It's back to the Monsoon season again down on the Irish Riviera.
June was the hottest on record and I think July is going to make up for it with heavy rain forecast for the next week or so.
At least I don't need to water outside at the moment. Just the new polytunnel morning and night.
We have even lit the stove at tea time today. I lit it to burn some rubbish but then I added some wood to take the chill off the roof so to speak:
Oh well. I suppose we had our Summer in June?
We need the rain...we are staying in Somerset at the moment and it is SO dry...
ReplyDeleteHope you have a nice break GZ. We are getting very heavy rain today. I thinks it's the remnants of the storm that hit the Netherlands.
ReplyDeleteFriends in Fife said that they had had heavy rain for three days
DeleteYes there is a lot of heavy rain about.
DeleteSame here Dave. Gale force winds brewing up now and very chilly.
ReplyDeleteIt's unbelievable JayCee. Imagine being so unlucky to have booked a week or two in July and you get weather like we're having at the moment? At least we had a bit of an heatwave in June.
ReplyDeleteI lit the stove for an hour two nights this week to take the chill off and for my comfort. Tonight is better because we have had good sunshine today. Summers like this come and go.
ReplyDeleteVery sensible Rachel. Summer came too soon here in June and now we are paying for it.
ReplyDeleteFriday is scheduled to be a lovely, hot and summery dear for us here in Sunny South Yorkshire but I don't think it heralds a settled spell of proper summer.
ReplyDeleteIt's dry here at the moment YP but showery weather forecast for all next week.
DeleteI do like a nice wood fire. We had a free standing one in a home we had built and the top was broad enough to have a kettle sitting at the back all day and brought forward for boiling whenever a cuppa was required.
ReplyDeleteThey have stopped building chimneys on new houses in Ireland River. When we built our dwelling it was a requirement to have a chimney in your plans.
DeleteOurs was a freestanding wood heater similar to the slow combustion ones but a square shape, about eight inches out from the wall with a flue that went through the ceiling and out the roof, it was placed on a metre square slab of slate tiles.
DeleteIt sounds great River. Our stove burns wood and smokeless fuel.
DeleteSummer came late here thank goodness. The heat is just starting to soar. How nice, it sounds to me. to be able to enjoy rain and a fire now and again in 'summer'. But I do hope you have a bit more summer
ReplyDeleteWe had fabulous weather in June Linda. But now it's gone back to warm rain.
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