The official summer sun, optimism and thunder thread 2021

[joshleb]

South London and it's been drizzling all day today.

Was hoping to mow the lawn this evening after no mow May, but it's far too wet. Got guests coming for a bbq tomorrow too!

[Puggit]

s6boy said:

Just catching up so how's the hound Puggit?

Thanks for asking - really on the up. We weren't happy with his condition yesterday so took him back to the vet. Now on antibiotics, metacam and they added cocodamol yesterday. Since then he's livened up a bit - tail is wagging again.

His injuries were so severe that the original vet thought he'd been hit by a car. I think he rolled his entire weight on to a sticking out root with some real force during the scuffle. He's a staffy/lab cross, so imagine a small lab built like a staffy. There's a lot of weight in him!

[ElectricSoup]

joshleb said:

South London and it's been drizzling all day today.

Was hoping to mow the lawn this evening after no mow May, but it's far too wet. Got guests coming for a bbq tomorrow too!

Bang up some fairy lights, put a floaty dress on, hand out some sepia tinted glasses and you can pretend you're partying in a summer meadow in a bank commerical.

[Puggit]

The mutt...

[How u doing]

Puggit said:

The mutt...

Bullied by squirrels.

(pleased he's OK thought .)

[Bill]

Lovely down here (sorry...) although the wind is a little cold, I even went in the sea. However it was 30 seconds or so before I could actually articulate the word "cold" after jumping in.

[NuvolAscaRina]

joshleb said:

South London and it's been drizzling all day today.

The woman I saw with a hosepipe pointed at her garden at about 8.30am must feel a little foolish now .

[RC1807]

RC1807 said:

I can confirm that, having enjoyed lunch on a terrace with 27C and bright sunshine earlier, it's blowing a bloody hoolie now and we've an enormous thunderstorm. Forked lightning all over the vicinity.

I've not seen rain and wind like this for, ooh.....weeks!



Bzzzzzz

Apparently more than 400 lightning strikes, according to RTL.
Tram and train services stopped working.
Loads of local floods.
Landslides too!

[colin_p]

RC1807 said:

RC1807 said:

I can confirm that, having enjoyed lunch on a terrace with 27C and bright sunshine earlier, it's blowing a bloody hoolie now and we've an enormous thunderstorm. Forked lightning all over the vicinity.

I've not seen rain and wind like this for, ooh.....weeks!



Bzzzzzz

Apparently more than 400 lightning strikes, according to RTL.
Tram and train services stopped working.
Loads of local floods.
Landslides too!

Where art thou?

[MentalSarcasm]

Puggit said:

Plenty of indications that we'll be in the 30s by mid-June.

[ApOrbital]

Bang on in the peak district loving the weather and log cabin.

[Puggit]

ApOrbital said:

Bang on in the peak district loving the weather and log cabin.

Have booked a week in the PD for end of July

[Puggit]

Lovely day for it!

[Bill]

We're having a delayed Christmas... Turkey legs with chestnut stuffing on the BBQ.

[JakeT]

Puggit said:

Lovely day for it!

Few things beat a pint of Good old Boy

[Puggit]

JakeT said:

Few things beat a pint of Good old Boy

I do love that pint. Sadly this was Atlantic from Sharps in Cornwall

I'll certainly enjoy some GOB at Burghfest this September - assuming we're not locked down by the hextuple variant from Rockall

[jimmyjimjim]

Currently 32c in Colorado. Lovely in the shade, bit rough in the sun.

Bloody awful painting in a closet, even with AC.

[spikeyhead]

It's a grey start in Leicester, possible thunderstorms this afternoon.

[s6boy]

Puggit said:

The mutt...

Good to read he's on the mend. Looks bright eyed and alert there

[Puggit]

Amazing what you can get done when it's cloudy and cooler