Is it really Spring?

NigelM said:
From a farming perspective we are running 3 whole weeks behind the 10 year average, so spring is officially really late this year. But the ducks are now sitting, leverets are being dropped all over the fields, the daffodils are finally in full bloom and the rape and the winter wheat and barley have got a proper sprint on. It's been a long wet winter and the water table is exceptionally high, but summer is coming...really!
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We have a field of winter down rape where we keep our horses. Wood pigeons have lived off it . There's bu&&er all growing and we're wondering if it will be ploughed in and re sewn.
 
Round here there's bu55er-all straw, and what there is is going for silly prices, the farmer that's been supplying haylage for donkeys years has run out due to the cr4p summer last year and all his stock still being in, should be out in the fields by now but no chance, the countryside is just a mud-bath at the moment. On the plus side, managed to go down the local on Monday night for the pub-quiz (all for charity, folks) roof down. That's a first for the evening this year.
 
22 degrees forecast for next week, we can all moan that its too hot =))
 
hard top said:
What ever happened with Al Gore and global warming?
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It's very real. Seen the evidence first hand and it can't be argued with by anyone who has any grasp of science. CO2 has risen steadily over the last 200 years in line with world population growth and world economic growth. The only real solution is to reverse the population growth, but that concept doesn't win many votes. It's quite possibly the worlds most serious problem yet very few want to take it seriously. Much easier to focus on plastic in the oceans which in comparison is like polishing a car when the engine has blown. But it makes us feel better.

Sorry to dampen the Spring thread even more than the weather is trying it's best to do at the moment :)
 
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