Vocal Voices

by **Workingman** » 24 Jul 2018, 08:07

I have been in some hot places, so the heat is not my main gripe, it is the humidity and the lack of any breeze (air).

I gave up during the night because I could not sleep. The weather clock said 23.4ºC with a humidity of 79%.

It is cloudy now and very still. :cry:

by **Kaz** » 24 Jul 2018, 08:08

Exactly, Frank

by **meriad** » 24 Jul 2018, 08:37

I for one am loving this - but then having grown up in Durban, SA the humidity is quite OK for me

Thankfully we don't have a hosepipe ban (yet) so I'm still watering the pots and the stuff in the greenhouse by hose; but the lawn really could do with some water as well - it's like dry hay! But that will quickly recover once we have rain again so it'll just have to stay as is.

But... I do really hope that everyone of you that has a garden has a good few water bowls out for the wildlife - not just one. Ideally shallow ones so everyone can get to them without drowning; if need be have some with pebbles. And please refill them every day / evening. Wildlife will be depending on our help and water is the most important thing. I have about 10 various sized bowls all over the place

And it's amazing just how quickly the animals learn that there is water for them

by **miasmum** » 24 Jul 2018, 08:49

Yes I do have bowls out but I am more concerned for my own animals. There is no clover left for the tortoise, no grass for the guinea pig. Toffee dog is just laying panting on the floor.

At work the elderly are suffering and our COPD and respiratory patients are struggling.

Plus its so hot at work, we have no air conditioning. Yesterday I couldn't wear my glasses at work, they kept slipping down my nose with the sweat. Its hotter in our office, which we share with three printers, five computers and the huge great server, than it is outside.

I have completely had enough. I dont want it to change dramatically, just a few degrees cooler, some rain preferably at night and a bit of a breeze. Not too much to ask is it?

by **Kaz** » 24 Jul 2018, 17:53

Nothing comes into our garden Ria! Seriously, Fraggle barks if a bird so much as thinks about landing! :roll:

Doreen has a lovely bird feeding station with shallow water dishes, we watched a pigeon washing its cumin one the other day

by **TheOstrich** » 24 Jul 2018, 18:14

meriad wrote:But... I do really hope that everyone of you that has a garden has a good few water bowls out for the wildlife - not just one. Ideally shallow ones so everyone can get to them without drowning; if need be have some with pebbles. And please refill them every day / evening. Wildlife will be depending on our help and water is the most important thing. I have about 10 various sized bowls all over the place And it's amazing just how quickly the animals learn that there is water for them

We have a stone birdbath right in the middle of the lawn; it's shallow and I have to top it up each evening. The sparrows love it, the wood pigeons wallow (and poo :roll:

) in it, and today (after a prolonged absence from our garden) we caught a pair of green woodpeckers drinking from it. Rather indistinct red caps, so I guess they were this year's hatchlings.

Our lawn is rather strange. We know the previous occupiers sort of kept redesigning it, but for some reason, we seem to have two distinct halves. One is standard grass and looks like a mown hay field. But the other triangular portion is rather amazingly quite lush green in colour, and now with long stalks, and that's without watering. I'm wondering if it's some variety of hardy rye grass ….

by **Weka** » 24 Jul 2018, 21:03

In hot humid weather I wet a sarong and squeeze it out then put it over me to sleep. Works even better if you have a fan blowing gently over you.

I just wish it would stop raining. Feels like we have had rain every day so far this year.

Take care of yourselves and increase your salt intake to avoid muscle cramps.

by **Workingman** » 24 Jul 2018, 21:42

Weka wrote:I just wish it would stop raining.

You send us some of that, and some lamb and we'll send you some... err, tripe and Yorkshire puddings.

Tripe in milk is not so bad if you hold your nose and think or Armageddon. Yorkshire's are delish, well proper ones are - we'll send you some of those.