Sunshine!

cerianwencraft

May 12

I think I have got so used to the rain and cold that the arrival of the sunshine has amazed me. It is too hot though. Like many others we always find the weather not to our liking but there is nothing we can do about it. I often wish that it would rain at night and be sunny during the day. No doubt some country somewhere is able to provide this by some means or other.

The wet weather had made gardening out of the question and last week when able to garden, I found the snails had had a field day. Around each newly emerging perennial shoots were several snails having a feast. I have lost a lot of plants like many others. The rain of course has caused a lot of flooding in some areas and the farmers are unable to grow their usual crops.

I know some people do not believe in climate change. After all the climate has changed over the centuries. But it is changing now and it is obvious it is changing. We don't get the cold snowy winters that I remember when I was a child. We are getting more extremes of weather, longer wet spells and last year a very hot spell too. It is time to think about our food supply. I saw that one university has organised people to record what is going on in their gardens. Which plants came out earlier, which ones died when they would normally have survived and so on. This is a good start but we need to do more. Other countries are having droughts and famine. Are we going to be like them? Think about what you can do. Raised beds are good for growing veggies.