The weather forecast!

[Paddy's mum]

A few moments ago, the weather forecast from Patrick Lunt, on Radio 2.

"Rain and Heavy Winds"

My weather vane is indicating due West.

What are you west country ishers eating - too many brussels sprouts?!!!!

Please spare a thought for us up-country of you. Thank the Lord we are close to the Wash - your exhalations only fuel the wind farms nearby!!!!!

At least it can construed as alternative energy.

[Martin]

'tis be blowing a bit down here in Sussex too

[Paddy's mum]

Crikey Martin - what are those W.C. ishers eating, that their exhaltations(!) can affect the weather all along the Channel and the East coast?!

We've got to do something soon or the flood defences will be breached and tidal levels higher than ever .................... just think about the insurance premiums!

It's probably our region's fault, because the fenlands raise thousands of acres of brassicas - it's not called 'the land of the great white cabbage' for nothing.

Weather type wind (ho hum) is a constant problem - I put in a 100 metre young hedge but also had to place a similar length of synthetic windbreak, and I still must cross my fingers and hope for a good result.

Now you know why we holiday away from here at the height of the cutting and eating season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shirley]

Not a breath of wind here in Aberdeenshire but it's VERY cold... a hard frost on last night's wet roads will make driving difficult I guess. Luckily for me J is not at nursery until the afternoon and so I (hopefully) won't need to scrape the car.

[Millymollymandy]

Warm (ish), wet and windy here in Brittany too!

[the.fee.fairy]

horribly cold and a bit windy, and a bit wet here...

Still, the garden likes the rain! And, hopefully the cherry pips will grow later on now they've been cold.

[dibnah]

It's bin collection day today and two bins have just blown down the street!!

[Chickpea]

I've got one of those platic mini greenhouse thingies that got blown to bits, literally, last night. And the climbing rose over the door which is held to the brick wall with lots of pins got yanked right out and is now hanging right across the front door. I knew I should have pruned that back.

[Wombat]

Bloody hot here - 38C today!

[Millymollymandy]

It's been so mild so far this winter (apart from one week of cold weather at Xmas) that everything thinks it is spring. The birds are singing and my Mimosa is flowering 2 months too early! I've got anemones in bud and in flower and there's buds on my Japonica. Just wish this bloody wind would stop!

[red]

dang stormy here AGAIN - tired of the storms - this time it took out a rickety field shelter made out of old railway sleepers and corregated iron sheets - now its a pile of railwaysleepers and c.iron sheets - crushing two of my dalek compost bins

Haven't been down to the small paddock yet to see if any more trees down....

[Masco&Bongo]

Bloody awful here, but that would be because we're on a costal flood plain, about 800 yards from the beach/sea front

About 10 panes of glass in the greenhouse gone, cover off the lawn tractor, so it was all rained on, peach tree blown over and snapped, and lawn and orchard flooded