Happy First Day Of Spring to you.Lets just hope that the weather starts to improve, and Mr Sun gets his hat on.
Bazza

hello bazza

what part of the country are you in? Here in SW Scotland it is still very much winter but the tupils and daffs are putting on a brave fight!

Ian Mclaughlin
Hi
I'm in North Wales.Its been a nice day here with sunshine all day.The garden is still a bit too wet in parts for me to do any serious work on yet.
Love Scotland used to go sea fishing a lot up there.
Bazza

Happy first day of spring to you too, Bazza, although I think Feb was a lot more spring-like than March is!

I live by a golf course, and I recently endured a spate of hailstones raining down on me. The other day, someone dropped a load of golf balls all over the road and as I was driving along, I saw them and thought 'My God, those are the biggest hailstones I have ever seen.' It was like climate change gone mad.

Anyway, golf balls have gone, and hopefully taken the hailstones with them.
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Sara B
Hi
They talk about crazy weather now. I can remember a few years ago, one evening there was a realy strange noise outside. When I looked there was hailstones everywhere I kid you not as big as golf balls.I have never seen anything like it before or since. Realy scary in a way.They were that big that they were going through rust spots on my then old banger on the yard.When I brought some into the house they took half an hour to melt away.True honestly.
Your sighting of golf balls might have been the after effects of your pub lunch lol.
Bazza

hi baz

lo and behold sun out here
i work outside all the time and the winds have been baltic.
never been to wales looks good thro on telly .as for hailstones we get them that big we play football with them .only kidding true scotsmen melt them down and sell them as bottled water .

Ian Mclaughlin
Hi
Saturday is going to be sunny for us here.Just my luck to be tied up with something else,so much to do in the garden.
I reckon its pretty close between Scotland and Wales for great scenery.One time when I went to Scotland we took a ferry from Weims Bay (spelling)to an island and got on another ferry to another island and then a mini bus to a hotel. I cannot remember the name of the place,something like Tainabruick?. Fantastic views around every corner and lots of wildlife. Even spotted a couple of wild haggis in a field lol. That was after we had a few shorts at the hotel though.
Bazza

We're on the outskirts of Swindon and it amazes us how localised the weather can be: on a recent sunny day the A34 - about 10 miles away - was closed temporarily by a snow storm! I was going to say we're not all from Scotland when I remembered my Granny was Scottish; she was a McFarlane and her clan were renowned cattle rustlers. They found the full moon helpful and it became known locally as 'McFarlane's Lantern'. Anyway, Happy Spring/Summer to you all.....now back to my seeds!

Hi Brian
Fascinating! Wasn't the McFarline closely tied up with another opposing clan - or I imagine this was the general order of the day between Scottish clans at war with one another, who all had similar names to 'McFarlane'. What seeds are you growing?
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Hi Sarah! Not many seeds actually as my allotment is small and I usually buy plants
(leeks, broad beans, tomato). I grow tumbler tomatoes from seed and they go into hanging baskets at home. Some seeds (spinach, parsley) I start in guttering and then slide them into the soil when ready.
Early potatoes are chitting, I usually have just two 1oft rows of them and likewise maincrop. Half the allotment is given over to soft fruit and asparagus. The sun has just broken through the mist and even better is forecast for tomorrow - then winter returns! Brian.