h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No. I haven't got a wind sped indicator, but there's 3 weatherstations within 12 miles of here ,all saying that it's 23-30 mph.You can generally gauge it ,after you've been here a while.

At 40 mph, you have to hang on to the car door as it opens, or risk losing it. At 50mph, one is walking horizontally.

At 60, there could be a few roof slates loosening.At 70, you don't go out if you don't have to.

At 80, it sounds like an express train is just about to hit the house.

At 90, I'm usually under the duvet, with the radio earphones on.

and Floss at litter tray

Flossie hasn't experienced a "big blow "yet.

Will be interesting to see what she makes of it.

(she'll probably join me under the duvet)

would not be surprised, it is a pity that down the wind side of your fields, there wasn't any of those large firs, which would help deflect the winds a little

Leylandii? I had a vain hope of getting some that householders had been told to remove from small gardens

They only go brown and die off here.you have to plant trees at 45 degree angle into the wind, so they come straight after a few years

Leylandii! that's the word I was looking for, I knew it, but couldn't spell it

you could use the net, to see what sort of tree would survive in a sandy soil maybe

willows

cheap to get ??

what you need to do here, is plant a hedge, then grow potentially bigger trees behind it,so they have shelter when they're immature.hopefully, by the time the big trees poke their heads above the parapet, they're strong enough to survive.

Doesn't always work.

willows are very cheap to get. you break off a bit and stick it in the ground and it grows.

Lousy windbreaks, though.

hawthorn hedge ?

willow is out then ?? mmmm

Hawthorn is good .taks a long time to grow ,here, though and never high enough to shield a house.

if i'd had enough cash when I first moved here, I could have planted a row of ash trees, and sycamores, that would probably stand the wind, but to be effective, takes about 20 years.



















no.I'm not going to do it now.

oh

honestly, if J wants to email no problem(geniuses in conference)sounds good

I will always treat you as a ladyanything less and I would demean myself

said like the true gentleman that you are.

btw: I'm halfway through the Pomfret Cakes

as soon as I get a Irish lottery win, another supply will get there

gentleman! I can only try, my granddad was one

you succeed ,too!

Don't fret, they sell them here as well, you know.

And I'm interspersing them with the winegums,of course.

by all rights, I should be as fat as a goose at christmas. !

All the running up and down stairs helps,I suppose.It helps to have a bad memory.I'm always forgetting all that I went up for.

I have a saying and no offence meant "they don't fatten thoroughbreds"

gentleman! I wouldn't know how to act different, or couldn't!