I've just seen one which says next week we will still be in the clutches of WINTER...but has anyone seen when this could end I need some divine inspiration that spring is about to be sprung..anyone
We actually have mud in our top paddock, and after it rained yesterday it squelched when you walked on it. Never seen any there before. Is only the top half inch of so that is mud, most unusual as it's so well drained normally being gravel under the thin layer of topsoil.
In Derbyshire up early for a day with The Four Shires at Chatsworth house. Just looked out of the window and it's hoofing it down with yet more snow. Looks like I'm going nowhere. Bloody white stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm gutted too seeing as I had a rubbish day yesterday getting prepared as my big lad who I was meant to be taking injured his eye so had to have another expensive vet visit then I had to beg/bribe farrier to come out and put lost shoe back on other horse and now this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am making myself laugh though as I keep wondering if it will still be on. I mean I won't be able to get off our drive here in Derby so just imagine what it will be like in the peaks!
I have seen a daffodil and the bluebells are starting to shoot in the woods. Thats all I have to go on that spring is on its way. Every forecast I look at is shocking!
Did see some lambs out on the way to the yard yesterday, it was brilliant sunshine at the time thought it LOOKED a little more like spring, but they are all tucked up in the barn today with this blinking white stuff pouring out of the sky.........
I hacked out yesterday afternoon after the ice had melted and it felt a bit like spring, the sun actually had a bit of warmth in it.
Then this morning I wake to snow coming down in buckets and about 3 inches on the ground - no riding today then!
I don't believe in long range weather forecast as they only go on what statistically is likely to happen which is predicted by computer models.
The weather can only really be forecast about 5 days in advance and even that isn't everso accurate!
I thought spring had sprung a couple of weeks ago when I found frog spawn in one of the "ponds" in my field. Ponds is in inverted commas as it's a euphemism for floods! My field is under water, the nags have been on hay since last September (when - ha - it was so dry the grass didn't grow) and there's no end in sight. I've just had a look at the Met Office site for London and South-East England and they have a severe weather warning out for very heavy rain, up to 40mm tomorrow and Tuesday . . . . oh goody