weather or not

It's a Scottish Spring on Gigha. Unlike the last three years when we had a very long dry spell  including almost all of May - it is showers every day - and some powershower raindrops. The forecast surface pressure map shows fronts coming across every 12 hours for the next four or five days. This means we will lose a good few days work as the site is very greasy and not great for JCB work and definitely no concreting floors. Kit put back till early July already and we can't afford too much more slippage but are totally weather dependent now.
Haven't heard our corncrake for a week or so so he must have gone elsewhere to seek a mate. Swallows abound and we have thrushes nesting under the eaves of the big shed. Bluebells have gone mad this year. On the ferry Thursday and everyone was feeling very weary - we think its the weather. It has been cold enough the last couple of days for us to have lit a fire in the evening too.
But its Spring and a wonderful time of year...

weather or not

Well its getting colder, wetter and more windy. Forecast this week is for alternate days of heavy rain and light rain on the very wet BBC and one day of heavy rain and light showers on XC Weather. On Gigha most people use XC Weather. Gigha is in a wee rain shadow between the hills of Islay and Paps of Jura and the KIntyre ridge - we don't get as much rain as the reference stations on Kintyre or Islay. so the BBC usually overstates how much rain we're going to get and XC is more accurate, but occasionally understates.

Shuttering is finished for the wee roundhouse and half done for the sunspace so nearly there. Trouble is the site is very wet now and the finished strip foundations are getting submerged every day with ground water as the water table is up so I will not be able to do the blockwork without pumping out and hoping the cement goes off before it fills up again. Such are logistics of winter building.

We still have no central heating so it is very cold apart from the front room in front of the fire.

Worst of all is the clocks changing next weekend. I hate winter darkness. We have had two bright days where the sun has not set until 6:30 ish - losing an afternoon hour of daylight from next Sunday is a real pain.