HOPE YOU ARE ALL SAFE

thanks yorkshire, hope you dry off soon! its pouring down here!

its horrendous sticki, you take care

i live on a hill too, its ok so far but it will be flooding not so far away, its not good is it.

Thanks Yorkie, I think its bad all over, we have extra ponds here in lincs as well, staying indoors unless neccessary is about all we can do, sorry about your garage and garden, hope it lays off soon, you stay safe as well and keep smiling....

its not good your right, just hope all the flood areas up here are going to be o.k. its just brought one of Ralphs lovely roses down to the ground, raining to hard to go out and do anything with it,
Lincass. we all seem to be getting it really bad, its garden open day here tomorrow, think it will be cancelled, you take care and stay inside

Thanks Yorkshire as long as your safe thats what counts material things like gardens can be replaced but you can't take care.

Sorry about your garden and flood to Yorkshire .

Still no rain with us yet.

Very windy

Take care gardens can be replaced .

This weather is so so crasy.

cheers Clarice, what is your weather like, hope its better than here,

Its okay here (London), although it is raining and has been for hours, just not that heavy. But my sister was sandbagging yesterday - she lives to the west of Manchester, I shall call her in a minute to find out how bad it is...

glad you o'k scot, I am passed worrying about the garden now, everything is flooded,the wind is really getting up now

Bamboo it really is bad up here, let us know how your sister is coping,

Please keep safe everyone

Hi Yorks ..
I hope the water subsides soon..
stay safe ... xxx

thanks Terra, are you having much your way

My property is quite a way up a hill, so any flooding is always lower down in the town, nearer to the river.
I feel so sorry for everyone who has floods in their homes and businesses.
Awful for the wildlife too ...

I agree Terra, homes buisnesses and wildlife, your lucky like sticki and me living on a hill, we dread to think what is happening down in our village

my garage can get flooded too yorks.

im amazed there is any colour in the garden at all!

three beautiful rose bushes here in the garden are ruined Sticki

Just spoke to my sis - she says its raining and has been for ages, but they're nowhere near flooded, just a few puddles - its Yorkshire and Newcastle that have borne the brunt.

Bamboo glad she is o,k, your right, I am in west yorkshire so you can imagine how bad it is up here,

oh yorks, im so sorry, it makes you very sad to watch it happening.

might be going for indoor plants at this rate!

Not to mention acquiring life rings and a boat... hope it eases back soon, Yorkshire.

I've been looking at the weather maps.
Can see how Yorkshire area is getting loads of rain :o(

we were forecast for the worst of it, we reckon we had three inches in ten minutes at 8 this morning,

sticki, I am not spending more money on plants, not after this lot of rain

bit like we had last week ~ i wouldnt have believed it if i hadnt seen it

it is wimbledon time ~ maybe that explains it??

So sorry to hear this Yorkshire, we are ok here, its raining quite hard, and we had some large claps of thunder an hour ago, but I think we are lucky at the moment . Hope it will soon subside for you.

its horrendous Cinders, glad you are o.k. the garden is ruined, the pond on the veg patch is now becoming a lake, I just need a couple of ducks out there now,

Not good,is it Val? ..managed to get out just before 8am..in dressing gown ..but had the sense to put my shoes on instead of slippers! Lol...some of pots under patio table,and a few in growhouse..thank goodness for the gravel instead of lawn..no damage really,just a few things bent over..so glad we are on a slope too..this gale force wind with rain is the worst,I think...anyway,we are safe..so gardens will cope..and if not,tough !

glad your o.k. bloomer, its unbelievable what we have had is'nt it, I can't remember seeing so much water, feel like throwing the towel in now and just giving up on it, might go book a holiday and get away from here,Ralph was sweeping the garage out just after 8 this morning,

Go on,Val ..get something booked..leave it all behind for a while,and just think sod it ! :o)

Bless you all, have heard the news about the weather, it is just diabolical, I feel for you. As B. says York, go on book a nice hol and get some sunshine abroad. You will then have the strength to face it all on your return. Take care. Its been very wet here today but also very warm! x

Oh dear it sound awful for you all....thinking of you.....

sunshine, what a nice word,

it is awful Pam, just wish it would stop now but its pouring down,

Many thanks for checking in after us Yorkshire... despite having your own to worry about. It has rained all day here, but no floods, I went out to have a look around the garden this morning..I got drenched for just going from the house to the bottom of the garden :( By the way after all that the 'sun' has just come out to play - now 16.26 pm..too late can't to a thing out there now.:(

dreadful is'nt it Michaella

so sorry you have had damage with floods yorkshire and your lovely garden spoiled, hope your house is ok though, i really feel for people who have to endure more house floods after just cleaning up the last lot :o(((

house is fine San, garden ruined, never mind, keeping my chin up slightly, just going to watch the local news to see what damage has been done, take care,

Hi Yorkshire, sorry not comiserated earlier, been at the market (waste of a day that was). Am feeling just same as you. Last night we had about a months rain in 10 mins. I have NEVER seen anything like it. it makes my rainy day pics, look like a spring shower. My roses too are either flattened, or every single bloom has been removed, throught the sheer ferocity of the rain. Most of my other plants have a soggy rotting mess around them. I can't even get out to clean them up. When I went to work, I had geraniums, they've just gone (slugs)?I feel so fed up, as my garden is my pride and joy. Not least when I think what I spent this year on plants. In the interests of not feeling guilty, I stopped counting at about £250, what a waste of money, particularly as like most people, it is so scarce. Anyway, there's no point wittering about it, it won't reverse the weather.
Oh just a thought, I do hope Ralphie has something longer (and dryer) than shorts on now! Jxx

Last seen surfing on his wobble board singing waltzing matilda..... :0)

I,ve just been hearing on the news how bad it is......stay safe everyone.......
a bit of sun (I do hope soon) will dry it out and plants are usually wanting to survive so fingers crossed X x X

Sorry to hear of all having rotten weather. Don't you just wish we could all go to bed tonight and wake up next spring!!!
They should never have called that hosepipe ban!!!!!

Sorry to hear about your floods and bad weather.
We had rain this afternoon and evening, but it's just ordinary rain.
I hope it improves soon for you.

My brother lives in Cayton nr Scarborough, apparently the lifeboat people have had to evacuate some people from the caravan park, I`ve just been reading about it as we have different news, I think some of them might have been disabled, how scary that must have been for them...

Oh, Lord that would have been awful :-(

Aw Yorks so sorry to hear you've been hit so badly and all your hard work damaged x agree with the others, as long as house ok run away for a few days to escape the madness xxxxx hope all reading are safe x take care all xxxx

Oh Val Im so sorry you are bearing the brunt of the weather, thought it was bad here, but at least we haven't had floods, but lots of plants just flattened to the ground and others water logged and damaged, the rain stopped for a brief spell around 6 pm and I manged to get out and tie up afew things in a temp fashion, especially my Sweet Peas which are just starting to flower and my Foxgloves wihpch are completely battered, but others around the country are completly flooded. Just hope it improves for Sunday our Simon and Clare are doing a Charity Bike Ride from Manchester to Blackpool !!

All keep safe! No rain as yet up here jsut really high winds..

It seemed to miss Galloway completly we just got light rain and no wind...... Seems all up the eastern side.

I hope everyone has a better day and starts to dry out xxx

Its up here now!

Commiseration to those in the West Country too - they got 3 inches overnight last night...

Hope everything gets ok for you soon.We are ok at moment been checking drains dont get blocked all the time.Hope you dont have too much damage.xx

thanks everyone, seems we all got hit by the rain, we have just re potted two Hucheras that got hit badly but thank goodness the look much better now, we have been out all morning trying to get some order back, patio needs a lot of attention, not only green but mud, power washer time yet again, its so good to see the sun shining today, my neighbour came over at 9 this morning and just stood with her mouth open when she saw the state of the roses, we are going to have to cut the lot back now, never mind at least we are fine, we saw our village on the news last night, it was flooded, hope the shops are o.k. take care all, and once again thanks,

So nice to read your kind words and good wishes. In our part of Devon we have had a lot of rain overnight but no serious flooding. At least it is quite warm.......I am clutching at straws here!!!!!!

so pleased you have not had serious flooding, our village was on the news last night, under water, we have been trying to have a clean up, lucky enough it was the back garden that took the worse of it, front looks quite good, weather has been nice today, take care.

The storms we're having just seem so bad at the moment, last wee in the midlands we had flooding and huge hailstones, now a week later a bit further north you've suffered and now the southwest......should be an interesting Olympic Games.....

I now realise just how bad it has been for so many of you. It is hard to know where to start sorting it all out. Let's hope that the weather will be kind to you so that everyone can try to get things back to normal.

Sorry you have had such a bad time up there Val I hope it is looking better by now and you haven't lost too many plants, we have had loads of rain too but being on the side of a mountain no floods thankfully. I hope we all dry out soon and have a prolonged period of sunshine which is long overdue :o)

Pam I do hope the weather has dried up for you now, its a pain,Wildrose hope its not raining on you and Neelan glad you have had no floods, we had sunshine yesterday and a lovely morning today, just had rain again for about an hour but sun coming out again, take care all. x