Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Dont like the sound of that. Is it a new goth band ? 

Should be! Did you read about the American pacifist nun who along with a couple of other elderly people broke into a nuclear facility? The report I read described her as "The Nuclear Nun" - now that's a band name 

[Wessexy Witch]

Dont like the sound of that. Is it a new goth band ? 

Should be! Did you read about the American pacifist nun who along with a couple of other elderly people broke into a nuclear facility? The report I read described her as "The Nuclear Nun" - now that's a band name 

I think I've go albums by both of those bands !!
 
 
 

[Heno]

Yep, it's a nightmare. I have family near Brisbane and they pretty much stay inside with the air conditioner, or swim in the pool. I'm from much further south, and we were lucky with the weather as it'd been 40 deg the previous week!

yeah. house to car to shopping mall. all aircon.

the place that got me most for summer heat was Geneva. but since half the shops sell chocolate we would run in there for a while to cool down

[Rusco]

Anna, that sounds bad.

May I ask are you working or something in a gardening career or do some ecological investigation?

Maybe Sudden Oak Death are touring with the grind band Ash Trees at the Sweet Chestnut! I saw them at Pests & Panthogens festival! 

[Heno]

man, I saw anthrax once

worst experience of my life

[Heno]

so i'm back on the auld sod and none the better for it. rain, wind, cold. nothing new there.

flight back was a little bumpy. didn't sleep. 24 hours on the road again.

[Rusco]

flight back was a little bumpy. didn't sleep. 24 hours on the road again.

You`re in Australia, right? I guess the distances are, eh somewhat long there? 

I used to know an Australian couple who lived in Finland long time ago, before they moved back there.
I think they live now near to Wollongong or Melbourne.

[Heno]

I was in South Africa returning to Ireland via Abu Dhabi

I've been to Brisbane a couple of times

[Rusco]

Ok, Ireland... Maybe I just remembered that Brisbane thing. Cheers.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Anna, that sounds bad.

May I ask are you working or something in a gardening career or do some ecological investigation?

Maybe Sudden Oak Death are touring with the grind band Ash Trees at the Sweet Chestnut! I saw them at Pests & Panthogens festival! 

The bad probably comes from the cumulative effects and the vulnerability of species to new/adapted pathogens & pests.

Yes - I'm a Commercial Landscape Manager

Nice festival 

x

[Shush]

Anna, that sounds bad.

May I ask are you working or something in a gardening career or do some ecological investigation?

Maybe Sudden Oak Death are touring with the grind band Ash Trees at the Sweet Chestnut! I saw them at Pests & Panthogens festival! 

The bad probably comes from the cumulative effects and the vulnerability of species to new/adapted pathogens & pests.

Yes - I'm a Commercial Landscape Manager

Nice festival 

x

This explains your skills in "growing your own" 

[Heno]

picked up here a little after a terrible night


in other news, i got back from south africa on monday. been working flat out since for corporate investment. our son luke was 18 on wednesday. he went to london for three days yesterday. i was on my way back from dropping him off to the airport and passed an ambulance on the way back. found out my aged Da was in the back heading to hospital with acute pneumonia. i worked until 2am this morning and was back up at half six for critical investor presentations. finish at 6pm and then head up to hospital. my bird is hardly talking to me.

i could actually add my own personal verse to 225

and i swear, we never asked for any of this

and if anyone says that new model army don't talk to you then they should have their head examined

[sozbot]

flight back was a little bumpy. didn't sleep. 24 hours on the road again.

You`re in Australia, right? I guess the distances are, eh somewhat long there? 

I used to know an Australian couple who lived in Finland long time ago, before they moved back there.
I think they live now near to Wollongong or Melbourne.

As an Aussie expat, I can confirm that not only does it take a bloody long time to get there from this side of the world, it takes a bloody long time to get anywhere within Australia. My family are in the ACT and I lived in Perth for a little while, and it was a six hour flight to get home. Needless to say, I didn't get home very often. 

Australia's a nice place, but there are limits.

[Heno]

i agree, its stunning


house of cards us

unreal

[Rusco]

Actually now the weather`s been quite nice last week. Only -1 celsius and sun shining. It hasn´t rained at all. That's what I like with spring when there`s much more light and nature wakes up very slowly. Birds get active and start to build their nests. Humidity is not so high, just enough for the plants to grow up.

As I recently told here about minus degrees and what kind of winter we should have here, there`s an interesting point with a "normal" winter, that the air humidity is very low when temperature drops to minus. Air is dry if there`s -20 celsius and snow. It`s not the snow you could mould in your hands.

I`ll check if I can find some winter video to you here...

Ok, this youtube video was filmed in Nilsiä in 2011. It`s not the area where we live but 600km:s to north.
Winter is normally similar around here in south coastal areas too. (My roots are actually from Nilsiä from my father`s side...)