Rainy day

Posted on September 20, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged brolly, Car, grate, gutter, kerb, Life, Rain, Thinking, Time, walking stick, Water, Weather, WindowLeave a comment

Yes it’s raining a lot here in England, so wet I dare not go out. I’m not allowed to get my face wet or get water or grit in my eye.

I really want to go out and do some shopping. I need to get cat food, but it’s still raining after about 12 hours. But I can hear the cars splashing through the water outside the front door. It’s only 2 or 3 steps to my car. But I need to use a brolly and my walking stick, so by the time I’ve put them in the car I will get soaked. Luckily I’m parked right by the pavement so I don’t need to step through a rushing river of water that runs down the gutter. The grates for the run off are full.

Anyway I’m off to grab a coffee… Decaff of course.

Summer ending

Posted on September 9, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Plants, Rain, Sad, Summer, Watering, wilted1 Comment

Most of my hanging baskets have survived a very dry summer as I watered them every few days. But I made the mistake of thinking the rain that has been falling heavily for the last few days would suffice. And because I have trouble negotiating around the yard I haven’t done any watering! Big mistake. Because I had two hanging baskets hung underneath another two baskets. Usually when I water the top ones the water runs into the bottom ones, but then I also do the lower ones to make sure they are thoroughly wet. The rain just didn’t penetrate and the two lower baskets are now badly wilted. I doubt they will be able to recover as the nights are getting cooler and the growing season is almost over. They have also gone to seed. Drat!

But the photo shows one of the healthy ones…. If only I’d done the watering!

Send us rain

Posted on August 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Canals, Clouds, Life, parched, Poem, Poetry, Rain, rivers, Showers, Water, Weather3 Comments

Send us mares tails that precede rain.

Send clouds full of water

England’s Green is fading

Brown fields abound

River levels dropping

Paddle your canoes no more

Canal boats stuck in place

High and dry on mud!

Give us a cup or two of rain

To water our parched countryside

Let the land drink

Again.

Orchid

Posted on August 4, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, cataract, Choir, Flowers, Growing, Orchids, Rain, Shower, Singing, Weather1 Comment

I didn’t notice but one of my orchids has flowered. Not a good photo, lots of camera shake. You can just see there are a few lower buds yet to open.

Today I got soaked walking 100 yards to choir practice. I can’t drive and I struggle to manage with a walking stick and a brolly, so I left it behind It was drizzling when I went out but it came down heavy as I walked along. So much so it was raining into my eyes. I was told not to get water in my eye that had been operated on. I avoided doing it in the shower but unfortunately the weather got the better of me. Still I have antibiotic eye drops to put in.

Which reminds me I’d better water the orchids.

Drought?

Posted on June 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged amber alert, Britain, Fog, Hail, Heat, Life, Rain, Snow, Sunshine, temperatures, Weather3 Comments

Oh for some rain, but today came the news that there is an amber heat warning for parts of Britain. That means there is some danger to health for people, especially for the vulnerable ones. There might be a cooler week next week, but that doesn’t mean rain.

In other news we had reports that we can expect temperatures of up to 40°Celcius in future years, that’s a lot higher than we are used to. Britain has a maritime weather system, meaning weather coming from all directions and all sorts of types. Rain, wind, sleet, hail, snow, sun, fog, mist, drizzle, gales, thunder and even tornadoes and water spouts, we get it all!

Eating too many

Posted on June 13, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cold, Food, Heat, Ice cream, puthery, Rain, Sugar, Summer, Thunderstorms, Time, Too manyLeave a comment

It’s been just too hot and humid. I’m tired out so I’ve eaten far too many ice creams over the past two or three weeks. Even when it rains it stays warm and it’s very humid too. I don’t know when it will let up. I keep sleeping in my chair and I can’t sleep in bed because I either feel cold or hot. Tomorrow it might be thundering. (us brits don’t understand humidity, we call it puthery round here)…..

Rain due

Posted on April 12, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged April, Countryside, dry, Fires, global warming, High pressure, Life, March, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Showers, Spring, WaterLeave a comment

Pressure dropping

Rain from the west

Due to fall

Maybe just April showers

We need it

We have fires burning

In the countryside

Dry March and April

And high pressure

Blue skies are lovely

Sunshine is great

But sometimes the rain

Must fall.

Sunshine and showers

Posted on March 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1886, Flowers, Poem, Poetry, Rain, rain drops, Showers, Sky, Spring, Summer, Weather2 Comments

What is your favorite type of weather?

Not all nlue

Clouds too

Drops of rain

As showers hit the plain

The smell of damp ground

Soils compound

Life giving water

Flowers start to mound

Up to the sky

Blue bells and forget me nots

Softly watered…..

Four leaves

Posted on February 1, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged clover, Description, dew, Four, Green, Leaves, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Rain, three, Time, WaterLeave a comment

Four leaf clover,

just green and neat.

Splattered with dew or rain

Contrasted against black

How to describe it more?

Thin stem from its centre

Leaves splayed out lobes.

Striped with thin veins

Each curved gently

Upper surface dips downward

Four fan shaped

Instead of the usual three

Lucky?

Memory of the one I found….

Really low pressure

Posted on January 28, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barometer, Cold, Low pressure, much rain, passing storms, Photo, Rain, storm Herminia, Weather2 Comments

I decided to tap my barometer last night because I haven’t set it in a while. Tapping it allows the (black) pointer to move. It was on change, but it flew down to much rain last night. It’s been raining all morning and the pressure has not risen again. I think this is because another named storm is passing over the UK again, the second in recent days. It’s called Herminia. There is a third heading our way tomorrow. What fun (not).

Mallaband-Brown

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