelia, I said No! but you gawn an done it anyway!" over the noise of their hysterically yapping lock-down dog and the wine's gone warm so it tastes like rancid piss. I've not tasted rancid piss.

We're simply not used to too much of anything in the UK, preferring our four seasons in one day. We're expected to walk briskly with a sensible pullover in our shoulder bag, a telescopic umbrella and change of underwear. We're expected to scowl at one another, no matter what the weather.

They say it's going to rain tomorrow or Tuesday or Wednesday but it'll be too much and rats the size of bears will be flushed from the drains, cars will slide into each other on the motorway because we've forgotten rain, and some Cornish village will be swept into the sea because of beaver deforestation.

I'm taking me brolly and fuck em. I may dance in the rain and have my change of knickers ready.

 

[stickygirl]

I am not sure that the weather has any sensitivity to the arrows you fling its way. It is impervious to our suffering, remaining utterly sociopathic whether it bakes us or soaks us. It is aloof, beyond the reach of out petty bickerings and scowls, I wonder if it even manages an inner smile on those rare occasions when we Brits throw a compliment its way? Whatever we think, the weather has the last laugh, it shapes us and molds our very British character doesn't it?

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
I saw the King Lear 2018 version with Anthony Hopkins. He can act somewhat

 

[Titsandclits]

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
I saw the King Lear 2018 version with Anthony Hopkins. He can act somewhat

Well Shakespeare hath maketh an appearance, that's a first. I'm a philistine, never readth it, never been to seeth it, nor do I want to do either. Well done for quoting it.

 

[frappingwilly]

What's people's favourite crisps ? I really miss Nik Naks and Marmite Walkers.

 

[butters]

What's people's favourite crisps ? I really miss Nik Naks and Marmite Walkers.

walkers cheese and onion

 

[stickygirl]

Well Shakespeare hath maketh an appearance, that's a first. I'm a philistine, never readth it, never been to seeth it, nor do I want to do either. Well done for quoting it.

Had to do it at school but never understood a lot of it. A couple of recommends Mel Gibson's Hamlet was his best acting ever - even I suddenly made sense of 'to be or not to be' and then Anthony Hopkins in anything is good, but his Lear was gripping ( even if I didn't understand much of it - who cares? ). The plot with Lear is he challenged his daughters with a creepy demand "How much do you love me?" when he was only slightly mad, then threw a wobbly, shouts a bit, shouts at the weather proper mad, comes to his senses, everyone dies, The end.

 

[Titsandclits]

Had to do it at school but never understood a lot of it. A couple of recommends Mel Gibson's Hamlet was his best acting ever - even I suddenly made sense of 'to be or not to be' and then Anthony Hopkins in anything is good, but his Lear was gripping ( even if I didn't understand much of it - who cares? ). The plot with Lear is he challenged his daughters with a creepy demand "How much do you love me?" when he was only slightly mad, then threw a wobbly, shouts a bit, shouts at the weather proper mad, comes to his senses, everyone dies, The end.

I'm a bit older than you and I did not have to endure it, probably because I wasn't in the top group for English. I don't believe English was taught particularly well when I was at school because I don't remember any grammar tuition and that annoys the hell out of me now. As for Anthony Hopkins, yes I agree, great actor. Your summary of King Lear is brilliant.

 

[oggbashan]

I enjoyed Shakespeare at school for O and A levels and have performed in Shakespeare plays usually as a non-speaking soldier etc. The drama group never had enough people to take all the parts so friends and relations were dragged in to make up the numbers, often at short notice. Once I had four lines to say. I was called on at two hours' notice. Until I arrived at the venue I didn't even know which play I was in until I saw the notice outside the hall. It was the Scottish play.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Tis raining cats and dogs here, absolutely chucking it down and the power is off and on.

 

[oggbashan]

Tis raining cats and dogs here, absolutely chucking it down and the power is off and on.

We can see rain across the estuary in Essex but none yet locally. Temp is 32 C with high humidity.