Good to hear from you Robert even though the news is not good.
You wrote in a previous report as to how the weather was and the persistent rain that you were getting - and I also follow Marks reports with having an very elderly uncle in Surrey. 
As you say it has been pretty bad over ther and is very sad to read about your vegie garden etc and the lack of vegies and fruit that you are getting.
As you say it has been very bad and the prices in the supermarkets are pretty high too.  I only hope that the weather does improve for you but will not replace what you have lost in this growing season.
How are the frogs going?  In hibernation now I woud imagine.

The hosepipe bans were lifted some time ago, when the water companies concerned, finally realised that it was not just winter rain that filled the ground water supplies. They now have a problem of too much, so will no doubt want to charge extra for getting rid of it.
The frogs are noticeable by their absence and are undoubtedly asleep underneath the pump at the bottom of the pond. Unfortunately I will have to disturb them when the weather improves a little, because the pond filters need cleaning, although they soon settle down again afterwards. The trees are still shedding leaves and because it is saturated, we can do nothing about them; they stick like glue but need to be removed before I clean out the filters, otherwise they are bound to end up in the pond.
The first snow of this winter has now fallen in parts of Somerset, Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire and North Dorset. As you might guess, it was a complete surprise to those areas and has caused road chaos.

Snow fell in the South and the West Country overnight, including in Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon
 Heavy rain in parts of the South-East and East Anglia has led to flood warnings
 Tomorrow will be the coldest Bonfire Night since daily records began 14 years ago
 People have flocked to bet on a white Christmas; Ladbrokes have already slashed the odds

By Paul Bentley


Your calendar may say November... but the weather seems to think otherwise.
 
Blizzards swirled across the North East and snow blanketed parts of the West Country yesterday.
 
A light scattering of snow was reported in Gloucestershire, an inch fell in Dorset, and up to six inches fell in Somerset in Bath, Frome, Midsomer Norton and the Mendip Hills, after temperatures plummeted on Saturday night

Liz Burt, 54, from Sherborne, Dorset,woke up to the wintery scene and grabbed her camera to take a picture of the unusual weather.
 
She said: ‘I drew back the curtains this morning and really wasn’t expecting to see snow coming down so thick and fast.
 
‘It looked like a beautiful Christmas image, almost like a postcard, but I couldn’t believe it was happening so early.
 
'I was planning on going down to my allotment and planting my broad beans and onions for next spring but the ground is just too slushy to do that now.

'It looks like I'll have to put the log fire on and read the papers instead.'
 
In the North East, a blizzard battered Crookburn Bridge, on the County Durham and Cumbria border, and thick fog descended around Sunderland, making driving conditions very difficult.
 
Charlie Powell, forecaster at the Met Office said: ‘It has been incredibly cold recently and the snow was caused by an area of low pressure coming in from the North West.
 
‘As it moved through the south the temperatures dropped to low single figures causing a small handful of places to have snow overnight.

‘It came down fast but it isn’t set to last.’

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