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Minx



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

At last! Some decent snow here in Peterborough. We only got a dusting earlier in the week despite the weathermen threatening East Anglia, but today, when they're not, (and not even reporting it) we have about six inches. There are two snowmen in view, both sporting carrot noses and one with a hat and scarf. Only two of the cars on the street have left for work, so it looks like another stay-at-home day. (East Anglian Jessies!) Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No snow here (yet?), except for a little remnant of what fell earlier this week.

Different story in South Yorkshire, where my middle son lives. He couldn't get his car out of the garage this morning. He somehow made it to work but has now been sent home.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, the weather forecasters got it right, and we got four inches at just the wrong time. Some amusement was to be had watching a couple of desperate souls trying to get their cars moving and up the incline out of our close; it wouldn't have done them much good if they'd succeeded because the main road out (also a hill - this area is full of 'em) was blocked with cars and vans at funny angles.

So the schools had another day off, my wife worked from home, frequently cursing our broadband which was obviously feeling the strain, and I kept her fed and watered, in between running about for mum/mum in law.

Things have slowly improved during the day, with a slow thaw - it's not freezing just yet and it's actually quite pleasant out there, very quiet with hardly any traffic, wheeled or otherwise. We walked to our local Sainsbury for a few things - oh if only every week was so quiet in there, and so light on the wallet!

Your trip sounds intriguing, but a shame if things did not go as hoped, Rachel. I didn't know Big Ben had had a makeover; like a lot of things the London Eye looks better from a distance (I have been up it, but the day was a bit hazy).
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So! Snow was forecast for Monday evening and through into Tuesday morning. So we organised a number of appointments for Monday, told everyone else to avoid Tuesday - and lo and behold - tonight we have snowflakes very much as Johnny Walker described on his show tonight - the size of half crowns. Oh joy! Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glorious day here on the Norfolk coast as was yesterday.. in fact we've had very little snow at all!
and me with a 4x4... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So far, not much snow. Off to Pocklington (nr York) for an Interview. back to sunny scunny for 3pm for a shift and home for midnight
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good luck with the interview BGW! Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just enough snow to cover last evening, which made it interesting when we came to take both mums home (they always come down to us for Sunday dinner) and the stupid car couldn't manage up and out of the close (and no grit left in the bin to help). Brother-in-law rode to the rescue in his jalopy (a 25-yr old Volvo, looks like a colander but built like a tank).

Unlike previous nights it didn't freeze so everyone got away cleanly this morning. Thick fog has now descended, but I hear a wind's blowing in from the south with goodness knows what in its wake.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We escaped with only rain here last night, we have clear sky and sunshine and the slow thaw of lying snow continues - it's treacherous to walk on.

Other parts of the country are less fortunate. The south and west, already battered at the weekend, is getting another dose
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7880302.stm
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Incredible amount of rain here yesterday, all day and all evening. The garden looks like the Somme! We are promised a bit of sunshine later, I think we deserve it!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It started snowing just before bedtime last night, and about 1.00am there were a couple of inches of fresh snow on the cars outside. By 7.00am though the snow had become very wet, and it's now thawing once again. Even more slush on the roads.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A flurry or two here but very little compared with further south.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few snow pics from the weekend....


me out and about




me Freezing!




me again....hey you've got a camera too!




a farm...



our little holiday home... Smile




the road to Church



the path to Church ( and Hubby)



The Church



The Church again- auditioning for a Christmas card?



having fun back at home....( annoying the neighbours)



My Snow Alien.... take me to your leader....
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fantastic photos, Rachel. The Snow Alien is a work of art. You're so lucky to live in such a beautiful, peaceful part of the country.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's snowing quite steadily here this morning.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovely blue skies and after a frosty start, should be a nice day.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clear blue sky when I got up at seven (after a starry, frosty night, down to -4C again) but it has clouded over and there's a flake or two gently floating about.

Where the sun doesn't reach we still have snow lying from a fortnight ago, except it's now sheet ice and very slippery.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovely and sunny here today +3.7 big degrees outside and +21.9 big degrees inside. No snow , no wind, no clouds ( maybe one or two over yonder but none here). There's a tiny little mound of white stuff where my snow alien was but the snow is pretty much gone from everywhere else. It's so nice out, I'm going for a walk over the fields to gather my thoughts, before another round of hospital visiting this afternoon.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zero degrees on the nail. Snowing and settling. My wife's just phoned to say she's stuck in traffic and has moved 100 yards in half an hour. At that rate she'll be home just after she needs to go out again in the morning! Sad
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A good deal of yesterday's snow has gone from here now but it was quite hairy at its worst. You may have seen a snow-covered A167 Newcastle Central Motorway on last night's national news. Two of my three sons work in the city and were both sent home early.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:
Lovely and sunny here today +3.7 big degrees outside and +21.9 big degrees inside. No snow , no wind, no clouds ( maybe one or two over yonder but none here). There's a tiny little mound of white stuff where my snow alien was but the snow is pretty much gone from everywhere else. It's so nice out, I'm going for a walk over the fields to gather my thoughts, before another round of hospital visiting this afternoon.


I went for a drive instead.

This is where I went:- and what I looked at.

Overlooking Abbotsbury and Chesil Beach towards the Isle and Royal Manor of Portland.Below a short while later- looking back the other way.


Portland Heights..

Where the Olympic Sailing Events will take place


Where I went for lunch..... not another soul about.....



what I had for lunch ...... not as good as it looks...





The Jurassic Coast - well a little bit of it. Smile

No snow at all though - so this is probably the wrong thread....Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No matter, we've had enough snow, we deserve some sunshine, and to see such balmy conditions and landscape is a tonic in itself. It all looks very clean as well, even the built-up area.

Shame about the f+c! Amazing how they sometimes manage to make something look so appetising and taste so bland (or, worse, of disinfectant) Sad

We didn't get much sun over the weekend. This is a subdued but quite swollen River Trent, between Burton Joyce and Gunthorpe Bridge





and very little human or bird life about, until we came upon a union meeting of geese, just breaking up



Returning to the topic, this was from the previous weekend, our local park



The war memorial includes the name of one of my wife's uncles, killed in the Second World War


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always find the best thing about f&c is the smell and the anticipation, they often disappoint once you get your choppers round them!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool beans! Looks jolly cold there the previous weekend, Ron. Also, very flat... bet you have a skateboard Smile Nice ducks? too. Are they ducks- they look very big. What sort are they?. We don't have ducks like that here.

ah .... Geese! " This is what happens when you speed read. Smile

The f&c were ok ish ( only £3... exactly half what they cost in Dorchester) - well the chips were ok- the fish and the batter was undercooked, and full to bursting with fat. There were no bins there either - so I had to suffer the f&c aroma, all the way home. Sad

I think it's the vinegar MiS and maybe the smell of the Chips. It is quite a draw.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me? A skateboard? Laughing



Son's, bought for him by his mother after much cajoling some seven or eight years ago. Used for about five minutes til he fell off and thought better of it, since when it has stood in the porch. The surprise is that no-one has nicked it.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reminds me of the skate boarding duck from Nationwide which I saw on a BBC4 show just last week. Anyone remember it?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do remember seeing it at the time.

In television terms Nationwide was successful; it launched several careers and it brought many local names and faces some national fame. It is funny, though, that the only item which most people can remember with any certainty from 14 years of the programme is a skateboarding duck.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

..or the drunken slug!

I saw that prog about Nationwide, brought back a lot of memories, all seems a bit primitive now but had some good ideas.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was impossible pulling this thread down to my Nokia phone via 3G due to the number of images embedded!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If she had been available, Rachel would no doubt have sent us more pictures like these, of Dorset yesterday...





...and, judging by the traffic report on Terry's programme, road conditions are still difficult down there.

We had a little sleet yesterday afternoon, and a sharp frost, down to -3.3C overnight - clear blue sky and sunshine right now.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apparently on a televised forecast on Wednesday a glitch meant that the South-East was predicted to experience a temperature of -99c.

lol.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4942154/BBC-weather-forecaster-predicts--99C-in-Kent.html

As usual, the photo that appears in the paper doesn't online Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As usual, two days ago nobody in Fort William could get to work, not headline news - yesterday it was somewhere down south was it Portsmouth , yeah headline news.
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