Stormy Weather

[Anna]

Ah, now I know!! Anna, i am surprised you not watching the rugby Six Nations!!

Actualy, BBM, I have been glued to France v Italy and will be later for the Scotland v England Match. Ditto Ireland v Wales tomorrow.

[amateur51]

Actualy, BBM, I have been glued to France v Italy and will be later for the Scotland v England Match. Ditto Ireland v Wales tomorrow.

I enjoyed the France v Italy game, Anna but I was pleased not to be there for 2 hours in a freezing cold Paris

I was so pleased for the French debutante scoring his try - didn't his captain give him a lovely hug?

And Nige was superb as so often

[Nick Armstrong]

... the one does not, necessarily, exclude the other.

You were aching to use the French, weren't you, vindepays?

[Nick Armstrong]

I enjoyed the France v Italy game, Anna but I was pleased not to be there for 2 hours in a freezing cold Paris

I was so pleased for the French debutante scoring his try - didn't his captain give him a lovely hug?

And Nige was superb as so often

Pity that the magnificently named Mr Trinh-Duc seems to have gone off the boil of late...

[BBMmk2]

Actualy, BBM, I have been glued to France v Italy and will be later for the Scotland v England Match. Ditto Ireland v Wales tomorrow.

My mother has to watch to see how my father is doing whilst the rugby is on!! His lips and ears rend to go blue!! He says he stays rather calm during the matches! Hmmmmm..............

[Anna]

And Nige was superb as so often

Was he not, and didn't you love him saying "I am not listening to you, with your arms in the air" when he was standing there, with his arms in the air!
Major fire incident here, yet another Brigade Engine, ambulance and police, and smoke billowing. Now road is closed, seems too near to be one of the farms. Quite upsetting if it is a house, rather than a barn. Edit: 3 fire engines and one ambulance have departed. And, it is no longing snowing

[Petrushka]

Heavy snow here this afternoon. Anyone who saw the racing from Wolverhampton on C4 will have an idea what it is like. The reported low temperatures in Eastern Europe are mind-boggling. Believe it has got down to minus 32 in places. When I went to Moscow in the winter of 1979/80 it was a relatively mild minus 10.

[amateur51]

Was he not, and didn't you love him saying "I am not listening to you, with your arms in the air" when he was standing there, with his arms in the air!
Major fire incident here, yet another Brigade Engine, ambulance and police, and smoke billowing. Now road is closed, seems too near to be one of the farms. Quite upsetting if it is a house, rather than a barn. Edit: 3 fire engines and one ambulance have departed. And, it is no longing snowing

Sounds nasty, Anna - I hope everyone is safe by this

[Richard Tarleton]

Actualy, BBM, I have been glued to France v Italy and will be later for the Scotland v England Match. Ditto Ireland v Wales tomorrow.

Just reflecting it's nice to see Proust and rugby mentioned in the same thread, nay in successive posts. Can't really imagine it somehow....

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah - steady snow has arrived in the last 10 minutes and at - 1 C is settling.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...for the last 30 mins in middle kingdom heavy fall but fine drops and settling

[Nick Armstrong]

Cor Calibs that's classy, that is Did that come with the Hispano-Suiza

I bet your movers were pleased when they saw the Bechstein

"And so if the Van Dykes have to go
And we've pawned the Bechstein Grand
We'll stand by the stately homes of England!"

Great stuff amms!

If only there'd been a classic motor!! (Some old family pics of the relevant great grandfather, a wool man in Bradford, show one or two very choice machines in the 20s and 30s including yer akshul Carstairs in a peaked cap. Sadly they didn't adjust to the advent of Nylon so here's me cycling to work )

It's astonishing what light work removers make of a grand. I had a borrowed Bluthner here for a few years (saving storage charges for a friend who had no room for it) - in and out in a trice. This one seemed even easier.

Sorry, have naughtily side-tracked this thread... ahem...

Light snow started here around 6pm. Very pleased to have no plans outside Chateau Caliban this evening and tomorrow

[Nick Armstrong]

One of the best funerals I went to was ancient Aunt in her 90s. Remarkable woman, adopted three siblings from Barnardos and then her husband died and she had to cope on her own. Anyway, she left money and instructions for the Wake to be held at her cottage with "plenty of sherry and ham" so we repaired there after Church service and burial and landed up playing cricket in the garden. Her mongrel mutt was called Joe-Joe and that is who my teddy bear is named for. I do remember her and the cricket match with great fondness.

Missed this earlier!

Could there be more perfect bliss than lashings of sherry and ham? What a great tale, Anna, and a great old girl commemorated. I think I shall use that phrase in a letter of wishes to go with my will

[Jonathan]

It's been snowing all day here in York, it's now about 10cm deep and getting worse...

[Mahlerei]

Just in after nightmare car journey with stalled bus on the steepish hill near where I live. My son (the driver) has had to park diagonally, with front of car on pavement, as there's no grip at all. Really swirling down.

The fun part is watching Sky playing in the garden, trying to snaffle up the snow. She's perfectly happy to lie down in it and watch the flakes coming down.