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April Showers?

andrew — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:22:01 +0000

It is now well into June and there are still things from April that I haven’t posted about. April was a month of amazing weather and we spent a lot of time outside enjoying the sunshine. According to the Met Office, it was the third warmest April on record since 1914.

The hammock came out of storage and was strung between the climbing frame.

Dandelion season is over now, but we did our share of seed dispersal.

The great swathes of yellow rapeseed were the most spectacular feature of the landscape during April. I had trouble capturing the brilliance of the colours and it’s effect on the landscape with the camera, but we did find a footpath through a field, returning home covered in a dust of yellow pollen.

The flowers are almost entirely past now and the seed pods have started to swell. The wheat grains are starting to ripen now, too. It is a beautiful landscape here.

Rainbows

andrew — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:50:22 +0000

We saw more rainbows during the few days that we were in Scotland than I’ve seen in ages elsewhere. I guess the continually changing British weather has some advantages! Here are some of the more spectacular ones:

Our friend, Gudrun, has also been visiting Scotland recently and took another amazing rainbow photograph.

Chuckin’ it down!

andrew — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:55:39 +0000

It’s been raining quite a bite here recently. As the kids are fond of saying, it’s been chucking it down! The River Trent has overflowed its banks and the fields, as well the road we normally take to get to the school, are covered in water.

This reminds me of another interesting linguistic tidbit. Sage brought home a worksheet last spring about homophones. Interestingly, it included “fort” and “fought” and “court” and “caught”. I had to think about this one for a while.

There’s a bit of a blue patch in the sky this morning and the water in the fields next to the Swarkestone causeway seems to have receded somewhat. We’re hoping things dry out a bit. The two resident amateur meteorologists have been recording daily rainfall for a couple of weeks now, so I expect you might see some kind of weather summary appearing soon.