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Tomorrow is looking a very good day for ducks between Southampton and Butser Hill, hoped to go out this afternoon, but my sensible head said gusts of up to ~46mph were a bad idea.
Caught the end of the 7s rugby tonight where there was quite some storm, then realised said staduim was down the road.
It’s raining pretty hard and very windy on the Solent, rained most of the night and looks set in for most of the day. Another day of 35knts but the rain will put a damp squib on the day.
Yesterday at the club it was 35-40knts westerly and we had over 100 windsurfers out blasting around Chichester Harbour.. young and old, new kit/old kit, wave and race kit.. the sun was out and it’s quite unusual to windsurf in boardshorts in the uk...
Nice..
Well the Beer and Cricket festival has been fine for the last three days, but today will probably be wasted. Rather like the Amsterdam team were last night ( and to be fair like they were the preceding three nights). As their match is first today I'm sure they'll appreciate the lie in.
I’ve a completely free day for first time in a month , so of course it’s tipping it down 🙂
The novelty has worn off now.
Can we have the killer death heatwave back please?
Cloud base is just starting to lift down way down in west Cornwall. Sunshine and showers later and then dry for the rest of the week
Drizzle with torrential showers in the Thames Valley at the moment.
Probably too late to save the lawn. Just hoping it doesn't cause the grapes to all split on the vine, a mix of forgetting to prune it last winter and the sunshine mean its gone absolutely crazy and taken over the garden!
4 bad accidents on the M27 between J9 and 13 this morning.
One SUV had crossed the left lane barriers on the hard shoulder and proceeded to drive along the embankment on Portsdown Hill... and then another 3 end to Enders strewn over carriageway about 400mtrs down the road..
Slow down people, it’s windy and it’s raining hard.
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Nice steady rain here, although it seems to have eased a bit now, could do with another couple of days of steady rain to soak into the ground a bit more.
Fairly lazy trope that, every litre you use is litre lost to the middle of the river systems from which your water is sourced PLUS leakage. Also the water companies bought networks that had effort all spent on them since the Victorian era, one of the pushes in to private ownership was the inability of government to fund renewals whereas they could set investment targets for the water cos as part of the licence to operate. They’re far from perfect but have replaced more pipework in the last 20 years than public ownership managed in a hundred. But you carry on.
Water is one of the most basic human needs. Many nations and traditions, in fact, consider water a human right. If water rights are handed over to entities whose declared purpose is to maximise profits rather than to serve the public good, hundreds of millions —
perhaps billions — of people will be elbowed out of their access to water. Multinational corporations are quick to argue that market forces would bring more efficiency to water systems. But the bottom line is that water resources — by their very public nature — require
public oversight to ensure that people, not profits, come first and if there are profits it should go into the public purse not share holders just like in Scotland and Wales.
But I could be wrong.
And sunny Devon isnt today. The beach is on the prom chucking it down with rain and blowing a hooley. Folk Week starts next Friday if the marquees are still up. Time to get in touch with my inner Morris dancer.
Rain might now be stopping before 1800, fingers crossed, I want/need a reasonably dry outdoor ride fix!
Utterly poured down this morning. The wind then also picked up to leave me feeling absolutely freezing on my bike, need to put on weight... Reasonably nice out again now, much cooler though.
I wasn't arguing that private ownership was better per se, just that using the "there are leaks on the network therefore I don't have to give a shit" argument is a load of toss and a pathetically thin excuse for abrogation of the responsibility to use water sensibly.
Moist all day here on the eastern edge of the Sarf Downs. Went body boarding for the first time in 18 months, in a howling gale. Now shattered and listening to the rain bounce off the conservatory
I’ve been saving some trees in my garden in the past week with my hosepipe as they were shedding leaves like me crazy, so today’s first proper rain has been hugely welcome. Fortunately loads of sport in TV.
Biblical rain here in Sweden, made for the most fun day in the bike park this summer. Suberb grip for a while as the dust had turned back to dirt, then the trails became rivers and it was just damn funny!