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Well, it's Bank Holiday Monday and the weather is on form! Cold, windy and wet!! Doing a bit of virtual gardening on the Vine. Lots of bits blown off the apple tree, and the oriental poppy's collapsed (was going to tie it up yesterday, but it was raining then as well. Should have made the effort)

Sunny here (grits teeth - want rain!!!) but fiercely windy. Managed to tie up some beans and the sweet peas. Could do with a gentle warm rain. Don't want much do I?

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vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 2nd 2008

from Times Online: "Ever since 1967, when Harold Wilson’s Government replaced the moveable Whitsun holiday with a fixed one in late spring, this has been a thoroughly nerve-racking holiday, with 27 of the 40 so far having been spoilt by heavy rain."

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and to think I planned a barbie for this Bank Hols following the early May Bank Hols being so warm

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Suzie

What a lovely day!!!Just got back from Wrest Park Garden show,got absolutely soaked and frozen.A lot of the exhibitors had packed up and gone home,so there wasn't half as much as there usually is.Oh well,I did buy an interesting plant I'd not seen before,Berkheya Purpurea-Silver Spikes.Anyone know it? It's a spikey silvery leafed monster-looks really different.Also got Cat nip plant for my new cat-he should like that when it stops raining.

Sorry to hear about your rainy bank holiday. It was sunny here all day but very windy. We have our bank holiday to look forward to next Monday. Watch this space for a weather update on another bank holiday.

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

windy & sunny here too, but we are DESPERATE for rain, the water feed to the lottie site is broken and all the barrels are empty now so if we dont get some soon and noone knows how long the council will be getting it fixed

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My niece cancelled a B B Q on sunday cos it was going to be awful weather turned out really nice in the afternoon. Yesterday was rain wind cold in laws had turned the heating back on.
today cold no rain at the mo bet your bottom dollar as soon as I put the washing out it will rain.

Rain here since last night. Guess all the barrells are overflowing by now. Feast, famine oe what!

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

We have had really strong winds here over the weekend, two leaves on my hosta,s have been riped, some of my fucshia,s have snapped, most of my plants have got bashed about,had just got the garden all weeded ready to plant my summer plants, now its covered in leaves that have fallen from the tree,s ( i could scream )And according to the weather forecast we are now in for a few days of heavy rain.

Think i will take up knitting lol

bout time we had some rain up here....lol...

prob never stop for the rest of the summer