Rain rain rain

Here last week ended beautifully with sunny mild weather, so I put our electric blankets away, and of course, it turned cold again. Still sunny, but the gale force wind goes through you like a knife. Fine for drying washing in though.

Dear Clerk of the Weather, while I am grateful for every day where it doesn't rain, could we please have less wind, or at least a warmer one?

Cats had started to go out again, but how they are indoor animals again.

We have dd1 and crew, including a small (once white but
now damp and manky dog), staying this week. The dog’s so small that he only has to step outside and he’s muddy up to his armpits! Talk of muddy springers made me smile, when we had ours years ago she just loved these conditions!
Like everyone else I’m just fed up with rain and wonder how anything will evergrow in the bog that was my garden or more importantly in the fields around here.

You have my sympathy.We were house training our two springers-litter mates -in similar conditions 4 years ago.A couple of days after we brought them home the heavens opened and it rained on and off for weeks.Our garden became an absolute quagmire,and the little girl hated it so much she took to standing on the mesh over the fishpond to do a wee !For months afterwards she was the only spaniel I've ever known that would skirt round a puddle and hated mud !Now she loves to swim,and I've just finished yet another filthy walk and had to wash her and her brother down thoroughly. Again.I have abiding memories of standing out late at night in my nightwear with DHS huge jacket and wellies on with a torch supervising the last run out of what seemed hundreds a day !

It nearly stopped yesterday although it was very muddy underfoot. And today?
Back to rain.

Never mind, I think we are due for next week when the children go back to school as kathsue said.

I hope the puppy remembers where she is supposed to go once it stops raining.

I've got a few things to ask him up there aswell, waterneadow, so I'll add your prayer to mine. It's been beautiful today in the NE , unbelievably, so it'll probs be a swarm of locusts tomorrow.

Nothing I can add except - it's raining in Mid Wales

We have a dry, sunny day in Northumberland. I went to visit DD and didn't need a coat or umbrella! We do get plenty of rain though. DH finally managed some gardening this morning. More rain forecast though. ?
youtu.be/mxmmvHsDeuI Here's someone enjoying the rain.

My lawn is so wet the frogs have laid their spawn on it!

If you need any more convincing, could you please hold off the rain for long enough so that my garden dries out a bit? I'm sick of plants rotting in the ground, the bird-food turning to a solid lump before the starving little things get their beaks on it, mud being brought into the house and washing drying everywhere but on the line. On yes, don't forget watermeadows puppy, who is doing her best in trying circumstances. Thank you.

Sorry, we've just bought a new garden table and chairs so that's b*****ed the weather for weeks to come.

Hopefully we'll get some sunshine next week when the children go back to school. Good luck with your puppy

PS. Sorry can’t help about this blasted weather !

Get some Puppy Pads, she will use those, you then fold them up and put into the bin.