Summer heatwave (!) & BBQ weather chat 2013

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Captain Jack

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My dish has survived the onslaught! Was sunny but not any more...
 

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It's lovely and sunny and warm and nice and things round here, shame I have to sleep through the warmest part of the day... :(
 

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A gorgeous day here. Ive spent the whole day tinkering with the dishes, and as a bonus found one place in the garden where I can get 30W. Which I havent seen for many years due to tree growth.

Cant have a permanent dish here as its in front of one of OH's greenhouses - (as she was out today she couldnt complain if a dish was in the way ;) )
 

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Warm and sunny in the Mids, looks like another nice day tomorrow.


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Been out for a lovely walk through local Bluebell woods - fantastic display this year, even though most are Spanish invaders, not native English variety.

Got a slightly sun-burnt fizzog now!
 

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A glorious day here, unfortunately my tasks are cleaning and painting a couple of bedroom ceilings.

Tomorrow I will be mainly out in the garden working on a trusty Honda motorbike to make ready for sale.
 

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Weeding today but how glorious is this sun although i'm only in it to raise my low vitamin D level. :cool:
 

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Just been out opp t'Moors and it has got quite muggy in the last hour or so p- I wonder if we are due a thunderstorm?
 

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35% humidity here,we certainly arent getting anything like that here in the near future although i havent seen the forecast.
 

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289 deg K here already and a lovely day in prospect for those of us to the East of the Pennines, so we are going to do one of our favourite Bluebell Walks around Scugdale (North end of t'Moors) accompanied by several rounds of Cheese (various) Sandwiches (various).
 

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Off you go then Grommit! Dont forget the Wensleydale.!!
 

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Dull overcast & drizzly here. Just as well it was a normal work day here really. (Thanks to the lunatic plethora of local town holidays in the Borders our holiday Monday is next Monday.....!)
 

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The wispy cirrus clouds have arrived, looks like this could be the end of the sun for now, the wind is very strong, rising tonight if this afternoons barbecue takes hold..... :-SBD
 

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Was bucketing it down this morning, didnt stop until the back of two this afternoon, been off since but now a massive grey cloud bank rolling in to start again no doubt!!
 

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Just hoping for a dry hour tomorrow so we can polish off the Kiwis (No, PDP, that's not a euphemism!).
 

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Tivù said:
Just hoping for a dry hour tomorrow so we can polish off the Kiwis (No, PDP, that's not a euphemism!).
kiwi-polish.jpg

......and of course it's all black to boot...
 

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Oh thats terrible sonnetpete!!!!
 

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It's not Cricket, that's for sure.
 

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Another glorious day here, and while I was outside, I cleared part of one shed only and put some surplus bike bits on eBay as the listings I use are free until midnight. Tomorrow onwards is definitely indoor stuff
 

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Arrived in France yesterday morning, took the dog for a long walk and managed to get sunburned, so thought I'd get the mini tractor out this morning and cut the grass, bro in law isn't well so it's overdue. I was however overoptimistic, it's bloody raining again.


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