Here is the Weather...

As the gardening season draws to a close, I cannot help but reflect on the weather – largely because today it is sunnier, pleasanter and brighter than it has been for weeks.

They say that Eskimos have many words for ‘snow’.  Well I think that after the last few weeks/months, when it has been all but impossible to stick your head out of the door without getting wet, we in Devon could compete.  Not in any particular order, but since my last blog we have experienced all of the following, though not necessarily all on the same day:

1.    Rain

2.    Heavy rain

3.    Light rain

4.    Rain showers

5.    Cloud

6.    Rain and cloud

7.    Rainy and cloudy

8.    Cloudy

9.    A Sprinkling of Rain

10. It’s spitting!

11. Coming down like stair-rods

12. Hail

13. Bigger hail

14. Sleet

15. Damp

16. Very damp

17. Mud

18. Lots of mud

19. Even more mud

20. Squelching grass

21. Mist

22. Fog

23. Drips

24. Torrents

25. Rivers in the road

26. Floods

27. Puddles

28. Big puddles

29. Raging torrents (and not just IN the rivers)

30. Chilly

31. Freezing cold

32. Cool

33. Cloudy

34. Very cloudy

35. Grey cloud

36. White cloud

37. Cold and damp getting ‘into your bones’ (More about bones another day)

And so...hats, scarves, gloves have been resurrected, potatoes rotted in the ground, grass grew longer and wetter than was strictly allowable under allotment rules, and now we all live in hope of a few nice, crisp, cold day...Watch this space for updates...