Eh? Who was it? Who’s made off with the ‘summer’? And replaced it with a highly accurate replica of January?

Could it be…..

Whoever it was, I’m not remotely amused 🙁

you’re from the north aren’t you ?

we’re just enjoying a well needed watering down here.

Half an apple tree in our garden blew down yesterday here in Hove.

It’s older than our house which was built in 1930 🙁

Went for a walk yesterday, I got cold, wet and my fingers got a little numb. It felt like Autumn, I was not best impressed.

Well, I’m simply impressed how similar this year has been to the last three. Consistent weather patterns, in the UK? Strange…

after 2wks in Barbados, I am seriously considering putting the heating on 😯

Dry trails are too fast and I get all scared. Looks like my rain dance worked. woohoo?

I dont think its gone to bad yet, it rained alot over the weekend but it still feels pretty warm.

The Oxonian micro climate has once again been spectacular. Bit of rain, but the ground drys almost as quickly as it gets wet.

I love the South.

I walked past the log burner last night and nearly checked my stride long enough to light it…

This is the cumulative annual rainfall for round our way.

Still very low down on last few years though 🙁

and cumulative sunshine is UP.

Doesnt feel like it…

Linky http://www.malvernwx.co.uk/

you do love a graph don’t you stoner 😆

It was me 🙁

I fitted the semi-slick rear tyre on the bouncy bike.

I took the SS kit off the hardtail and replaced it with the new-fangled “9 single speeds and a mechanical actuator that allows me to change them at will from a bar mounted controller”.

On the plus side, a trail I was scared of a few weeks ago due to it’s off camber and steep-ness, is now such a big rutt that it’s an off the brakes berm!

Anyone got some swamp-things I could borrow to bring summer back?

Have to say I love those graphs too…

2007 rainfall line is brilliant.

Yep, I luv me charts I do 🙂

Summer, 2007, round our way:

LOL… properly pissed on my chips as I was trying to get across to FOD that weekend!

Still, I couldn’t get to work either so I had to look on the bright side. 😀

to cross the severn people were having to drive as far north as shrewsbury and then back down the west side.

Yeah, I would’ve got caught out like ‘Dr Foster’.

Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester
On a railway train
But he got in a muddle
And got off at Bristol
And said “Oh shit not again”

see that really deep bit in the middle of the pic above..? where you can’t see the tops of the hedges by the wooded copse there..?

That’s my mates dads smallholding that is..

Fortunately they had the forethought to build their house on stilts..

If I were to build a house on a flood plain, id sink big pontoon piles into the subsoil and have build the house on a steel raft that could go up and down with the floodwaters.

In fact sod that, Id build it in the tidal stretch of the river in the first place for a laugh!

a proper shed for the flood prone areas of the country;