It has been a long hot summer. The kind of endless summer you remember as a kid, when the sun shines for days on end and it seems like it will last forever. You go to bed at night with the windows open, and then wish you had some kind of screen to stop the enormous moths coming in and divebombing your head. But for … Continue reading Well, that’s a tad disappointing.
Today marks the start of yet another new normal, and just when I was getting used to the last one. The kids headed off to school. The house is decidedly quiet, and Jasper the Dog is patiently awaiting their return by sitting at the window. They’ve been gone less than an hour. It is amazing how much things have changed since they last went to … Continue reading Another New Normal
I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of rain bouncing off the roof. Its deep rhythmic nature sent me peacefully back to sleep knowing I wouldn’t need to worry about the garden for a couple of days. But as the daylight emerged, so did a hearty wind that lasted all day and did a great job of driving off the heat … Continue reading Don’t waste water!
We haven’t had any rain in absolutely ages. In January we had 40mm of rain and while it felt like it was a wet and miserable summer only 10 rainy days were actually wet and most of it came from one day that had 23mm. February had 20 days without a drop and the other 8 days shared out 11mm between them! March wasn’t much … Continue reading I think I broke the drought!
I’m sitting here listening to the sound of a steady, but not too heavy rain falling. It just seems a little odd. We have had very little rain since December and there are all these reports about how dry the summer was, breaking records all over the place. But I won’t bore you with details about the drought as I could go on forever because … Continue reading Normal is actually good, even if it means you may get wet!
The problem with a drought is it sucks not only all the moisture from the air, but it somehow sucks all your energy too. It’s hot outside, it’s only around 25°C but it feels like a million, and after weeks and weeks of dry hot weather it kinda beats you down… I just need to have a wee lie down and dream of rain. The … Continue reading We are still waiting for a little bit of rain…
Finally after years of attempting to grow melons – I have succeeded. Admittedly they are on the small side – the very small side and if you compare it to a shop bought one they look like ping pong balls beside bowling balls. But I grew them so they are perfect! And this time, when sliced in half they actually looked like what they should, … Continue reading I think that is what you call success…
There are two schools of thought when determining the official change of the seasons. Some folks believe it should be on the equinox which by my reckoning means we still have 21 more days of balmy summer days. But the thing is… I am so impatient in the spring that I can’t make myself wait for the equinox for the spring to start – I … Continue reading You can’t have it both ways.
After two days of heavy rain and unforgiving wind, the weather has settled back down to what it was before as though the rain aberration didn’t even happen at all. It’s gone all hot and muggy which is making any extended activity under the midday sun a bit of a chore. I feel really lazy, but I think it’s the heat that is zapping my … Continue reading What rain? I must have imagined it.
It’s hot. I mean really hot. We are officially in a drought. The boffins have number crunched and apparently January normally gets about 60mm of rain, I guess that’s why looking back over past summers all I remember is dashed expectations of a “proper summer.” Well this year we are having that magic kind of summer – long and hot! But they say that we … Continue reading My garden doesn’t need me… sob sob sob
