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I understand that we had an hour's worth of thunderstorms accompanied by torrential rain and almost constant lightning around midnight last night. I say "understand" as I missed it all and snored quite contentedly through the whole shebang. In fact Mrs WN did say the thunderstorms didn't make as much noise as I did!
I do have previous but that was in a caravan and didn't believe it until the CL owner confirmed it to me. Yet I can hear a dog barking 2 miles away. Go figure.
Called in to the library to collect a "Click and Collect" takeaway bag of maps that I requested. First time in to see everyone. Strange seeing all that hair!
I wouldn't get away with a bank robbery as they recognised me straightaway with my sunglasses and mask on. There's goes another job opportunity.Went to our "local" for lunch with the 2 ladies. Had a smashing time and the Pub did a grand job of keeping everyone distanced with regular cleaning of tables and chairs etc. The 3 of us enjoyed it plus we got £30 off the bill.
Off soon to the hospital. Seems weird going for an evening appointment.
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Hope everything goes ok WN.
Funny kind of day here, warmer but no sun, not as warm as they forecast, so still in long's.
Washed the caravan and got all the marks of it.
OH washed my car and gave the wheel arches a good pressure wash.
We've had a couple of thunder claps and heavy rain which only lasted minutes. Sky seems to have cleared now.
brue, no 32c for us more like 22c, which is nice but I wish we had the sun with it instead of clouds.
House got a good tidy up and hoover so feeling smug
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A third scorching hot day in a row here - oh for an overnight thunderstorm just to clear the air and cool things down a bit! Off to (not too sunny, please ) Cornwall tomorrow but definitely won't be heading anywhere crowded - luckily we know plenty of quiet out of the way spots so should be ok!
Sadly, had an email last night to say that our walking holiday in Italy has been cancelled
- probably for the best, certainly in Mrs M's view. So might have to look for a late cottage break somewhere in September.0 -
Was 34c by car thermometer about 1430. Still 2 idots walking dogs on the pavement 😡😡😡, one a husky type. Felt like stopping the car and asking would they like to walk barefoot on the pavement too!
Still 34c at 1600. Far too warm.
This morning we had a few heat spots and it felt like the tropics. Sun came out about noon and swiftly heated up.
Official weather station at Writtle currently 33c.
Try to stay cool folks - I'd like the rain but dont want the storms - really dislike them. Wherenext I'm impressed you slept through. Dont understand why Mrs Wherenext didn't if you're as noisy as she says 🤣🤣🤣. Hope all goes well with your scan.
Tammygirl we hardly get that low overnight at the moment!
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Like mad dogs and Englishmen we went out for a garden walk late this morning. Late because the roads were blocked and at one point we ended up near the Cerne Abbas Giant, who was looking a bit suntanned on the parched hills. We finally got to Minterne Gardens and had a spot of lunch too. Nice walking along the watery bits in the shade, very quiet.
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Yep, it’s boiling here. Our little weather station said 36c at one point, my phone at same period said 33c. No breeze and no sign of rain, although it’s forecast in early hours of morning. It’s so hot I actually have flowers in garden with burning crispy petals😢 Only thing we have done outside today is a shady woodland walk with the pooch, who was bucketed on return home, I cut the lawn while OH fiddled with one or two jobs on MH. Left us both gasping to be honest it’s that hot.
Back when I was at work, and the only female officer in a group of five, I endured the usual scantily clad calendars that were around. My riposte was a poster of the Cerne Abbas Giant in all his glory. It wasn’t a public office I hasten to add. The menfolk got a little upset.......🤣
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Another roasting day here too, We drive over to Montgomery and did a short walk on part of the Offa's Dyke way, but didn't bother with the ascent to the Castleford monument,. The car was in the shade under trees and it was still 28 when we got back to it. Have just had a short shower with accompanying thunder, but it hasn't reduced the temperature much, if at all. Last night was spectacular though, with lightening going on almost continually for well over 2 hrs away to the West of us over mid Wales. They must have suffered from the downpours there too, if the short spell of heavy rain we had was anything to go by.
It's going to be an uncomfortable night in the van tonight, unfortunately.
Hope all went well with the hospital appointment, WN.
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Thanks NTH. Appointment on time. Didn't have physical contact with anyone and saw machine being cleaned before use. No visitors at hospital. So all in all about as good as I could have hoped for. Don't get results for a fortnight though.
I was wondering about whether you got it bad last night as I know mid and west Wales had a rough night. According to the Ladies it was pretty spectacular here. So they say.😁
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Good to hear the hospital was organised for you WN. I wondered too about the storms last night, the lightening pics looked spectacular but not the floods.
Off for an eye test early tomorrow, our predicted storms are later in the day but every day so far they've been forecast and we're still waiting as it gets hotter and hotter.
Seem to have ended up with an extra dog again tonight, daughter is trying to get a few nights away and no-one at home for the dog this week.
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First time we we were down in Lands End area of Cornwall, I spun my OH a nice juicy tale about the Merry Maiden’s Stone Circle. Managed to keep it up for days, adding the odd little gem every now and then, he fell for it hook line and sinker🤣
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More thunder, lightening and rain, been going on now for a couple of hours, just as you think its finished it starts up again. We sit in a bowl of hills and it just keeps going round and round. Don't often get thunder storms here.
Good to hear things at the hospital was well organised WN.
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Very hot here again yesterday got upto 40.4C on weather station far too hot to do anything but did empty two tomato pots as I have picked all the tomatoes off only to find the chafer grubs in the pots I really do hate them and had put a mesh and small stones around the plants to try and stop them, OH busy reinstating a old water butt around the back of his shed to take over fill from a large 1000ltr square cuve still got over 500 litres in it, but we are in need of some rain thunderstorms forecast for the next few days, rivers are very low so no washing of vehicles no hosepipes allowed although the local car wash at Carrefour is still open at present, our friends who live the other side of the river Cele say that there had been a terrific thunderstorm and small tornado around the Figeac area which caused trees to come down and 1 car was cut in half nobody inside and flooding in some of the smaller villages thankfully nobody injured and we had nothing here and we are about 30 miles from here.
Glad you got on ok at the hospital WN.
Enjoy Cornwall Moulesy and hope you can find alternative holiday for September.
Would like your cooler weather Tammygirl, we used to get thunderstorms going around the Malvern Hills when we used to live there.
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Good to hear from you Bakers2. Sorry to hear that you have had another scare with your OH's health but glad they got it sorted out. I hope everything is OK now. You are having such a difficult and emotional time at the moment. Thoughts are with you.
It is extremely hot here and has been for nearly a week. Over 30 degrees most days and VERY hot and humid nights.The poor garden is suffering and I expect a lot of others are as well. It was looking so pretty last month but everything is wilting now despite us watering as much as we can. We have moved all the pots into a more shaded area and go out every night with the watering cans. Our water butts are now empty. I went to buy a new watering can at the weekend as 2 of ours had developed leaks. I finally found the last remaining one in the 3rd garden centre that I went to. Is there a world shortage of watering cans?! We picked up our new car on Friday and are very pleased with it. It is just a shame that it is too hot to go anywhere much in it at the moment. Although I do have to say that the climate control is very efficient.
I am pleased that your scan went well WN and that everything seemed to be well organised. Best of luck with the result
Lovely photos folks.
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Don't need to water anything round Crewe this morning !!
Two hours of Thor's Hammering with the same amount of rain, all around 11:00 ~~ 1:00 last night. Even the two bird baths which were deliberately emptied for sterilization etc are overflowing this morning
Dammit the flashing etc quite spoiled my reading of the two chapters on my kindle so I will read them again this afternoon and have a nap then if its not too hot for comfort ~~ not much stops ABM from snoozing with a book in his hands
So very pleased the medics are behaving nicely for C&MC members, as is only right of course - hope that results are all on the better side of 'as expected ' for everybody !
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What do people think the form should be if you take in a parcel for a neighbour? Is it incumbent on me to deliver said parcel when I can see that said neighbours appear to be home or is it reasonable to expect neighbour to call and collect. We know the postman put a card through the door. Now it's possible they put all post to one side to avoid covid infection and haven't seen the card yet but it's now nearly 24 hours. Should add they are a young couple, an older couple/person I might be more inclined to deliver.
David
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Because we are retired and at home more than many of the immediate neighbours we often get items left with us. Royal Mail deliveries aren't so bad as they always leave a card to say where things are. The problem is more with the increasingly common private deliveries where the driver is desperate to just leave things anywhere and move on to the next one. We usually leave it until the evening and if no one has come round we do, sometimes grudgingly, call round to deliver said items.
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What a night that was, I've never seen or heard so much thunder and lightening as last night. It went on from 9 pm until just after 7.30 am very heavy rain. Lots of flooding everywhere this morning in our city and surrounding areas. Seems even further a field in Scotland areas have been affected.
Up side is we now have sunshine and its getting very warm.
Parcel's we sometime take in parcels for neighbours, we tend to just keep an eye out for when they return home and try and catch them to give it to them, if that fails we usually just take it to them. We are in an area where its not open to passers by, so the delivery folk tend to leave stuff round the back of houses or in bins if small enough, with a note popped through the door telling you where it is.
Boiler service chap just turned up
that's good cause it means we can go out for a bike ride now after lunch. With a bit of luck our MH will be finished today and we can collect it.0 -
If a card is put through the front door it could e a couple of months before it is seen in the porch area because it is hidden by a locked internal door and we don't use the front door. Our mail normally goes in a post box and next door is the same as is across the road.
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The delivery services round my area know our rules David
!!Should my outer porch door be locked them ABM is on Holiday !!
otherwise parcels, packets etc may be left only as long as they have put the required postcard thro' their letterbox. Then should the item be still with me next day they will get a fone call if known or an A5 note attached to the window. I think, not sure, but think that some like Hermes may amend their on-line information to say where the item is.
The system works ok mainly because we do it for each other, it was done for me when I was in hospital, so I do it to help others. Why should I not ?
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We tend to take them round when we see they are home. Both neighbours do the same. If the card is the only thing pushed through it often seems to end up behind the curtain in our house so gets missed. Did have to get the neighbour for one delivery though. A patio set of chairs and tables turned up several days early when they were out. I got the delivery people to put it in our garage. No way I could have delivered it. It took two of us to get it next door.
I think one of the problems is that because of Covid they are putting longer delivery times on just in case. One thing I ordered recently from Amazon had four days and came next day. We were out, but fortunately it fitted through the letter box. Other times we have had to alter what we planned, as it suddenly showed out for delivery on the tracker.
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No rain here so far, just very hot and humid. We just spent 2 hours replacing some rotten log edging. Not such a good idea in 29C and sunny, even though we used a patio umbrella for shade. Both somewhat shattered now. I think that's it for excercise today.😀 Supposed to get to 31 / 32 later.🌞
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33C, a bit earlier than yesterday so too hot even in the shade. 77% chance of a thunderstorm around 10pm...but they keep saying that each night! Back to the broiler once more.
Sorry to read about the rail accident and the flooding.
Went into the town centre for the first time since March, very quiet. Visit was for eye test which was ok but too busy in Specsavers. I assumed there'd just be a handful of people there but people were wandering around, the person on the door keeping "order" had vanished. Glad that's over with!
The post seems to function ok here, we have a good postman who sorts us out along with the parcels! (He tends to know who will receive and pass on etc and who not to leave things with, seems to work.
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That train derailment is looking bad, on top of everything else thrown at Scotland at the moment.☹️
I got up at around 2am last night to watch the light show happening somewhere not far away, odd rumble of thunder. It wasn’t reaching us so I went back to bed. Apparently, half an hour later, it was directly overhead, extremely loud, huge downpour, lots of lightning........but I never heard a thing! It’s very warm again here today, too hot to do much. More storms forecast.
Parcel......I’d just take it round DK. If you don’t know them well, a quick hello and a smile meet reap rewards if ever you need help with something. It’s off your hands then as well. 👍
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Currently 34c at the official weather station in Writtle a couple of miles away. P H E W. A very slight breeze coming up the side of the house and it feels good. No rain keep saying its a possibility but only reckon 1mm if it does.
Cleaner has done a Stirling job so all neat and tidy for the arrival of son and grand dog later. They're here until Sunday, DIL harvesting. First time grand dog and Dora will spend real time together - could be fun 😱
Terrible news about the Scottish train thinking if all those involved.
Tammygirl that was some storm - i hate them I might not have survived! Thats a serious amount of rainfall too.
Milliehull thanks for your kind words- sadly life is like that at times.
Stay cool and safe folks whatever you're doing. I'm having a real lazy day just got veg to prep. Went to the hairdresser this morning glad to get out again as very warm! Despite having a good shear 4 weeks ago, 1st since lockdown, there was plenty to come off. Hairdresser asked if it had got on my nerves as despite thinking she'd taken loads off it clearly wasn't enough 🤣🤣.
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Very warm here all day yesterday and today although our area escaped any thunder storms a very calm night here actually. My brother who stays over in Edinburgh sent me a video last night about 11 and it looked very bad there lightening thunder and heavy rain. Regarding parcels if we get any I will normally watch out for the neighbour coming home and take it to them but normally they would come and collect if they know we have it.
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Just got back from Deerholme Farm CS near Thornton Le Dale after a glorious week of sunshine - even if it was a bit too hot on some days. I'm coming to the conclusion that tolerance to heat is inversely proportional to age!
Car unloaded and washing on (that's not my department) because it's a quick turn around - off to Thornthorpe CS near Malton on Tuesday. Caravan cleaning planned for tomorrow.
Gosh - what hard work, this being on holiday is
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