UK gardening - Frost due?

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Frost due?

Broadback

2007-05-27, 9:25 am

Here near Stoke on Trent in the North Midlands I see that a temperature
of 2 deg C is forecast for Monday night with 4 deg C the next night.
Strong probability of a frost I suspect. Lots of work for me as I have
just planted out my bedding plants and outdoor toms.

Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)

2007-05-27, 9:25 am

"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Here near Stoke on Trent in the North Midlands I see that a temperature of
> 2 deg C is forecast for Monday night with 4 deg C the next night. Strong
> probability of a frost I suspect. Lots of work for me as I have just
> planted out my bedding plants and outdoor toms.

The forecast for here is 6C (weatherpulse). Hopefully no frost and the
fleece stuff was rolled up and put away months ago.
I guess you will get away with those cool nights with the bedding plants as
long as the daytime temps are reasonable. Tomatoes are far too tender for me
so I stick to Bananas and Gingers:-)

Geoff

2007-05-27, 9:25 am

I remember the furore caused when the BBC said there would be, "a touch of
frost" one night. It was summer and a lot of people had forgotten the
programme of David Frost's was called that!!!

Geoff

Martin

2007-05-27, 9:25 am

On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:12:20 GMT, "Geoff" <NOJOY@virgin.net> wrote:

>I remember the furore caused when the BBC said there would be, "a touch of
>frost" one night. It was summer and a lot of people had forgotten the
>programme of David Frost's was called that!!!

David Jason, shirley?
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Martin

Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)

2007-05-27, 1:25 pm

"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:12:20 GMT, "Geoff" <NOJOY@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>
> David Jason, shirley?
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>
> Martin
>
No, Martha or is it Shirley. I think Geoff is right. I do remember them
using that terminology a few times and I even remember "Frost on Sunday"

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-27, 5:25 pm

On May 27, 10:31 am, Broadback <w...@towill.plus.com> wrote:
> Here near Stoke on Trent in the North Midlands I see that a temperature
> of 2 deg C is forecast for Monday night with 4 deg C the next night.
> Strong probability of a frost I suspect. Lots of work for me as I have
> just planted out my bedding plants and outdoor toms.

Here in sunnyless France (50 kilometres South of Clerrmont Ferrand) we
had a big frost last night and yet today we ate outside at friends at
lunchtime in the sun!!

Our tomatoes are still in their big pots ready to be planted tomorrow,
it's just as well they were put on the south facing wall.

Judith

Martin

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:26:34 +0100, "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)"
<reply@newsgroups.com> wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:2tpi5319r768mmq4vp9i5q1losoo1t5j0k@4ax.com...
>No, Martha or is it Shirley. I think Geoff is right. I do remember them
>using that terminology a few times and I even remember "Frost on Sunday"

but that isn't what Geoff said.

>

A Touch of Frost is/was a detective series featuring David Jason.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0108967/
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Martin

Martin

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On 27 May 2007 12:57:26 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 27, 10:31 am, Broadback <w...@towill.plus.com> wrote:
>
>Here in sunnyless France (50 kilometres South of Clerrmont Ferrand) we
>had a big frost last night and yet today we ate outside at friends at
>lunchtime in the sun!!

No floods yet?

Après vous le deluge
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Martin

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On May 28, 12:25 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:

> No floods yet?
>
> Apr=E8s vous le deluge

Huge inundation of rain, it's fortunate that we are on high ground,
almost on top of a volcano!! I can't make this weather out, today
pouring again but so warm, thunder lightening last night yet at
lunchtime yesterday, we ate outside!!!

I must devise a way to dry my washing as I don't have a tumble drier,
ah penny just dropped, string up a line in the barn!

Judith

Martin

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On 28 May 2007 04:32:34 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 28, 12:25 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>Huge inundation of rain, it's fortunate that we are on high ground,
>almost on top of a volcano!! I can't make this weather out, today
>pouring again but so warm, thunder lightening last night yet at
>lunchtime yesterday, we ate outside!!!

It could be worse
http://www.meteox.nl/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

>
>I must devise a way to dry my washing as I don't have a tumble drier,
>ah penny just dropped, string up a line in the barn!

Put it in the traditional bread oven?
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Martin

Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:26:34 +0100, "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)"
> <reply@newsgroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> but that isn't what Geoff said.
>
>
> A Touch of Frost is/was a detective series featuring David Jason.
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0108967/
> --
>
> Martin
>
It is indeed a detective thing but I remember the terminology being used
decades ago -and later on there will be a Touch of Frost (big grin from
presenter) with David Frost talking to (any celebrity).

Martin

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:47:23 +0100, "Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)"
<reply@newsgroups.com> wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
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>It is indeed a detective thing but I remember the terminology being used
>decades ago -and later on there will be a Touch of Frost (big grin from
>presenter) with David Frost talking to (any celebrity).
>

or more probably a touch of frost ... blah de bah.
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Martin

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-28, 9:25 am

On May 28, 12:41 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
> Put it in the traditional bread oven?

We do have a bakehouse attacked to the main house, it has a huge
circular oven with bricks top bottom and sides, if I lit that I could
feed the five thousand!

Judith

Martin

2007-05-28, 1:25 pm

On 28 May 2007 07:22:53 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 28, 12:41 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>We do have a bakehouse attacked to the main house,

I guessed.

> it has a huge
>circular oven with bricks top bottom and sides, if I lit that I could
>feed the five thousand!

If you get enough rain you might get the fishes too :-)
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Martin

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-28, 5:25 pm

On May 28, 5:06 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
> I guessed.

How??

> If you get enough rain you might get the fishes too :-)
> --
>

I have had panga and lovely it was. For the second course I had
breast of duck, pink, but I had so many glasses of wine by then, that
I forgot I don't like pink duck, and I have to admit, it was lovely.
Time for bed, it is poutrng here, a lof fire is on, I can see a faint
outline of a volcano and it's almost 11p.m.

Bon Nuit Martin

Judith in unsunny France

Martin

2007-05-28, 5:25 pm

On 28 May 2007 13:56:21 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 28, 5:06 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>How??

I imagined an old French cottage.

>
>
>
>I have had panga and lovely it was. For the second course I had
>breast of duck, pink, but I had so many glasses of wine by then, that
>I forgot I don't like pink duck, and I have to admit, it was lovely.
>Time for bed, it is poutrng here, a lof fire is on, I can see a faint
>outline of a volcano and it's almost 11p.m.
>
>Bon Nuit Martin
>
>Judith in unsunny France
>
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Martin

La Puce

2007-05-28, 5:25 pm

On 28 May, 21:56, "judith.le...@googlemail.com"
<judith.le...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Bon Nuit Martin

Bonne nuit.

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-29, 9:25 am

On May 28, 10:34 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
> I imagined an old French cottage.

Not quite, a 6 bedroom old farmhouse made of Auvergne stone. I love
it, it's not at all posh, we have stone floors downstairs, the kitchen
is vaulted and none of the rooms are square, it's heaven and not only
that, our neighbours are exceptional, they are not as some English
percieve the French, they are warm, loving and welcoming.

The sun is peeking in and out so I can try and sow some lettuce today
without it being washed out of the soil.

Judith

Martin

2007-05-29, 5:25 pm

On 28 May 2007 15:00:55 -0700, La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:

>On 28 May, 21:56, "judith.le...@googlemail.com"
><judith.le...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>Bonne nuit.

Bonne nuit.
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Martin

Martin

2007-05-29, 5:25 pm

On 29 May 2007 03:54:42 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 28, 10:34 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>Not quite, a 6 bedroom old farmhouse made of Auvergne stone. I love
>it, it's not at all posh, we have stone floors downstairs, the kitchen
>is vaulted and none of the rooms are square, it's heaven and not only
>that, our neighbours are exceptional, they are not as some English
>percieve the French, they are warm, loving and welcoming.

OK I imagined all the old cottages and houses we looked at in Brittany before
deciding we didn't want to live there. All had large bread ovens, cracked walls,
rotting window frames and broken slates on the roof. Few had inside toilets,
running water etc. one had no internal doors. One semi detached house/hovel had
a stream running under/through the abandoned attached house. The owner had moved
to Paris and nobody had heard from him for 20 years.

>
>The sun is peeking in and out so I can try and sow some lettuce today
>without it being washed out of the soil.

We had some more rain and about 10 minutes of setting sun.
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Martin

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-30, 9:25 am

On May 29, 10:31 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
> OK I imagined all the old cottages and houses we looked at in Brittany before
> deciding we didn't want to live there. All had large bread ovens, cracked walls,
> rotting window frames and broken slates on the roof. Few had inside toilets,
> running water etc. one had no internal doors. One semi detached house/hovel had
> a stream running under/through the abandoned attached house. The owner had moved
> to Paris and nobody had heard from him for 20 years.

Ours wasn't much better when we bought it 20 years ago!!!!!
> We had some more rain and about 10 minutes of setting sun.

The sun is shining now but the weather forecast for this p.m. is
dire. I've forgotten where you are Martin.

Judith

Martin

2007-05-30, 9:25 am

On 30 May 2007 02:47:58 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 29, 10:31 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>Ours wasn't much better when we bought it 20 years ago!!!!!

In Cote d'Amor we found many end of life tumbledown cottages at about 30% of the
price of a similar sized house in reasonable condition. The cost of restoring a
house tripled the original price. There were many restored houses on the market
that didn't sell, for about the same price we would have paid in the Netherlands
at that time. Chatting to disenchanted owners, mainly Parisians, Germans and
Dutch we discovered that outside the two month summer tourist season, the area
was dead and the weather miserable. The weather was sometimes miserable in the
tourist season too. The all time low was AFAIR in 1988 when it rained every day
for the whole three weeks we were there and the temperature never exceeded
16DegC. It was too cold to swim in the sea for any length of time even wearing
wet suits.

>
>The sun is shining now but the weather forecast for this p.m. is
>dire. I've forgotten where you are Martin.

It's sunny and windy today in ZH today.
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Martin

judith.lea99@googlemail.com

2007-05-30, 1:25 pm

On May 30, 12:07 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
> It's sunny and windy today in ZH today.
> --
>

I might just pop over to warm myself up, I put the wood burnner on
last night and then it got so hot, we nodded off and woke in the early
hours of the morning. Guess who didn't sleep until around 7a.m.!!!

Tonight, I might dye my grey roots to the champagne colour of my 30's,
natural then, not so natural now and to keep on topic I planted out
lots of veggie today includingsquash, tomato, courgette and I have
sown or is that sewn, mixed lettuce seed.

Judith

Martin

2007-05-30, 1:25 pm

On 30 May 2007 09:07:02 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
<judith.lea99@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On May 30, 12:07 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>I might just pop over to warm myself up, I put the wood burnner on
>last night and then it got so hot, we nodded off and woke in the early
>hours of the morning. Guess who didn't sleep until around 7a.m.!!!
>
>Tonight, I might dye my grey roots to the champagne colour of my 30's,
>natural then, not so natural now and to keep on topic I planted out
>lots of veggie today includingsquash, tomato, courgette and I have
>sown or is that sewn, mixed lettuce seed.

Not only grey roots, ZH has turned grey overcast and cold again. We are going
to Sheffield and then Black Country next week for some British rain. Almost
certainly there will be the traditional freak storm for the ferry crossing to
Hull on Saturday night.
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Martin

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