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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 22, 2012
Cover of Summer (Seasons Around You)
The weather forecast for this week looks good, if you like sunshine and warmth. Although a couple of weeks away some are predicting a hot June ahead. I’ll reserve judgement on that one. Over the last month or so the weather in the UK has not been all that good with only the occasional day of warm sunshine so it comes as a welcome change to have a positive forecast. Worldwide weather patterns have changed since I was born. I can remember very different seasons when I was young compared to what we get now and this is due to the changing global weather patterns. We seem to be experiencing on average, cooler summers and less colder winters. The seasons themselves seem less defined too and we experience sudden warm spells in the cooler months or long periods of cool weather when we expect it to be warm. More recently much of the UK was suffering drought conditions, practically unheard of in Spring but not quite so much in Summer although even then never usually lasting more than a few weeks. This year the UK is hosting the Olympic Games as we all know and it would be nice for the weather to be fine for all the outdoor meetings but we cannot rely on that. In many countries the weather is predictable but here in the UK it most certainly is not. The best we can hope for and predict with any accuracy is only a week or so in advance and even then it can change unexpectedly. Flaming June? We’ll see!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 15, 2012
It was such a lovely day yesterday I went for a walk. I had telephoned my chemist to see if my prescription was ready for collection and it was. I telephone them whenever I need to apply for my prescription to be re-submitted to my doctor’s surgery and they do it for me. They would also deliver my medications to my house but in that case I would need to remain at home. They won’t simply post them through the letterbox as they need to be sure they go to the right person. I get twelve weeks supply each time. The medication I am referring to are my hormone tablets, something I have to take for the rest of my life. So off I went on my walk collecting my prescription on the way. It has been quite some time since I went out simply for a walk, I suppose I have been too busy. The forecast had been blustery winds and some heavy rain showers but I think the rain must have already passed because it was sunny with just a few clouds. The wind was there though! If it is windy I tie my hair back in a pony-tail else it gets all over the place. My workload has dropped off dramatically this past week although I did receive two requests to do a small job, however those ‘small’ jobs, I discovered after talking to the callers, weren’t small in the least so I turned them both down. I have reached that point in my working life whereby I set myself a limit on what I will do and I can choose which work I will take on board. Well after all I am over 66 years of age! I need to do more walking and perhaps less work, especially on nice days such as this. It is such a lovely day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 14, 2012
Aesculus hippocastanum English: Leaves and trunk of Horse chestnut. Estrela Garden, Lisbon Português: Folhas e tronco de um Castanheiro-da-Índia. Jardim da Estrela, Lisboa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Now don’t get me wrong about this for although I am not too particular about the weather it is still nevertheless nice to have sunshine on a regular basis. In one of my front rooms, which faces SSW, I follow the sun throughout the seasons as and when it shines through the window. During the winter months when it happens to be sunny, the sun shines directly upon the opposite wall unless it has remained behind the house opposite around the winter solstice when it doesn’t rise high enough. As the seasons progress the wall gets less direct sunshine and the floor more until at the height of summer the sunshine barely lights up the floor beneath the window. By then of course the sun is very high in the sky. We have had a very mixed bag of weather over the last month and although we have had lots of sun it hasn’t, apart from that one unusual week when it was hot and sunny most of the time, been all that warm. These last few days has seen a change to more regular warmth and sunshine normally associated with this time of year. Spring is now firmly established. As I have been driving around the countryside one of the things that strike me is the amount of new greenery in the trees and hedgerows, especially the Hawthorne which is now densely covered in leaves. There are still many trees without their new leaves of course as they burst into life next month. From my front room window I can see a couple of huge Horse Chestnut trees in full leaf and of course some Holly trees. I like to see some greenery during the colder months and the holly trees fill that spot. We have a few evergreen plants in our front garden so it is never too bleak looking. It is that season whereby I am never sure whether to wear a coat or not but I always have one with me anyway and a brolly too if there is the likelihood of rain. Well it is England!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 4, 2012
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We had some unusually warm weather for well over a week but this week we are back to the average temperatures for this time of year, hovering around 8 to 12 degC, noticeably colder! We haven’t had rain for more than two weeks I think but we should have some soon. The problem with the British climate is, well, the British climate! It can be so unpredictable at times. As I write this on Monday afternoon after returning home from a mornings work and after a few days of not feeling so well, I must still have an infection for my lower lip has developed a swelling on one side. Perhaps the beginning of a cold sore! I am reminded of how funny I appeared recently after my whole mouth swelled up because of an allergic reaction to something I never did discover. This time it isn’t quite so bad though but still a proverbial pain! Maybe it is the weather, who knows? I remember last year we had some lovely weather early in the year and when we should have had better weather during the summer it didn’t really happen. That’s not to say the summer was bad, it wasn’t, it just didn’t last too long. Whenever we get fine weather early in the year people often quip that is all the summer we are likely to get! Weather patterns seem to have changed quite dramatically during my lifetime. Whether that is accurate I am not sure, I guess I could research the facts if I really wanted to. Personally speaking I am not all that fond of hot stifling weather preferring as I do for it to be a little cooler but I do like to have what I consider to be the right temperature and climate for the time of year, warm in the summer and cold in the winter. The way things are going these days we get snow in April and very little in December, not that here in Southport we ever get much snow compared to elsewhere. Even this week we are forecast to receive snow albeit in Scotland and the higher ground in places around England. Not much chance here on the coast but hey, this is Britain, anything could happen! In a way though, for the time being, I’m glad we haven’t had too much rain, the grass won’t need cutting again for a while. There will be plenty of time during the real summer for doing that I’m sure. That’s assuming we get one.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 29, 2012
Actual jet stream configuration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Currently here in the United Kingdom we are experiencing some very fine but unseasonal weather. Temperatures are hovering around twice what they would normally be at this time of year. A temperature of around 11 deg C would be normal but in some places we have had 23 deg! Where I live it has been a more modest 20 deg but still it isn’t normal. A high pressure system hovers over the whole nation like some demented demon wishing to inflict upon us a false sense of security for by next week, and even toward Friday this week the temperatures are set to plummet. So on again with warmer clothes it has to be. With the high pressure comes low overnight temperatures too though. I don’t think the temperatures will drop below the seasonal average but I do think we will be in for some inclement weather in the not too distant future. We’ve not had any appreciable rain for some time and that is very unusual! Many of the plants in the garden are in full bloom however some of them do blossom even during the winter anyway. In a few months time I can picture us declaring that we haven’t had much of a summer and be making reference to this spectacular week of warmth and bright sunshine as being the only summer we’ll get this year. People do tend to forget much about the weather they’ve had and seem only to remember the times when it has been unusual. I can remember some very warm summers that we’ve had over the last sixty-something years but I can also remember some very poor summers and harsh winters like those of ’62/63 and ’63/64 being two notable ones. They say that the jet stream has more influence on our weather than anything else for it seems that when it flows in a certain direction relative to the British Isles our weather suffers as a result and we either get bad weather or good weather depending on which way the jet flows. I have been fortunate this last week as I have had plenty of spare time on my hands to be able to enjoy the warm sunshine out in the garden. In a few months time I may not get the opportunity, especially if the weather takes a turn for the worse!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 14, 2012
It appears that approximately 20 million households are about to have imposed upon them a hose pipe ban and so early in the year. It’s not even the end of Winter yet when you would expect there to have been plenty of rainfall over the months by now. The ban will affect those living in the south and east mainly. I often take an interest in the weather and I have noticed that whenever we have had rain up here in the north-west it has seldom been raining down there as often. No doubt more water gets consumed or used there because of the higher population density. That, coupled with fewer lakes and reservoirs is bound to create potential shortages. The further north and west you go in this country the more hills and lakes you see. It is because of this and also the prevailing westerly winds bringing moisture from the Atlantic that we tend to get the first of the rain. Even here though it hasn’t rained all that much over the winter months. It is fine having nice sunny weather but it is also important that we get the rain too. It has been suggested that a national network similar to those of the electricity and gas industries also be established for water supplies. I wonder why this wasn’t suggested years ago. People do waste water though and often do not realise the effort that is put into providing clean and potable water at our taps (faucets). The infrastructures set in place in a country make living in these modern times feasible, without them society would not ne able to survive. I hope we get much more rain so that our reservoirs and lakes remain filled. Maybe this year it will happen for in so many previous years there has been a tendency toward drier weather and resulting droughts.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 2, 2012
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We haven’t had much really cold or bad weather hereabouts during this winter season although much of the rest of the country has. We are approaching the Spring Equinox marking the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring but even now it feels more like Spring than Winter. With the change in temperature we are beginning to see more and more insect activity. On a wall at the front of our house a few days ago, a wall which faces more or less southward, was a huge bumble bee. It remained there for most of the day supposedly warming itself in the sun even though the sun wasn’t visible. Of course infra-red radiation cannot be seen with the human eye so there was no need for the sun to be visible to me. The one thing I dislike about warm weather, and it is the only thing about it that I dislike, is the increase of flying pests. Not all insects, flying or otherwise, are pests I have to admit but certain insects are, like the common house fly for instance! As I write this on Wednesday afternoon the sun is shining into the room and I can feel its warmth. I had been out for an hour or so earlier to attend on a small job and although it is pleasantly warm and I should be getting on with some work I am not doing so. Sometimes it’s nice just to sit and enjoy the warm weather as I know there will be times when I cannot. We still haven’t got the roller-shutter door installed but the guy assures me that he has got it in hand. It would be the perfect time for the job to get done as it looks like we are in for some wet and windy weather over this weekend.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 4, 2012
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The BBC weather service forecast is usually accurate if not dramatic in the presentation. We, as a country were warned of an impending snow storm that was going to cause unwanted disruption. The local forecasts are similar and we on the North West coast were told that everywhere would be affected. As it happens, here in Southport, all we have had all day is rain. The chances of it snowing here now due to the latest passing snowstorm are nil. That is not to say that other parts of my county, Lancashire, haven’t been affected, for they surely have been. If I were to drive away from the coast I am sure I would encounter some snow before I’d gone twenty miles. We have had bad winters before here in the North West and Southport has been snowed in but it is very rare. It is because we are right on the western coast and somewhat sheltered that we seldom get much snow. Last year folk recall that we had it bad but in actual fact it snowed for maybe two days where it froze and was compacted as ice for about two weeks which caused the problem. Tomorrow it will be icy under foot at least first thing in the morning as the temperatures are set to reach down to -1 C but during the day the temperatures are predicted to rise much higher to around 7 C. I hope so, I’m fed up being cold when out.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 13, 2012
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I haven’t really had much chance to see what is going on in the garden lately except at the weekend because my jury service commitment has kept me from home during the daylight hours. I remember looking around the rear garden on Sunday and seeing flowering plants in the border we created last Summer when we were working on the patio. It is pretty much sheltered from the prevailing westerly winds because of the garden wall which would help to keep them flowering for longer but it is January and not exactly the month to see flowering plants unless they are snowdrops. Daffodils it appears are sprouting up all over the country and there are some even as far north as Aberdeen according to one viewer on a television magazine program a day or so ago. It would seem that Spring has come early this year. Although it is still Winter we haven’t really had much wintry weather compared to what we are accustomed to. It is too early to say that we won’t get colder spells with snow and ice before the season is over or that it is too late in the season for it to happen but if we judge by what the plants are doing it appears unlikely. It it a good thing? Perhaps not. The reason I say that is the plants will be struggling to cope with the changes but more than that there is nothing to stop garden pests from flourishing in the mild weather. When the weather becomes cold it has the effect of curbing the growth or even killing off diseases and general garden pests that threaten a plant‘s developement, especially those we cultivate for food. The garden nevertheless looks fine and the grass is lush and flourishing too but no doubt so will the moss, clover and weeds! Our lawn isn’t that good! There will be plenty to do out in the garden soon enough not least of all replacing those plastic panels that the recent high winds blew out of the small greenhouse. Thankfully the large greenhouse has been unaffected but then it is a more professional affair with glass panels. I will be replacing the damaged plastic panels in the small greenhouse with glass in a few weeks time. There is much to do elsewhere before then.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 7, 2012
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I don’t have to remind my readers just how windy it has been these last few days. There has been little or no respite. Of all the weather elements wind is the one that I really dislike. Rain can be dealt with by using an umbrella or waterproof clothing but the wind sometimes defeats the use of an umbrella. Snow isn’t a problem until it becomes too deep or until it turns to compressed ice but having the correct footwear helps considerably and of course nobody moans when the sun is shining. It is the driving wind which gets me down. There is an old saying which has to apply and it goes like this: Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. A good spelling exercise for children but having an element of wisdom too. It really doesn’t matter what we think about the weather, nothing we can say will change it so we have to endure it when it is bad and be grateful when it is fine. Although I have been feeling somewhat windswept these last few days I know it won’t last, there will be better days ahead and so it is the same in life. We can be feeling down and thinking the whole world is against us. We can be feeling the pinch in these hard times. We can be experiencing bad relationships or having none at all. Many things in life can make us feel not at our best but they do help to build us up and give us the strength to go on. Wind or no wind, it doesn’t really matter but like the wind we must plod on regardless. Put on a smile, grin and bear it for things will surely get better and so will you.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 6, 2011
During the month of November we were told that we could expect the month of December to start off warm. November as it turned out wasn’t the hottest or warmest on record but it did come in second place for that title. Evidently there had been another year in which the month had been slightly warmer. It was expected that the warm weather would continue for the first two weeks into December but it didn’t. December is only a few days old and the weather is decidedly colder, wetter and more windy. Autumn is going out with a bang it seems. It is cold and Winter isn’t upon us yet! I wonder how cold it will be this time next month? Last year at this time almost everywhere was covered in snow and ice and it caught the local authority here quite by surprise. None of the roads had been gritted so even the main routes were treacherous to venture out upon. I remember trying to get to a house some 14 miles away and I turned back after one mile. That short journey took me well over an hour! I cancelled the appointment and went another time instead. As I write this it is Sunday morning and the view out into the street is quite bleak and I can hear the noise of the wind blowing over the chimney flue pipe making an eerie sound. 
The bare trees are swaying and the rain is falling heavily and beating against the window. Thankfully I am not going anywhere today, that is I haven’t planned on going out but the day is young. I am out at work tomorrow (Monday) and for the days ahead too so it is wrap yourself up well weather and keep yourself warm; and it’s not even Winter yet!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 16, 2011
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Before breakfast on Monday morning I walked up to the post box to post off my reply to the call of jury service I had received on Friday. The first thing I noticed was the change in temperature. Saturday and Sunday had both been warm and sunny but now it was cool, cloudy and damp, noticeably Autumn. There is much greenery in the street where I live as many of the trees do not shed their leaves but there are still many that do and they stand there in all their nakedness allowing light to shine to the ground beneath. The road is strewn with leaves and wet with the heavy dew from the cool night air. It is the right temperature now for the season. Somehow it doesn’t feel right to have high temperatures when most of the trees are bare. I like this time of year though, a time of rest, a harvesting of thoughts from the year that’s passed and preparing for harsher times ahead. Many people will be focusing on the preparations for Christmas in the next few weeks but I won’t be one of them. It is great to step off the treadmill and watch the antics of those around me struggling to make ends meet, worrying themselves over what gifts to buy and food to stock their larder with and all for one day! In the background Nature carries on as usual unaffected by it all and by which time Winter will have begun. Months of colder days and if we are unlucky, lots of snow and ice. I am glad to be living where I am though because we normally never have it as bad here as in the rest of the country. For now though the weather is fine and the temperature is just right.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 18, 2011
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This morning, Monday, I sat and watched the news and weather forecasts whilst eating my breakfast. Nothing unusual about that, I do it most mornings. It appears that the weather is going to turn nasty in the days ahead, wet and very windy and getting colder. According to the BBC we are in for hard times. When presenting the weather and the news too for that matter, I find the BBC an organisation that is over-dramatic in its presentation of events . For heaven’s sake, it’s just the news, it’s just the weather, just make the report and let us make the decisions as to how we react. To hear them talk about the weather for instance, we are going to find it difficult to get to work, keep ourselves warm and generally be able to cope with it all. It is October, it is Autumn, it is going to get colder when Winter follows on behind. It happens every year or have they forgotten? Even more annoying is the dramatic music they play when announcing themselves, the drum rolls between the headline announcements and the stern voices of the presenters. It makes it all sound like gloom, doom and despondency. How on earth are we going to be able to manage? Give me a break for heaven’s sake!
Life goes on, things happen, it’s all part of the scheme. Why make a song and dance of it all? I know of people who never watch the news on television or listen to it on the radio. They never buy newspapers and are not even connected to the Internet. Everything they know is by word of mouth or by their personal experiences. Their argument is that they have enough problems of their own to have to worry about what’s going on elsewhere or if the weather is going to be warm, dry, wet or windy. Whatever happens they just get on with their lives. They don’t need the hassle of information which does nothing to improve their lot. I admire that attitude to a point and it is one of the reasons I do not have an all-singing all-dancing mobile phone. I don’t take too much to heart what I see on the television and the weather will not stop me from living my life. Too much pressure begets too much pressure so I try to avoid it where possible.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 7, 2011
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Last week the weather was gloriously hot and sunny, actually too hot at times, for me anyway. This week the tables have turned and as I write it is very windy indeed with plenty of showers dotted throughout the day. The temperature has dropped dramatically from what we had (where I live) from 27 C to around 14 C. A bit of a change! Whilst I prefer the lower temperature it feels cooler because of the wind-chill factor. I can tolerate hot temperatures as long as I am inactive but I have always preferred the temperature to hover around 18 C. One thing you can say about the UK and that is that the weather can go from one extreme to the other in no time at all.
As a woman I like to keep any body hair to an absolute minimum so I use an epilator on my legs and also on my arms. I have to watch out for excessive growth on my face too and especially more so now I find as I get older. It’s funny that many older folk do start to grow ‘rogue hairs ’ so I keep things under control. A few weeks ago I bought myself a battery-driven hair trimmer for use in my nose and ears where hairs seem to be fond of growing. Everyone has facial hair and even hair in the nose and ears but as we get older they seem to get a second life and will grow profusely if we let them. How horrible! The trimming device is just the right thing to use and completely painless in use too. For the remainder of my face I resort to plucking any unwanted hair. Up until a year or so back I had electrolysis sessions to remove the unwanted hairs but there were so few of them I decided to cease treatment and pluck them myself as necessary. Now then I was using an ordinary mirror with good lighting and thought I had it all under control, a dark hair here, another there, one or two elsewhere and quite a few over my top lip were all plucked out easily. Doing this prevents the same hairs from appearing for at least five weeks, as is the case when an epilator is used. This is the normal hair re-growth cycle. Of course other hairs might be on a different cycle so one has to keep a constant check so that none are missed. To do this a magnifying mirror is more suitable but I have only a hand-held one. Nevertheless I had occasion to use the magnifying mirror to check on something else and whilst doing so noticed a fairly long hair under my chin that had obviously escaped my attention for a few days. I realised that I needed another but free-standing magnifying mirror and so I have placed an order over the Internet and now await its delivery. In the meantime I discovered many more hairs all over my face. All of them fair, to my relief, nevertheless some of those were longer than they should be I think. Looking at my face in a normal mirror reveals none of this so I am guessing that nobody else would see them either, especially as I do wear make-up all day, which is just as well I suppose. So, thinking I had no hairs to worry about suddenly changed to finding out that I had quite a few. Magnifying mirrors are wonderful things are they not? Every little blemish, hair, pimple, scar, pock mark is glaring at you and your otherwise beautiful soft skin suddenly looks like the surface of the Moon! Yuk! I’m glad that people do not have extra-sensitive vision else I would never go out! LOL.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 30, 2011
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The weather here in the UK is most unusually hot especially for this time in the year. The capital is the warmest place but even here on the west coast we have been enjoying temperatures of around 25 deg C. Extraordinary for the last couple of days in September and the forecast is for it to remain so into the weekend. Of course there is a lot of moisture in the air overnight which means the grass is wet where it is in the shade. We have not really had the opportunity to mow the grass over the last couple of weeks but this morning (Wednesday) I looked at it and decided that if I didn’t mow it today it might be too long for the mower to cope with it. We do have a motorised mower running on petrol but it is out of action so we have to use the less powerful (900W) electric one. I waited until the afternoon to allow the grass to dry out so in the morning I had a stint on the treadmill. At first the grass was fairly easy to mow but as I progressed up the garden it became almost impossibly difficult and I had to repeatedly switch the mower off and clear out the grass which was being compressed instead of being ejected because it was getting wetter as I moved along. This meant I had to stop and start the operation many times. It became unbearably hot and although I was wearing suitably lightweight clothing I was exhausted by the time I had finished. Normally it would take about forty minutes to mow the lawn if it was dry but this time it took me almost two hours! I had then to remove all the cuttings from the lawn because using the collection box for the cuttings was out of the question with the machine getting constantly blocked. Fortunately we have a lawn sweeping device which is mechanically propelled for collecting the cuttings but as I was already exhausted it wasn’t that easy to push it along and of course that had to be emptied about three times too. Altogether I was outside for three and a half hours. Who said gardening was easy? I suppose it would have been much easier had the weather been cooler and the grass drier. There will most probably be a need to cut the grass again in October and that should be the last time until next Spring. When I had finished I sat for a while on the garden bench and relaxed in the warm sunshine. It is most strange seeing the larger trees devoid of leaves with bright sunshine and high temperatures when normally it would be much cooler. Our weather gets stranger every year.
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