Re: The Weather Thread Part 2.

[Fangirl Three]

It's a lovely sunny day.

[Nightjar]

It's too hot.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

23 degrees. It's madness.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Dropping to just 8 degrees overnight.

[Helium]

The thermometer in my back garden was about 36 degrees celsius Done my fig trees a treat but worried it might have caused some damage to the lillies

[Helium]

Great replies packed with info there.

I've always said that being so close to the park, as well as having formal residents gardens, and a private terrace of my own means I have it better than people in houses - no grass cutting necessary. But lately I've been thinking about the wonders of a beautiful private garden, perhaps with features I could never have in town - a pool, different levels, lots of different flowers in bloom year round.

Well you don't need to have a massive garden to achieve something great. No need to go all the way out to Pinner anyway as some of the best gardens I've seen have been restricted inner city stuff. I've got 3 gardens but the biggest barely pinches 50 sq-m and I've gotten a lot out of it.

Did you see that garden in Islington on gardeners world? barely 30sq m and about 4-5 metres long and it looks like this:

The only suburbs I like are Hampstead and Richmond. There are a couple of others I don't mind but they quickly slide into the category you flag as a red one. Sean lives in Ruislip and suggested Pinner or Northwood as areas I might like to set up a family home with him in. He was quickly disabused of the notion. It's a very hard no to the whole of Middlesex. I'd be house hunting in Croydon before choosing that fate.

That far out? You might as well move out to the Chilterns or Cotswolds. Your country cottage awaits CT...



Randomly: When Londoners refer to Middlesex what do people typically mean? The bits of north London that didn't become London until the 1960s? Or just the postal code? Or something else? Even though it's likely not that complicated, as a non-Londoner it's all a bit :

I do like Chiswick and Bedford Park. Is that Middlesex? It's one of the very first bits of London you see coming off the M4 and makes you very much feel like you've arrived, and builds up the excitement as you get into central London. Ealing also seemed nice just from passing through in the past but seems to be at the butt of a lot of jokes for some reason? Is it really that bad?

[cosmictanya]

It's been glorious again. I hope this lasts all summer. Living with all the windows open is my preferred state.

I hadn't seen that, but lovely as it is, it's no bigger than my terrace. No scope for a pool, different levels, a dining deck, a greenhouse, trees, a secret garden containing all white flowers, etc.

I use it to refer to all of North and West Greater London without a London postcode. I'd say a broad sweep between Edgware and Heathrow or thereabouts. A world with its own rhythms, standards, look, and customs - should probably become a single large borough. Nightjar can either back me up or not on this, he might use it differently.

I don't know why Ealing is so often knocked, some of it is very nice and very expensive. I guess people lump it in with Southall and Northolt, and all the huge industrial estates. Maybe the name itself - it's not a pretty name. Or the term 'Ealing comedies' makes it sound like a joke?

I like Bedford Park and some of Chiswick too, but it's getting on for Middlesex, although it isn't Middlesex. W4 is London.

[cosmictanya]

That sounds absolutely dreadful as experiences go.

This is much better - a vast garden to have enormous fun with, a utility room to be converted to serve as his daughters bedroom, two other bedrooms, and a master with potential to redo the adjoining cupboards as a steam room/en suite, and decently sized dressing room.

I like the dining room which isn't a currently a dining room (I'm presuming it's the one with the guitars), with attractive door to the outside. The master bedroom could also take a French window straight into the garden. Imagine how gorgeous the garden could be...

https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/53319125?search_identifier=ee9b4602bdeac74c9d05dcddc1ff7f66

I haven't been so excited about a potential life step in years. Perhaps ever. Looking back they've all either been taken with a heavy heart, or rushed into with reckless abandon.

The recent weather is helping a lot. If it was like this nearly all year round, with a couple of months above 35c without humidity, and reliably roasting as opposed to merely pleasant, and the month between my birthday and Christmas all crisply frosty and sleepily snowy I'd be in ecstasy. Rain in the middle of the night only, for the benefit of plants.

[cosmictanya]

I meant to say to Helium in response, I like the Chilterns and the Cotswolds. Along with parts of West Sussex and the Shere/Gomshall area in Surrey, they are my favourite rural regions in the country.

On Ealing, there may be a darker reason why 'people' disparage it despite significant parts of it being lovely. It is, and has long been, very visibly Asian - and that's before it fades into Southall.

[Fangirl Three]

The recent weather is helping a lot. If it was like this nearly all year round, with a couple of months above 35c without humidity, and reliably roasting as opposed to merely pleasant, and the month between my birthday and Christmas all crisply frosty and sleepily snowy I'd be in ecstasy. Rain in the middle of the night only, for the benefit of plants.

I myself would order at least one rainy Saturday or Sunday per month, so I'd have an excuse not to go out, and could stay indoors feeling cosy.

[cosmictanya]

I'm with you on the pleasures of a rainy Saturday afternoon - that can be a very nice accompaniment to a good film/nap. But I can't abide Sunday rain under any circumstances, so we'd have to compromise before submitting our request to the weather God.

[Fangirl Three]

I'm happy with Saturday afternoon, as I usually go into town on Saturday morning, and like nothing more than to get that done and then be excused from doing the gardening by rainfall.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It's raining.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

But feels very stuffy.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Currently 17 degrees.

[Fangirl Three]

Looks like it might rain.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Cold, wet and miserable.

[Guest]

Suns come out.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Hailstones!

Gales!

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It's like the Apocalypse out there!

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