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The autumn equinox fell on Wednesday, 23 September this year. The equinox varies, year to year, from 22 to 23 September usually. Though, very occasionally it can be on 21 and 24. The next time it will fall on 21 September is 2092. It will not occur on 24 September until 2303! The variance is because our year, the time …
We had 5 mm of rain in the early morning, bringing September’s total so far to 39 mm, well above average, although 26mm of that was delivered on Tuesday. It is catch up time, and do we need it. The drought may be over but there is a big deficit, illustrated by our pond. I have been monitoring our rain …
We have had two eclipses recently, the solar, and on Friday the lunar eclipse. Both partial, but up in the 90 per cents. The solar eclipse we watched from the garden. That was at a respectable hour, around 7 pm, but the lunar eclipse was at 4 am, with unlikely many takers at that hour. My daughter and I got …
We had a couple of millimetres of rain last week, but that soon evaporated in the heat. The last decent downpour was on 27 June. There is a hosepipe ban, but one cannot complain, reservoirs are low, rivers low. Farmers are suffering, their crops have awful yields, some they have given up on. It’s no good looking to Europe, the …
We have had no rain since 27 June. That’s 35 dry days. We are in a drought, as evidenced by our flagging plants. Lack of rain has been made worse by the hot weather where much of our watering evaporates before plants can use it. There’s a hosepipe ban, but at least we have our tap, and how necessary it …
In the wildflower bed are lots of marigolds which need dead heading to keep flowering. There’s wild carrot too. I am fascinated how when the flower head goes to seed, it folds and becomes like a bird’s nest. There’s corn marigolds, California poppies, white campion and nipple wort. The latter is in the dandelion family which has so many similar …
We had a visit from Douglas Leroy from OurBike, a community e-bike company. To discuss whether we would want to be a host for a cargo bike. A cargo bike is one of those bikes with a big bucket in front that can carry cargo, this one up to 100 kg of goods or people. We sometimes see them around …
Cop30 is in Belem, Brazil, running for two weeks, starting on Monday. It’s the latest climate change summit. Trump won’t be there as he says climate change is the biggest scam ever. One wonders whether he actually believes that all the climate scientists across the world are in a conspiracy to fool the rest of us. My belief is that …
The apple tree, given to us by the Irish pensioners, is in bloom. Quite shockingly so, as April is the month for apple blossom. This is five months on. Though, September is very like April in terms of temperatures and day-length. It seems the tree has picked up on these signals, perhaps enhanced by the dryness back in April. It …
So little rain this month. All our rain barrels are empty. Our sole source of water is our tap on the standpipe. I have been keeping track of rainfall with our rain gauge, hardly arduous this month. Throughout August, we have had 4mm of rain, while the average rainfall in London for August is 48mm. This is drought. Farmers are …
