Whats the weather like near you?

[peds]

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 (I assume) that it's not filled with people who have retired there from London and who object to any kind of rural work!

Jeez, you are right there. Okay, you win. 

[Bolt]

5 hours ago, Big J said:

 

Maybe, but it's a bit like growing up in a cage and thinking that's normal too.

 

It's just objectively miserable. You don't quite realise how much it negatively affects your life until you get away from it. Being able to plan an outdoor activity without having to worry about rain and wind, or covering everything you own in mud.

 

I know that I'm negative as f**k about the West Country, but it left a deep and lasting impression on me, and it wasn't a good one.

Possibly….., but I first left ‘the cage’ when I was in my late teens.  I lived and worked all over the UK, depending on where the opportunities arise, so I know a thing or two about working in all weathers.

 

Maybe it’s my formative years that have resulted in me never spending too much time worrying about wind, rain or mud.

[Bolt]

3 hours ago, Big J said:

 

…..at least (I assume) that it's not filled with people who have retired there from London and who object to any kind of rural work!

In 100% agreement there though.  The imported residents (and they are not limited to Londoners) to the West Country are the main reason I don’t regret leaving!

[Big J]

2 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Possibly….., but I first left ‘the cage’ when I was in my late teens.  I lived and worked all over the UK, depending on where the opportunities arise, so I know a thing or two about working in all weathers.

 

Maybe it’s my formative years that have resulted in me never spending too much time worrying about wind, rain or mud.

 

I take your point, and I am much the same. Spent my childhood outside, fishing, cycling, climbing trees and such like.

 

I'm not saying that it's impossible to be outside in all weathers in the UK, only that it's not very pleasant. And then when you're on a forestry job, a night of heavy rain is the difference between the work being a breeze or a total nightmare. Similar for many outdoor trades. But 4 years of forestry in Devon scarred me. It was really good fun when the weather went our way, but more often than not, it coincided with summer when all the lardy-da's wanted a complete stop because of nesting pigeons or other such nonsense.

 

The weather still obviously affects things here as well, but really very rarely. Given that I largely work indoors now, my primary interaction with the outdoors is through cycling, and it's very rarely the kind of weather that makes you rethink whether to go out or not. Whereas I was in the UK for two weeks at Easter and it rained solidly for ten days, including two named storms.

 

I fully realise that moaning about the weather is pointless. I should try to be more positive about it, so I will say that I greatly appreciate that we have defined seasons here, that it rarely rains, that it's often very sunny and that the sandy soil means that even if it does rain, it's not muddy

[Big J]

Unusually warm here today at 16c. Quite grey, but it isn't usually this warm here in late October. 

 

Still decent chanterelle picking to be had too. My wife and I got over a kilo this morning.

[difflock]

The perfect end to a perfect day.

[sime42]

Apart from the finger/thumb!

[Whoppa Choppa]

I have to say; in all my 60+ years I've never known a year like it.

 

After a wet end to 2023,  deceptively dry January '24, it rained almost non stop until late May. We had one week of dust in July. Started raining again in August and apart from the first two weeks in November, it's been non stop rain again since..

 

We looked at our estate timber sales for the year and they are 20% of what we normally harvest. This is due to nothing other than the saturated ground making work either impossible or causing more damage than it's worth.

 

Please God I never want to see the likes of this again.

[Rough Cutter]

55 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

I have to say; in all my 60+ years I've never known a year like it.

 

After a wet end to 2023,  deceptively dry January '24, it rained almost non stop until late May. We had one week of dust in July. Started raining again in August and apart from the first two weeks in November, it's been non stop rain again since..

 

We looked at our estate timber sales for the year and they are 20% of what we normally harvest. This is due to nothing other than the saturated ground making work either impossible or causing more damage than it's worth.

 

Please God I never want to see the likes of this again.

Yup.

Mud on top of rain with extra mud here for most of the year.

It is rubbish 

[Rich Rule]

Been cold and dry here for the most part.  
 

Had a sprinkling of snow about 2 weeks ago but that went.

 

It started snowing this afternoon and windy.

 

Winter is coming,  Wools have been in for the last month or so.  -8c yesterday morning trying to get a throwline in to a large Elm.  Almost maxed out a 60m rope with a base tie.

 

It wasn’t too bad once we got going though.