Sudokuaholics Anonymous 4

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Naughty me Just happened to pop in at the right time.

Good evening. Is Any one home?

shhhh sure is quiet..

everybody must be

I'll just turn down the lights, and close the curtains.

Everything seems to go quiet at the top of a new page and speed up near the bottom. Our sunny day is getting a bit dark! and a cold wind is blowing.

Hi June, Rolanda and Debbie
The cold winds have been blowing here since last night. Great for getting clothes dry, if not for getting them on the line in the first place!

Noone here for over 4 hours!! And hubby off at TAFE so plenty of time to be here??? Life is inconvenient...

Gail, are you getting rain?

None tonight Suzy.

from a fairly warm 16C top temperature Stevenage. Gail you would need a thermal vest on all the time if you came to see me sometimes our temps don't get much past 14C in the summer. though to be honest we do get some nice hot weather too, which to you would probably just be comfortable.

It's not so much the cold temps that are the prob Brenda, it's more the fact that our temps change so radically. Last week was a positively pleasant autumn week and now we are in the midst of a cold snap. Cant keep up!!!

Rolanda pleased you had a good weekend away.
your ensuite is looking good.

Temperature does not really tell the whole story. I find that 18/19*c in UK feels very different to the same temperature here. I have been in London when it was 12*c and it was quite pleasant but with that temp here I would feel nearly frozen. Humidity, wind chill etc all make a big difference.

But then Gail Melbourne is known for its changeable weather!

We have the same swings of temps Gail, saturday was glorious, 20C sunny with no wind, Sunday started off quite warm then temps dropped and so did the rain. today top temp will be 16C but in the shade it feels a lot less and there is a cold wind too.
I just hope we are done with frosts as I have planted out my seedling veg plot.

Hi June, London is always a few degrees warmer than we have even though I live only 32 miles from the centre of London. DH regualrly goes into London wearing a coat but has to take it off while in London as he would be too warm.

My niece and her husband move out to Perth about 7 years ago. They used to live in the north east of England where the temps were always a lot colder than the south. He never used to wear a coat even during the winter, now he complains if the temps in Perth fall below 20C. Weather is what you get used too. My nice warm day would be chilly to most Australians

Brenda, same goes here for humidity! I have had visits or meetings innearby cities with 3 different Aussie friends, and although the summer temps were in thier comfort range, they just could not stand the added humidity! One was a young man, son of a friend, came to see and learn about domes, while on an extended holiday in southeast USA. He almost had heat stroke one day on the beach in Mississippi with friends and again here working in the sun.

But you know, one think I do not agree with, not everyone can get accustomed to thier weather. I never get accustomed to our 95%humidity coupled with over 95 degree weather! I hibernate in the AC, it is intolerable to me. If I get out, it is early morning, and I mean VERY early mornings. If I must go out in the sute, Hubby will go and start car and run AC to cool it for me. We usually have about 4 to 6 weeks of such miserable weather, mid July to mid august, but lately that period is getting longer and longer. I dread it's comming this year!

Sute should have been AUTO , how did that happen? A double typo in a 4 letter word, oh dear!

Let me go and put the coffee on, maybe I can do that without a mishap.



Coffee, tea and choccie from the virtual pot, always hot, always fresh. Have a cup and sit a spell.

NO for me today, it is wet wet wet outside, rained all night, might rain again. Oh that grass, I can hear it growing!

OK, I will get out of here for a bit. Too far for a TOPPS.

I LOVE my mowing smilie, now if I could get it and that driver off the page and into my yard hehehe

21 pages to go!!

As we rarely get that sort of humidity MizT I never thought about it but I agree that is one weather condition you never get used to, you can accept it but get used to it no.
I can just imagine you on your mower racing round cutting grass I don't have enough grass to warrant a sit on mower, so leave it up to my son to use our old petrol driven mower which I think is on its last legs.

Brenda, I mow about a half acre. the other half acre is in buildings or woods at the back of the lot ( block?). I also cut a nice wide 30 foot swath of the vacant property next door, just so I do not have to LOOK at it, as our driveway is right on property line. Having no son and a husband who is allergic to cutting grass, I need my reding mower! It still takes me almost an hour to zoom around the place and I never getr finished with the whipper snipper.

Ninety persent humidity or a dew point above 65 degrees is like walking outside into a wet sponge! Getting smacked in the face with a wet towel, trying to work in a steam room, but a steem room is a bit more pleasant!

ONLY 17 more posts till TOPPS, but who is counting??

MizT, I usually have to bully Ds to get the grass cut. Try to get them to do some gardening is impossible, unless I start it and find that I cannot finish as my aching joints are too painful then thsy will come out and help. D#1 is the one who normally helps un-asked but she is really busy with studies and lesson planning.

I'm not counting

Okay, try again.... Maen all!

That took 3 tries!

Humidity doesn't bother me until the temp gets into the high 20's, then it starts to feel exactly the way Mamacita described it.

I don't know how to work out how many acres we mow. We don't usually mow the back paddock, but I think the yard area is about 100m long (counting front yard). Probably a third of an acre?

I played around with my convert program and it could be as much as half an acre minus the house. A lot to mow without a ride on! Hence the recent visit from the horses...

Sorry MizT - brain on strike this morning - I would add to your excellent description of high humidity 'like walking into a wall'.

If daughter B runs out of grass for her horses I will get her to drop them over Suzy.

Suzy I have been waiting for you to come back.

Are you doing the puzzles or getting your daughters ready for school?

submitted this avatar ages ago but this is the first time I have used it

Or I can go back to my chaise lounge

Will it work this time

I have gone out of the page and come back so see if it works now

Try this time

It worked