One Strike - and you're OUT!!

~Same here Barbara! We had an overhead storm from about 10pm to 5 am and our phone line went out too.Thank goodness for surge protectors!

Aha, i thought i'd not 'seen' you !
It's nice to hear your 'voice' again now :)

Welcome Back Spritz, I thought you must of been too buzy with your garden to come onto GOY.. :))

and back with such happy bright flowers too..my most favorite of all Daisies!..Welcome back Spritz!

Welcome back Spritz. Glad the problems are all fixed. Beautiful, cheerful daisies. I especially like the top one. What is this please?

Welcome back. Can you send some rain up to Bracknell please - we're getting DESPERATE!!! Just had to top up the pond yet again and now an established daphne is threatening to die on me :-(

Can I order a good soaking aswell please? It's 30 degrees here today and not a cloud in the sky. Now I'm not complaining about the weather but all my carrots are sending out seed heads, Aaaarrr.
By the way It's not good enough spritzy your gona have to do something about that intermitant conection, we can't be doing without you here at least two or three times a day.....HeHe.
Glad you got back so quick !

H & K's...........Ian

Thanks - It didn't feel very quick, Ian - it was AWFUL!!!!

Gilli, the flowers are both Anthemis tinctoria, the top one is called 'E.C. Buxton' and the paler one is 'Sauce Hollandaise'. I'm glad you like them - so do I!! :-)

Andrew and Ian, we had 24 mm of rain...whatever that is...I can't understand metric measures! LOL.

Wondered where you were - thought maybe you'd gone away for a few days following all your recent hard work. What's your broadband speed like normally being as you live in a quaint village - ours is awful as the nearest telephone exchange is 3 miles away :-( Pleased you are back up and running.

Does anyone know what 24mm means in English so Barbara and I can both understand how hard it rained?.....LOL.
I hope you don't have any more faults with your intra-web.net thingy.

H & K's............Ian

Dawn - SLOW. Same problem!

Ian - I can do without any more storms, as you might guess! I don't like being struck by lightning! :-(

Love the title to this blog ! Lol.Seriously though....glad to see you back.The site is not the same without you !

~I had a new water butt installed on Tuesday and it was 100 litres completely empty~it filled in a few hours on Thurs evening~that sounds quite a lot to me!We had lightning overhead for hours as if it was going away for a few minutes and than circling round again from about 9pm to 5 am~I have never heard such loud thunder and the lightning was quite scary!practically simultaneous so right overhead!

Wow Arlene....thats some volume of rain.Storms can be quite daunting at times !

You are only across the Bristol Channel from us, so it was the same storm, I suppose! Scary, wasn't it! Our bit started at about 6.30 p.m. and went on until around 9 -ish. The TV went off and then we had lots of mini-powercuts as well as the 'strike' down the phone line. Several of the cottages in the village were struck.

We had heavy down pour this afternoon, but no thunder, could do with a bit more my water butts nearly empty, and my fish could do with their pond topping up. Pleased your back Barbara.

Thanks, Clarice! Not a nice reason for being off the site!

Arlene, I hope you weren't too frightened by that awful sounding storm, I should imagine that to fill a 100 ltr. butt in a few hours takes a lot of rain.
Barbara, I hope you never have to experience anything like that again, sounds terrifying.

H & K's and gentle rain every night to you............Ian

It was poor Henry who suffered most. He was so scared, he ran round and round barking his head off. I couldn't get him settled. :-(

~we have lightning storms every year or so ~ we have had the modem fried one year and some cabling needed to be replaced the next year but we now have surge protectors which were brilliant.I thought we were hit but it was the phone line
Thanks Ian~I am glad to say we are all okay!

Beautiful daisies Spritz, welcome back.
I'll second that request for rain in DESPERATE Bracknell

Poor Henry, My 'duke' used to hide under the table and shiver like jelly at the first rumble and not come out until it was well, well over. Not a very good advert for a huge German Sheppard? LOL.

More H & K's.......Ian

Our dogs used to sense the storms coming Spritz....their behaviour was so nervy just before one hit !

H. heard the thunder well before we did! We didn't know why he was barking...but we soon found out!

Yes...they know ! Its that sense we humans do not have !

24 mm is just short of 1 inch. so that is one heck of a rain for.
we had thunder rumbling for 2 hours this afternoon and only 7 spots of rain landed on me. i had been so hopeful it was going to rain for my plants. hosepipe will have to be used tomorrow if no rain tonight.

It rained for a few hours last night - 7mm.

Husband bought me a rain gauge, so I know! Sorry you didn't get any, Sbg.

What a thing to happen !
I'm glad it's all sorted out now.

we had some too~everything looking really fresh this morning!
We seem to get your weather a few hours later Barbara.

Hot, Hot, Hot today. I really couldn't face doing much outside before about 6 p.m. and Henry stayed indoors for most of the day.