Ravendale House

I know this site is supposed to be primarily about gardening but, as I may have mentioned, the weather is so rotten, there isn’t much gardening getting done. So I’m trying to find other interesting things to write about.

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The weather is so rubbish at the moment, the second coldest, wettest, dullest June since records began in 1910, (or some equally depressing statistic), that I’ve turned into a plane spotter!
Guess what flew over our garden this afternoon?

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The Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, a place close to my heart, has been in the news over the last few days due to severe flooding. A beautiful area comprising, amongst others, the towns of Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, it is where I spent many happy times back in the 1970’s.

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They say one swallow doesn’t make a summer, the same can also be said about  weather. (Yes, I know. Here I go again.) One week in  March and another at the end of May, which were warm and sunny, doesn’t constitute summer in my book.

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Isn’t it funny where your mind goes when you let it wander? This morning I was lying awake at 4.30am, listening to the birds and wishing on this occasion they wouldn’t sing quite so enthusiastically so I could go back to sleep, when I started thinking about things we’d bought over the years.

So here’s the question. What’s the best thing you’ve ever bought?

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we Brits are rather good at this stuff.

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About a week ago I suddenly realised I couldn’t hear anything, I was surrounded by complete silence. Was I worried? Not at all, as I quickly realised the silence was due to a lack of  starlings.

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I think I’m in danger of becoming a meteorological bore, apart from the odd sojourn into refrigeration, I seem to be obsessed with the weather. I’m even boring myself. Perhaps it’s because we’re not having any weather, or at least none of the right kind.

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Here we go again. Not for the first time I’ve been caught out by early May frosts.

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