It’s not very often we get snow here on the North Wales coast, it’s due to the fact that we are so close to the see that it only makes it to the hills behind us, but, yesterday we had a barrage of snow coming down and we were all bought to standstill. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to slap on the sun lotion as soon as you can if your living or visiting our little island this week as we prepare for a heatwave to hit the country.

It’s been forecasted that this week could break all the records over the years with temperatures hitting 30°C (86°F) in the middle of the week, which would make it the hottest spell for years!

But despite all this the forecasters have also said that this will not be a solid wall of sunshine as it will be broken up by the odd thundery downpours, it will also feel humid and the pollen counts will rise, which is just what us hay fever sufferers need!

The Bookmakers Ladbrokes is offering odds of 8/1 that Wales beats its top temperature of 35.2C, and 17/2 that Scotland tops 32.9C or Northern Ireland exceeds 30.8C.

Ladbrokes have also set 13/2 that the  top temperature midweek will hit 32°C (91.4°F).

I know that our back garden here in North Wales has hit 29.4°C (84.9°F) which has felt a little cooler by a nice coastal breeze, but it’s still hot and it’s lovely, but have we got this hot spell for a short time, will it disappear next week and return to rain, rain and more rain. We will se but I’m personally hoping for a good run of warm weather, yes the odd shower would be nice to cool everything down at night, but the warm spell would perfect for BBQs and garden lounging

Those of you who have been following my Tweets lately will of noticed that I have made several over the last few days about the weather and how gorgeous it has been.

And for that haven’t been following my tweets, why not!…. 

Anyway over the last few days here on the lovely North Wales coast we have had some absolutely gorgeous weather, on Wednesday our back garden hit around 28°c (82.4°f) and yesterday we hit around 30°c (86°f) in the back garden and the conservatory was even hotter, with the hottest been an unbearable 39°c (102.2°f). Who needs to go on holiday when the weather is this good

Thursday night was great later as we had an amazing BBQ, yes another one, and a quantity of chilled wine to wash the burgers, sausages, kebabs etc down, now I’m just hoping that the weekend has the same sort of weather, a few showers thrown in for a few minutes would be great to chill everywhere down.

So here’s to possibly and hopefully the best summer in years PARTAY!!!!!

Hi everyone, back again with another Saturday Six, this weeks topic is Lazy Summer Days, so lets get on with it.

1. What is your ideal past time on a Lazy Summers Day?
2. Do you enjoy BBQs?
3. Sun bathing or lazing in a pool?
4. Chilled glass of wine or chilled pop/juice?
5. If it’s too hot do you try to tan like a lobster or go inside?
6. Do you worry about the risk of cancer when binge sunbathing?

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Unusually for a Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK we have had a gorgeous day, the weather has behaved itself very well and we peaked at 24°c in the back garden, awesome.

It’s been a day of doing nothing and been able to have dinner in the garden with a nice chilled glass if wine is the perfect end to a perfect day.

I’m just hoping that tomorrow will bless us with another gorgeous day here on the North Wales coast, so here’s hoping

This morning we had a letter from the local council with regards to “Notice of Application for Planning Permission”

My first thought was “I wonder which one of our neighbours is planning to build now!”, but after further reading of the letter it turns out to be planning permission to the council from the council on operating collection of food waste and bulking!

So it seems that we will be getting the council giving us little bins or something similar for us to recycle our food waste, now no longer will we be throwing food in the normal bin, but now into a recycle bin.

That means we will have the normal wheelie bin, a bin for glass and tin, a bag for paper and a bin for waste food! You may of noticed no bin for plastics, no, in the councils wisdom, food waste is more important than recycling plastic, yeah right!

Berries…