It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

icelandic_queen

We don't pay water rates here in Northern Ireland (yet)!! Bloomin' cheek if they did, it hasn't stopped raining and the forecast is for more!!!!. It's a nusiance more than anything cos our kids get off from the end of June until the beginning of September. Anyway have got the raincoats and wellies out for any rainy days out. We have a store here called Dunnes and they have a whole section of trendy wellies on display now!!

Nitha

I'm 7 months pregnant in this weather and irritable as ever. I get about 5 hours sleep and cleaning the house feels like running a marathon. Husband is happy sat on his rear playing PS3 though :roll:

catznine

It's a bit cooler today, but we really need some rain now though as the garden has suffered, water butts are now empty and need filling. Have got a handful of very small courgettes and the strawberries are petering out now after a wonderful start.

mardatha

Dont think we pay for water, but there is sewage charge in the council tax. Today is drier with bits of blue sky but very windy and not warm or nice. I'm refusing to read any more posts on how HOT IT IS DOWN SOUTH !!

Skint_Lynne

It's the same old story - we all want what the other person has. I would love some of the nice hot weather that's going down south, but the folk down south want some of my rain - why can't we just swap.:p

larmy16

Yeah another lovely *rolls eyes* scorcher of a day Daan Saarf!:mad:


The hot weather really gets me down. Infact I get SAD in the summer months.

At least if it's cold you can wrap up.

I made a lovely potato and pea curry last night. Used up some potatos that were sprouting but fine inside. It was very nice indeed.

Have a good day y'all.

Larumbelle

Mardatha, your tatties will be loving the rain. The strawbs maybe not so much, but they'll survive I'm sure The weather is doing strange things to my veggies, too. My sweetcorn are only waist high but they are already 'flowering' (though they don't produce actual flowers), but then each plant is producing 4 or 5 cobs each! And my brassicas have gone bananas, but my peas are dying off early, and my beans are all flower and no leaf. Strangest year I've ever known for veggies. If the commercial growers are having the same issues I'd expect prices to rise. Isn't it odd that just a few hundred miles separates such extremes of weather?

I read yesterday that some areas have had so little they qualify as semi-arid, so are deserts in terms of rainfall. :eek: I do try to conserve water all year round, though, because it takes so much energy and chemicals to produce drinking water, it is so wasteful to chuck it at the garden or over a car. But we're down to the dregs in the butts. I save as much 'grey water' as I can but it's tricky in a bungalow as there's not enough gravity for a diverter. I'm on the look out for a solar-powered pump (like caravanners use?) as I think that might be a good step.

Went to a car boot this morning, got a mincer at last :j for a bargain £3. I have been looking out for one for ages but really didn't want to resort to new. Also found some GHDs for £5, I can understand now why I found it so hard to use straighteners before - it's because my £3.99 from Wilkos ones were too chunky and didn't get hot enough! I'm not a particularly vain person, in fact I'm from the 'take me as you find me or don't take me at all' school of thought :rotfl: but it's nice to know that I can scrub up if required

lilac_lady

Shopped at local Co-op yesterday. Baking potatoes @8 for £1, punnet of plums @ 38p, bunch of spring onions @ 23p, oranges @ 50p for 5, bag of 7 apples @ £1. All reduced but looking healthy.

The Co-op ordinary prices are not competative but their reductions are really worthwhile.

carriebradshaw

ceridwen wrote: »

More to the point Mardatha chuck - have you been thinking about rainwater harvesting as well?

....though I do have the feeling that water isnt directly chargeable in Scotland ..you lucky people :think:

not true of the Highlands hon,just looked at our bill & this year annual water charge is £142.73 & waste water charge is £163.38 I wouldn't mind so much but water here is very often brown with bits in evn more so when it rains

mardatha

I need to look at my council tax bill and see what ours is..
SC I'm looking on freecycle for a mincer to make sausages with...