Preparedness for when

pollyanna_26

Ivyleaf Would you like to swap weather ? I have been gardening for a few hours and am seeking some indoor sanctuary at the moment .
20 degrees with barely a breeze . Very humid indoors too , praying for a storm as we've had a few days on the run of this . Not good if you have fair skin and function best with medium temperatures .
polly

GreyQueen

:eek: I feel a perturbation in The Force - the decent weather seems to be in West and the rubbish weather in the Sarf and Sarf East. The natural order of things has been overturned.

We've had floods, storms, lightning, thunder, rains of rain and rains of frogs.

OK, the frogs were a fib. Blinking perishing, more like March than the last day of May. Brrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

nuatha

ivyleaf wrote: »

That does sound gorgeous!

I'll let you know, there's a batch churning at the moment, though the cherries are last years, preserved in brandy and rough chopped (which I'm hoping means they won't set like bullets, don't ask about my first raspberry ice-cream )

I'm so cold here that I've had to resort to a chunky-knit jumper and a thermal vest :eek: Ridiculous.

I've been working in the garden most of the afternoon, I'm thinking of hugging the ice cream just to thaw out
Its currently 7C in the garden and the windchill has it about 2C effective.

I'm not jealous Pollyanna I'm too cold to do emotions

pollyanna_26

GQ Think of we poor pale and normally waterproof wearing peeps oop norf . We don't know what to do when a run of days occurs like this . There is a large yellow thing above us and who knew the sky was blue rather than grey or black . I would lie down and have a fit of the vapours ala Ms Barrett Browning but it's too bloomin hot !
BTW You forgot the cats - I am not needing a dog but live in hope of a rather nice tabby descending from the skies every now and then .
polly

GreyQueen

I'm wearing fleece! And I've just put the heating on! Who the hell is to be blamed for this?! I'm actually shivering and contemplating having an FB pie from the stash. This ain't no salad wevver.

mardatha

North Berwick was gorgeous! Breeze off the sea but it was warm enough to walk along the front in a tshirt. Unheard of! I had fish & chips, ice cream, a wee cake, and brought home tablet and rock. LOL the world can end tonight (after I've et the rock)

Cappella

It's been glorious here in usually-not-sunny-at-all-Manchester. Four days of sunshine and blue skies. No pies needed here, salad again for tea. Torrential rain forecast from tomorrow but it's been the best summer for years. . Four whole days of sunshine - one for the record books :rotfl:

As regards the referendum. I'm still dithering, EU funding supports farming in the UK though, so this might be a reason to stay in? My heart says leave, but my head wants a hell of a lot more information before polling day. This has always been a multi-ethnic area with a very diverse population, but the demographic has changed dramatically over the past 15 years, and not for the better. However none of the migrants I've personally had issues with (our new neighbours in the 'buy to let' houses on the avenue are a b****y nightmare) are from anywhere in Europe so I'm not letting the migrant issue cloud my judgment too much - yet.
I believe that both the NHS and education in this country are grossly underfunded though; and that if funding was at a sensible level a lot of pressure on both systems would ease so that the influx of migrants from the EEC could be absorbed without the damage currently being experienced.
Anyway, for what it's worth that's what I believe. I will most certainly vote on the day though. That's a certainty. I'll probably vote to stay in, but that's still under debate.

armyknife

I think I'll vote stay, unless some disenfranchised younger people persuade me they favour a different vote.

'Afterall we', us oldens here, are principally voting more on someone else's futures than our own.

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Cappella wrote: »

EU funding supports farming in the UK though, so this might be a reason to stay in?

But the funding comes from us to start with.

All they're doing, is giving us some of our own money back.

NewShadow

Cappella wrote: »

As regards the referendum. I'm still dithering, EU funding supports farming in the UK though, so this might be a reason to stay in?

Prime minister David Cameron has confirmed his government would continue to offer financial support to farmers if the UK votes to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/cameron-commits-to-support-farmers-if-uk-leaves-eu.htm

Leaving the European Union would pay an £18bn a year “Brexit dividend” which would allow the UK to spend £2bn on farming and the environment, farming minister, George Eustice, has said...

Farmers have voiced concerns that Brexit would prevent them having access to the single market and the Treasury would not match the £2.4bn of support they get through Europe, which accounts for an average 53% of farm incomes.

But Eustice has told farmers at the conference the UK would do “far better” outside the EU, able to design and implement its own policies to support food and farming.

“I have taken a view, having wrestled with all sorts of EU regulation over the last two and a half years, that we would do far better as a country if we ended the supremacy of Europe and shaped new fresh thinking policies that really deliver for our agriculture.

“The truth of the matter is if we left the EU there would be an £18bn a year Brexit dividend, so could we find the money to spend £2bn a year on farming and the environment? Of course we could,” he said. “Would we? Without a shadow of a doubt.”

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/uk-environment-ministers-at-odds-over-brexit-impact-on-farming

Obviously, there are arguments for both sides - I've tried to include a range of links discussing the issue, but I suggest talking to your local farmers and see how it affects your area.

If the guarantee for funding is there, I think many farmers would relish ditching CAP and direct payments.

The delays, bureaucracy, perverse incentives, and sheer % of the money that goes to France... there are very few farmers I've dealt with (when I was in rural affairs) that are happy with the current situation.

Farmers weigh options in high-stakes Brexit vote

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6468fda8-1e95-11e6-8fa5-44094f6d9c46.html#axzz4AGUsTysj

How Brexit would affect British farmers?
Yes, they depend on EU subsidies. But the results of leaving the CAP could be surprising

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/how-brexit-would-affect-british-farmers/