How's your summer?

[Greyman 25,334]

To much wind has restricted my boat movements a bit this year but always something else to keep me busy, the one thing I do hate is you never have the right cloths on for a whole day, at least come winter you can get dressed accordingly and not have to keep adding and removing layers, I do have my log store full already and am about to fit a new carb to the old chainsaw in readiness for what I.m hoping will be a proper cold winter 

Edited August 20, 2023 by Greyman

[Daniel cain 42,909]

Only good thing about all this wind and rain imo...is it's kept the rivers topped up,and stopped the algae blooms building up and suffocating the fish loads of nuts/berries on the trees around here,best yr for rabbits in as long as i can remember , hopefully still a few to go at when the season starts..

[Greyman 25,334]

Same here mate both bunny’s and berry’s could have bagged quite a few with the catty lately but like to let them be for a while     to reproduce some more 

[Jonjon79 13,344]

A bit of a mixed bag here - I keep getting rained on when I'm out working on warm nights. I don't mind - it is what it is.

 

The crab apples and conkers seem to be early.

 

I'm seeing the days get shorter - hopefully we'll have a good Indian summer

[jigsaw 11,809]

 

[jigsaw 11,809]

That was our weekend,had 3 weeks of sun in July ,

[gnasher16 29,671]

Apart from getting absolutely mullered by mosquitos we had a smashing few months hopping about the Greek Islands....and now back here its complete misery again.....4 days of sunshine ive counted so far,it seems like every year theres less and less reason to stay in this gaff.

[dytkos 17,536]

Good summer here, plenty of sun and rain (not always in the right order) farmers done/due for 4 cuts of grass, pity dog's nowhere near fit  

Cheers, D.

[mackem 23,851]

It’s going to be a scorcher today.

 

[Greyman 25,334]

Today is the last day of summer officially but feels like it ended in July, can’t believe the fires back on already

[paulus 26]

Sloes are out already here. 

[Greyman 25,334]

6 minutes ago, paulus said:

Sloes are out already here. 

Been looking but seen very few so far need a kilo for 4 litres of gin but looks like I,ll struggle to fill a shot glass 

[Daniel cain 42,909]

9 minutes ago, paulus said:

Sloes are out already here. 

Seen aload last weekend walking around the Gower Peninsula

[Whispering Whiskey 66 1,068]

1 hour ago, paulus said:

Sloes are out already here. 

Over the Wirral yesterday there ready in the thousands, I couldn’t pick enough, Ave still got 16 litres of sloe gin left from last year what I still have not bottled up yet, might get some ready the weekend.

[jukel123 6,570]

On 21/08/2023 at 11:34, gnasher16 said:

Apart from getting absolutely mullered by mosquitos we had a smashing few months hopping about the Greek Islands....and now back here its complete misery again.....4 days of sunshine ive counted so far,it seems like every year theres less and less reason to stay in this gaff.

Which greek islands do you recommend? I've been to the main ones, but I fancy an island less touristy. Is it possible to get an island with a way of life like Greece was years ago?