Had a lovely sunny day in Brittas today. Unfortunately stayed out an hour too long in the sun... oh well! Happy days had by all. 8 lads, a barbeque, a rugby ball and the sun, can you beat it?

johnfás wrote:

Had a lovely sunny day in Brittas today. Unfortunately stayed out an hour too long in the sun... oh well! Happy days had by all. 8 lads, a barbeque, a rugby ball and the sun, can you beat it?

Not really but a couple of hurleys and a sliotar on a beach ... try it sometime.

The warmest May in Ireland since records began (about 120 years?), according to the Met.

The weather is so boring, gimme some rain clouds to mix it up! I'm shrivelling in the sun!

Cooler here tonight - noticeably, though it's still sunny. Expecting a proper day's rain tomorrow. six fat drops splatted on the windscreen yesterday, evening - one, two and then three - and I almost got excited but that was it.

Was hoping to initiate the new barbecue tomorrow night (even in its very tentative experimental stage) for my book club but that's unlikely now. Still... will remain optimistic; none of the rain promised so far has materialised and I've lots of blankets if it's just cool.

Hmmm.

Kate P wrote:

Cooler here tonight - noticeably, though it's still sunny. Expecting a proper day's rain tomorrow. six fat drops splatted on the windscreen yesterday, evening - one, two and then three - and I almost got excited but that was it.

Yep, there is rain promised for tomorrow, I hope it arrives.

Raining solidly for the last couple of hours. I can hear the lawn sucking at the juiciness of it after the relative drought here.

That's it now for the next three months lads...

A good night for the wind - upto 300MW out of a maximum of 800MW. Heading towards 200MW now though. I wonder if coupled with PV cells on everyone's lawns tripled with solar showers, could we have enough energy coming out of the environment

Listen to this the whole way through - it's rather fine and gets sunnier bar by bar.

Sun is bopping in the sky here. The lawn is flat out after its two day bender - I think I can even hear it belch contentedly. Lord, but I love these 'great to be alive mornings.'

Thanks Kate.

What is that about a belching lawn? May have to call in the carbon police.

Yeehaw!


Stormy, overcast and that thing that was hanging around in the sky for the past few months is on holidays today.

At 1 o'clock the level of electricity produced is reaching half of what the Max the country is capable of with wind turbines.

905 wrote:

Rain damn you! Rain!

Well today it did, and I can hear still more sweet rain-drops falling outside in my gardens. Today is a beatiful day, so wet, so rainy, so refreshing. Finally we have a properly wet day to celebrate. Yay!!!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

905 wrote:

Rain damn you! Rain!

Well today it did, and I can hear still more sweet rain-drops falling outside in my gardens. Today is a beatiful day, so wet, so rainy, so refreshing. Finally we have a properly wet day to celebrate. Yay!!!

Tis a fresh one......

At least the wind is doing something today



Global storming ..

Auditor #9 wrote:

At least the wind is doing something today



Global storming ..

Definitely, it is wild where I am. The Round Ireland boat race has been delayed by 2 days by this weather.

The wind was unbelievable today. Everywhere I looked today, there were branches and leaves blown off by the gales. Tremendous stuff.

The wind blew down many of my sunflowers though the gaps in the fence which they are growing up against and then the lambs in the field eat the heads clean off them.Bastard sheep...

cookiemonster wrote:

The wind blew down many of my sunflowers though the gaps in the fence which they are growing up against and then the lambs in the field eat the heads clean off them.Bastard sheep...

Indeed, just set a fox amongst them and that'll put manners on them.

The next week is to be wet, wet, wet. By Friday we should all look like this;

Yesterday was wonderfully rainy - a soft monsoon. Last night, the front of my as yet not permanently assembled barbecue (ie, the fireplace) blew down and broke. Not happy about that - even if it can be repaired.

More rain, less wind please for the sake of all who are currently marking exam papers or otherwise stuck indoors across the country for the next couple of weeks.

Kate P wrote:

More rain, less wind please for the sake of all who are currently marking exam papers or otherwise stuck indoors across the country for the next couple of weeks.

I think your wish will be granted. Hows the marking going, are the scripts of a fairly high standard and is anything striking you as particularly well thought-out for a pressurised exam-type essay?

Sadly, I can't discuss the marking process or the papers. I'm happy with my own progress though.

And will be happier if that wish for rain is granted. I needn't feel guilty about the long grass.

Kate P wrote:

Sadly, I can't discuss the marking process or the papers. I'm happy with my own progress though.

Ah, well. The papers didn't seem to be too controversial this year, so there shouldn't be too much fuss over the marking.

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And will be happier if that wish for rain is granted. I needn't feel guilty about the long grass.

Just ask riadach for one of his mhíliste lads to come over and do it for you. As Tánaiste, you shouldn't have to worry about these things.

Bah!

cookiemonster wrote:

Bah!

*Brainwave* cookiemonster, could you get your sheep to Kate P's land? That way her grass can be cut by the sheep at no cost to riadach's mhílíste while you remove a menace to your sunflowers. Kill three birds with one stone!