Shepherd's Warning!

Brilliant sun rise . we have a frost warning for tonight.

Lovely sunrise Moongrower, we have had some fabulous sunsets down here recently.

Beautiful photos, Mg - but oh dear - more rain! The wind dropped here this morning - but it's back now. I don't like battling against it, but I must get my lily bulbs in! I shall be well-wrapped up!

No frost warnings here, as yet. :-)

OOOoooooo well caught MG the second pic is my fav :)

I agree with Jac... second pic. especially good. :o)

Thanks all I nipped out and in pretty quickly as I was in my jammies :-)

What... no pic. of the jammies ? Lol.

Hi MG...gorgeous pics.....well snapped.....we too had a cracker of a sunrise but it was VERY short-lived.....no chance to get out there with the camera......and by noon as predicted it was RAINING!!!! Still wild wet and windy ...but not so heavy now...TG

Nice avatar pic. Alz. :o)

Brill photos and blog...

Beautiful pics Mg,it is amazing how quick you have to be too :))

Very quick Aster, within minutes it had faded.

Well caught Mg...gorgeous...

Ooh, scary - looks like an upside down erupting volcano with molten lava...

Now who's got a weird mind Bamboo... lol

Beautiful pictures MG. Think you'd rather have Shepherd's Delight up there at the moment :-)

What lovely photos third ones my favorite.

There was no shepherd's delight today Sue it was raining... again - sigh!

Ditto in Aberdeen and area....rain ..rain and more of the sodden stuff!!

Oh Alz !! How's that affecting the clean up etc ??

Beautiful photos :o)
To me the dawn is the best time of day.

fantastic pics mg. yes raining here again this pm too. :o(

Great pics MG. Thought I was the only one mad enough to be out in the garden in my jamas LOL.
I didn't have the luxury of a beautiful sky this morning, just non-stop rain !

Rust and rot setting in fast Sue!! The skips arrived this morning and ten of them were filled by lunchtime and another lot set down for filling by tonight I believe. It is a heart-break seeing all the furniture and belongings being thrown out ...but there is no way anything can be salvaged.
There are some dreadful people around....house agents encouraging folk to charge extortionate rentals for people made homeless by this crisis...and what can they do but pay up...albeit many of them via their insurance. Humanity - even at a time like this is in short supply it would seem.

I really can't answer on here Alz !! Makes my blood boil !

Arggg Alz. Humanity is obviously sadly lacking!

Yup...you are both so right. Everybody is trying SO hard to help and really the neighborlyness has been great .....then you hear of sharks like that.....grrr!

Unbelievable how fast the vultures appear, isnt it??
Lovely pics, Mrs Moonbulb! Turner would be ecstatic!!

Gorgeous photos MoonG...and thank you for going out in your jimjams for our benefit! The sky was fantastic over Dyce ( just outside Aberdeen ) this morning too, but I hadn't taken my camera to work so that was that! And then...yes...it rained!

You know what they say about the vulture-culture...'If the world catches a cold, there'll be someone out there making money out of handkerchieves'! It's sad but true, unfortunately. I bet the bin-divers have been going through the skips as well, heartless s@ds.

Clear frosty morning here today, Mr MB and I hope to get out and do some walking around. Thank you all for your kind comments... there will be no pix. of me in my jammies!

Don't recommend it either MG.....B#####Y freezing down here this morning.....only 6C in the sitootery and zero in the greenhouse.....eeek....been too busy to dig out the Frostguard heaters!
Definitely time to dig out the thermals and the hand-warmers!!!!

Ah but I love these still frosty days cold or no and perhaps they'll kill off some of the bugs!

Hopefully....and slow down some of the flaming grass growth too...just had to get the lawns cut AGAIN!! Luckily my chum has a mower that can then go round the paths and do a leaf hoover job....what a difference that makes!

lovely sky pics MG, just constant rain here, :o(

Glorious frosty sunny day... though getting cold again now. Supposed to be like this for a few days so fingers crossed!

Frozen fingers at that....LOL

send some here MG, i need to start work on the far end of the garden :o(

Remember we have had rain on and off for weeks Sandra... just enjoying the good days whilst I can :-) But hope you get some sun tomorrow too.

thanx MG im having withdrawl syptoms lol

Lovely pics MG

Thx. Heron - watch out for the blog from our walk today all!

It's been lovely here, too...NO RAIN! Frost is good, frost is nice....frost is DRY!!!
;-)
xxx

Looking forward to it MG!!!

My water-butt is an ice-butt today!!!

Ours too - lol

My geraniums have finally succumbed too! :~(

Ah we don't have any but Mr MB yanked the Cyclamen persicum in their trough in last night... Supposed to stay dry and frosty tonight.

It was getting frosty at 4 today!! Even Smudge doesnt want to go out! :~))
David tells me that geranuims make great plant food & just to dig them in!! I'll retrieve the sweet pea pods from amongst them first, I think!

no frost yet here, just damp and wet

Yup same with us MP frost started around 4pm. When we went walking this morning at 10:15 it was still 0 according to the car... and I believe it! Be patient next blog WILL appear :-)

I shall await it eagerly! :~))

MG is your frost growing on top of frost its just never lifted.

So glad I opened tap on water but and let water run out.

Where the sun doesn't get to in the garden it is staying frosty all the time. But the roof of the potting shed is in full sun for part of the day and thaws completely. The birds are going crazy on the feeders.

Gorgeous day here too...but flamin' freezin' even here down near the sea. It is still at zero in the back yard and something a lot less up country when I walked the dogs earlier. It will slow down the water run off though and that is welcome right now. Happily the wee rivers are back to being wee rivers...so flooding no longer a risk.....plenty mopping up still being done and some poor souls are STILL waiting for insurance assessors to come...eeek!

I thought it was -6 last night Mr MB just told me it was actually -7. This is definitely early for us... three nights of frost on the trot.

Alz. sorry to hear some folk are still waiting for their properties to be assessed I guess there were a lot of claims.

A few hundred I believe MG but some Ins. Cos.were just smarter off the mark than others. The town community are now rallying and all those with any old but usable furniture and bedding are gifting them to a central hall for those affected to have FOC ...obviously!!
I spoke to one chap this morning who went to buy a sofa bed. as he had lost all his furniture...and not one furniture shop could guarantee he could have one before XMAS!! He asked to buy the one in the shop on display to be told "Oh no,Sir we can't sell you that one...people have been lying on it" DOH...it's a BED!!!

The mentality of some people is unbelievable...

That's totally crazy! Dont they realise that people NEED furniture right now??

In Forres we have Moray Waste Busters who have good quality second hand furniture for folk to buy at low prices. Or perhaps the Salvation Army or one of the other charities could help out short term with furniture. I agree it is absurd that folk want to buy stuff and are told no guarantee of delivery before Christmas! Only other alternative I can think of is to try a individual local shop rather than one of the chains, I know the furniture shop in Forres has goods in stock not just to order.

The trouble is we don't have any furniture shops any more!! We lost both of our family owned ones when my chum gave up hers some years ago....she couldn't find anybody interested to take it on as an emporium. It had been in her family for almost 100 years I think..and is very much missed.
All the people affected have had to go to Aberdeen where there are places that can sell you second hand furniture that has been handed in. But trying to get new/ replacements for Insurance purposes is obviously a non-starter - at least in the immediate future! What a world we live in.
Another friend that dropped in for coffee this morning had travelled down from Skye to see the assessors that were meeting her. ..at her house that she rents out. When she got to her house - she found that the salvage boys had set the dehumidifiers all going full blast....but hadn't bothered to check if the basements had been pumped out first ....which they hadn't...and they were about 3 feet deep in water etc !!! How crazy was that !! The walls and windows were pouring with condensation - of course - and the machines were getting nowhere...obviously. Workmen...honestly - I despair.

Unbelievable!! The words up & brewery come to mind!!

Hmm, buying furniture for immediate use is a bit like trying to buy gloves in January - you won't find any anywhere.

I like you logic B....very apt!!
There was plenty ON SHOW...but "Oh no Sir....we can't sell you THAT bed/wardrobe/ table/chair etc....they are just for show" EEEEEK!

And yes MP...quite right!!

:~))

grate photoes, now I realy do not want to be a spoil sport but wasent it from the days of sailing ships and wasent it about the wind, and wasent it sailors rather than shepards, run the guns out lads, I feal an mg coming' lol

I was always taught the say as 'Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning shepherd's warning' As the shepherd was out in all weathers - I'm sure it is used with a lot of different 'job' titles. :-)

as we Welsh say it's not the sheeps that graze on the mountin ,it's the sheeps that sail on the sea

I believe that this saying is used by both sailors AND shepherds and originates from the Bible ..... Matthew xvi.2 ..."When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and louring."
Whatever - it sure seem to work as it apparently has a basis in science. It relates to the suns' rays passing through moisture laden or dust laden particles in the atmosphere!!

However - we had another (reputedly Scottish!!) saying which amused......." If you can see the top of the mountains clearly - it is going to rain .....and if you can't see the top of the mountain clearly - it is raining anyway!"

I love that one Alz. and it is usually true!

LOL! My dad just says stick your head out the window & see if you get wet!

Well he sure would right now ..it is 'issing down here right now!

Here too! Battering off the windows!

And here in London - seems to be everywhere, more or less. Definitely horizontal rain here, and I know that wind is going to keep me awake tonight. Worse to come tomorrow apparently...

According to the Met. site - we are supposed to be clear by dog-walking time tomorrow morning....I'll believe it when I see it!

Lucky you - the forecast map for the South made it look like I might need a boat to get out tomorrow!

I just checked it, & we're the lucky ones tomorrow, but 31 mph winds on Saturday!! :~((
Glad I'm not working!

No rain as yet...