SAD syndrome?

No need for correction Bags, I' sure the water resources managers are walking around grinning. After an extremely dry 18 months it was really needed.

If the sun is shining where you are this morning - make the most of it. This looks like the brightest day in the current batch of days.

Sun not shining at the mo (well, it is behind the rain clouds!) even though the Met Office says it is . Still, yesterday was lovely – dry, sunny but not too warm, perfect for archery. Had brekkie. Off to do some quilting, and I'll take a brolly this afternoon.

WE had a downpour this morning,but it is clearing rapidly, so I am off for a long walk after The Archer's Omnibus!

Will we all get ricketts,osteoporosis and SAD then this year?

Yesterday I set out with raincoat to go and support someone who had set up a 'summer' fair in aid of our local hospice and by the time I got there it was lovely and sunny! Off to the cricket in Cheltenham later today and it is forecast to be 18 degrees and dry. For that we are so grateful but in a normal year would be complaining it is cold!

We have a spring in our garden which dried up at the end of last year but now it is flowing freely again.

Now what else can I be positive about weatherwise? Nope, can't think of anything .

Could give you a long list of negatives but am restraining myself.

A bright start in Coventry this morning .. but I've a feeling the solar god is sniggering impishly behind his corona!

A meteorologist on 'Breakfast' this morning said he though the jet stream which had caused the low pressure over Britain recently appears to be moving North (sorry Bags and Soop, etc.) so the weather should get better.
I have a big personal interest, as my grandson is getting married in Kent on 11th August, and I am staying with my sister in Manchester for the previous week and hope to be able to take her on some days out to The Lakes, etc.

A bright, fresh and sunny morning here after all the rain yesterday.
Just the thing to start off the day.

Woke up this morning to a strange light outside. Opened the curtains carefully (you never know) and it was the sun!!!!!!Yipee. Hub off sailing on the Broads today with No.1 grandson, they have been waiting ages for this expidition and today seems to be the day. Grandsons 2 and 3 are camping with the cubs in North Norfolk and should have had good weather. Actually, yesterday was fine and dry, managed to get lawns mowed and madly overgrown shrubs trimmed. In a rather odd way I have almost enjoyed this unpredictable weather!! You never know what you are going to get, bit of a lucky bag really....anyone else agree? I have managed to get lots of indoor jobs done, decorating the dining room, clearing out cupboards and sending the surplus to the charity shop and lots of reading!!! Here in Norfolk, well our bit anyway, we have not been flooded, and we are the driest part of the country. Now putting washing on the line and time to read the papers.

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Lovely sunshine! Yippee!

Great weather for weeding! Damp soil makes it easier to get those persistent little devils dislodged.
SAD is thought to relate to a lack of full spectrum light in winter months.
I suppose thick cloud cover could have the same effect but I will have to consult DH (resident physics expert) to check
I don't know if anyone has ever researched relationship between SAD and Vitamin D.
But we don't make it in the winter in UK because the angle of the sun too low, however sunny and however long we indulged in nude sunbathing on a warm february day (we wish)
But as we get older skin is more sluggish at making vitamin d - so get out there and expose as much of your flesh as you can at this time of year.
I need to take some exercise now. If i wait until after lunch it never happens.

Shh! It's dry here. Perhaps some sun later? Tomorrow I've got to go to Chippenham again so early start and rain forecast!
I'm starting to wonder who I've upset on the allocations office in Cardiff as they know I don't like early mornings!

I am now convinced that rain is the nectar of life to weeds !!! the darn things have sprung up everywhere in the last two days,and so I am going to get out there today and do my best to pull them out again.The sun is out to-day but there is still a chill in the air nice views across The Mersey to Liverpool and the prom is full of people either fishing or walking down to the dunes,lets hope it keeps nice and lets have some .

Poo, now I'm stopping being positive. They've just abandoned the cricket match we were going to and it looks like it will rain on my washing too. Think I'll just go and curl up on the sofa with my Sunday paper.

The front garden is now looking nice and tidy so while the is out I am going to knock on my neighbours and ask her if she fancies sharing a bottle of whilst we sit and enjoy the weather,if anyone fancies a or two or three you are all most welcome.

Jess; Adcal which they give to older people has vitamin D in it, the reaon being that loss of calcium in the bones is partly due to the fact that older people tend to have less exposure to daylight.

This old person doesn't if there's any around [grumpy] emoticon!

I'll join you glamma.Sunny and white fluffy clouds here.Would starting the BBQ be pushing my luck?

grannylin good idea I will pop down to Morrisons before they close at 4pm and see what I can rustle up.

Popped in Tesco on the way back from Pilates and everyone was dressed as though they live in the Carribean! You have to admire the optimism of the British!

Bless them!
adcal presumably calcium, vitamin D and vitamin A. Good idea to supplement with these if someone is housebound-ish. Unless they are stuffing down the salmon, mackerel and sardines every week.
Animal fats are the only dietary source, with oily fish topping the charts.

What a good job salmon is so tasty and sardines on toast is so cheap - I have each of them once a week!

Love sardines and smoked salmon

Any sort of salmon, sardines, brisling, tuna, smoked haddock...

jess I could live on salmon and sardines I love them,if I open a tin of sardines for barney my little jack russell you can gaurentee that I will eat half before it get to his dish.