Rain, rain go away.
Come back another day.

I don't mind a day of rain. But this is getting rediculous.

Looking at the 25 day forecast we're still going to be getting days of heavy rain right into the 2nd week of June.

Some cover crops still need planting, wild pheasant and partridges nests are getting washed out, my resident mallard duck is down to just 1 duckling having started with 9 and we have standing water in places we didn't have the whole of the winter. The deer have stopped showing and stalking has been reduced to snatching what we can between the periods of rain.The farm manager is concerned about haylige making, and the site for the village fair is a sea of mud.

They have even forecast snow up in the hills.

Ho hum.

Global warming my ass.

It has certainly been a miserable time getting up at 4am to go roebuck stalking with clients and knowing your going to get soaked but hey ho!

We could do with dry weather now for a month or 3!

Some covers crops not in, no sileage cut, lambs dying to wet and cold, wild bird chicks and nests washed away etc etc...

Fortunately my days of dragging clients around whilst it tips it down are over. My visiting stalkers are friends. If we're in for a soaking we just stay in our beds. We then wait for the sun to make an apperance and try and snatch one as it attempts to dry out on the conservation headlands.

The game farms are having a nightmare! lets hope we get a break soon. The last thing I want is poults going into saturated release pens.

It is the cold that is annoying me - the grass here started to grow about the end of February and we had 3 days of "summer" at the end of March when it was relatively mild and the sun came out. Since then the grass has basically stopped growing again and there have been frosts at night, though our rainfall has been about normal I would say.

Last year the rain started about this time of year and it rained solid, and was really cold, until about the end of October. We had days in August that only just made it into double figures. I'm in Northern Ireland by the way, the Outer Hebrides have had a lovely time of it with people reporting getting great tans.

If the sun ever appears in the sky here there will be mass panic as people are shocked by the big yellow thing in the sky.

Whatever the weather, we will be told that it is proof of global warming.