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Old 28-05-2006, 08:43 AM
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Luvly weather

Here is a response to the last post. The weather is fantastic, drizzly rain with periodic sun showers. All the trees are filling with leaves and the different green tones seen throughout the countryside. The Hawthorn bushes are brimming over with blossom as have all the flowering trees and hedges this year.The wet weather seem's to have stimulated all of them. See the hills and mountains change colour with the seasons, likewise see the whole countryside change. Take my advice, don't think of emigrating to foreign lands away from this wonderful country, I did for near fourty years and I have nightmares when I think of the times I spent trying to watch birds in the Australian outback. A heat haze shimmering and sweat running down into my eyes, the flies hanging all over my face. You try looking through binoculars in those conditions. The drab olive green of the trees and shrubs, and the flatness of the countryside with no mountains. After a day in the bush you get home and in the shower you start picking off the hundred seed ticks that have buried their heads into your flesh.The sandy beaches draw the people in droves, and you see them hopping along the blistering sand, swatting at the persistant flies. Your eyes burn as you try to watch a bird over the sun shimmering waves. The novalty and wonder of the rolling sand-dunes, the harshness of the gibber planes, the forests of Karri trees of the south west where once you enter can soon get you lost without good knowlage of the bush will soon wear off and you will wish again for the green fields of home.
Do you fancy going to New Zealand, I always thought it seconed best to England and in my youth jumped ship there. Although I wasn't there very long my memories of the countryside didn't have the enchantment that the English countryside could offer.
Iv'e come back to my roots and cannot emphasise enough the wonder of the English countryside in all the four seasons and contrary weather.
The rain drizzls down, but the sun will come out soon and I will be out among the flowers and creatures and be thankfull I am here.
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Old 28-05-2006, 08:48 AM
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Re: Luvly weather

You summed it up nicely Tanny

The sun is out here this morning, there's bit of a wind on, but not too much, so I'm off out for a walk in half an our or so, in a small wood I regularly frequent
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Old 28-05-2006, 10:04 AM
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Re: Luvly weather

Indeed it is a perfect day here in Sussex...........to me at least.........sunny but not to hot.........light cloud and a light wind.

I'm off up to the local reservoir...........keep missing Osprey there so maybe today is the day.
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Old 28-05-2006, 11:02 AM
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Re: Luvly weather

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You summed it up nicely Tanny

The sun is out here this morning, there's bit of a wind on, but not too much, so I'm off out for a walk in half an our or so, in a small wood I regularly frequent
Just got back from my walk. I spoke too soon! It started clouding over the minute I left the house! Never mind I still got chance to have a nice walk.

I was last at this wood a couple of weeks ago, and the change was quite striking. The bracken had all but covered the fading bluebells, and the trees were almost in full leaf. Didn't see too much but it was well worth the trip. Re-filled my batteries so to speak
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Old 28-05-2006, 03:05 PM
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Re: Luvly weather

Very well said TT........The grass is at its greenest at the mo, but some people will still think they will find greener grass elsewhere. I love our seasons and spring is my favourite and then we have the warmth of the summer and the colours of the autumn and then the winter, the wet and soggy winter, that cold wet wind that drives its cold right through to your bones, the grey sky that leaves you with SAD, the bare trees and sleet, yuck. How I wish I was in Aus.............Only joking, its good to have a winter, it makes the spring all the more welcome................Jon
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Old 28-05-2006, 03:11 PM
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Re: Luvly weather

Here, here! There's infinite variety in a relatively small area of land.

What really strikes me at present is the enormous range of greens there are out there - just in one eyeline - I reckon you'd have to mix loads of different colours to encompass the variety. And then there's all the different leaf shapes too. Aint nature wonderful.

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Old 28-05-2006, 03:57 PM
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Re: Luvly weather

A couple of years ago I spent a month in Australia. The one thing that most of the folk who I met that had emigrated to Australia years ago missed about England was the weather. Ok, so it's great having fine hot sunny days most of the time, but believe me it can get too much out there. When I arrived home in early May of that year I could not believe how much things had changed in that one month. Give me the good old English weather anyday, you don't realise how good a thing you have got until it isn't there.
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Re: Luvly weather

I agree.
I lived for 2 1/2 yrs in Holland. 2 yrs in Naples and 2 yrs in Malta, was so glad to be back in English climate
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