woolybanana Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Batten down the hatches chaps if you are in the northern part of France. Blowing a hoolie and across the top of my little valley it sounds like a fleet of Concordes going over very low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Crikey it was blowy here in Morbihan .. I was woken before 4am and couldn't get back to sleep at all 'cos of the racket going on outside.Now feeling definitely washed out.The sun is shining though it is still gusty .. just with nowhere near the force of last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Talking to some builder chaps just now who say that there is more storm to come this pm. Oh well, just have to abandon the gardening. Pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Keep safe:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Thank you, Norman. I knew you cared.You fit n well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Storms over, no damage. Just blooody wet.Now shal I sort seeds tomorrow or..... wait fo it..... horror of horrors........ clean the house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 Big bad wind last night, still blowing. House will never have been cleaner but garden not even approachable, damn it.Standing in the greenhouse, it is like a wind tunnel for an F16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Yes, we had a hell of a storm yesterday evening, wind growling like a wild and furious animal, rain getting under the glass into the veranda (never known that before) and the lightning like pyrotechnics.OH was out for table tennis and, for the first time ever, I actually began to get a bit anxious for his safety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Blo*dy storms back today but this time blowing straight up my valley. Phew, going some too. Getting fed up with being bowled over when I go into the garden. Fortunately the mini greenhouse is against a wall otherwise I would be fetching bits of it back from miles away. Standing in there when the wind blows is a bit like standing in an old print room when the presses were running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I've just looked up where you live, Wooly. Not far from the Channel. And well placed for UK and Belgium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I've got one of those greenhouses with the 4mm plastic panes. The week after I put it up we had that storm with 100km/hr winds, been chasing the panels around the garden off and on (literally) ever since! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Yes, Pat, chosen for that reason. I need easy access to UK, to my kids in Belgium and I like the Channel coast. Plus the folks here are proper chatty which suits me fine, unlike the Vendée where they are a closed mouth lot.So, a little valley, tiny village about an hour from the Tunnel and about three hours from the kids.Plus a decent sized garden with good soil for me to work on. Well, to try to work on.Spider, mine is the same type but firmly against a wall which definitely helps. Check out the internet for tips in securing a greenhouse, such as leaving doors and windows open in windy weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Poor old Wooly what with people sending you info on bras and everything else! Well, if you need to search out bras for your man boobs, I am afraid that the advertisers will latch on to that.But you are lucky really. Think of the UK's top lawyer, Geoffrey Cox.....HE was rabiting on about his cod piece in parliament. Imagine the adverts they are sending him for scrotum bags[:D]I don't know what on earth M Barnier will make of all that. Why, he might well be asking himself, do Brexiteers want a special room (pièce) for keeping fish in? And he thought they'd agreed about fisheries policy!Storms are now no longer what they were. Rainy and dreary but not life- or property-threatening, at least not at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 We’re back in Berkshire and are having a lot of nasty periods of hailstones, very painful on tge face when we popped round to our little local M&S Food branch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Bad luck, Gg, most disagreeable.I am ducking down behind the hedges to plant out stuff from the winter. Bright sunshine is warm out of the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Drove up to Calais via Arras this morning in my trusty old LDV van. The vague steering, high centre of gravity and farm cart "suspension" made for an interesting trip - in strong wind, it's like a snake on roller skates. Sorry if you were on the road and got side-swiped by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 And now I've got thunder and torrential rain in Cheltenham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Strange weather, we were sitting out sunning ourselves a couple of weeks ago here in the Charente now it's bl**dy awful.I'll try the open door/windows trick next time we have a gale WB and if bits go missing you can return them down here for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Heavy, thudding hailstones and thunder and lightning here in Berkshire - the first peal of thunder really made me jump. It must have been extremely loud to be heard over the hailstones banging on the windows at both ends of our living room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Gardengirl - our eldest daughter lives in Berkshire, she usually rings on Sunday but no word today. I'll have to ring her.That kind of storm was quite common in the Gers, but usually in summer. On Tyneside it has been blustery, but that's normal here.ps rang L. - she said she'd been out on her bike this morning! [:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I hope that she managed her ride between hailstorms! I don’t remember the last time we had so many on and off throughout the day. But inbetween we had some pleasant sunshine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Wooly - more wind to come:https://www.xcweather.co.uk/FR/observations?Loc=FR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Oh shishkebab.Thanks Patf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Storms and rain again, I am gettng thoroughly fed up. Cant plant out some stuff as the wind would probably wipe it out.I do hope this does not presage another drought though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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