Stormy Weather

[eighthobstruction]

Yep....gritted it now....but most of our neighbourhood is paved with Yorkshire stone slabs [lethal at the best of times]....so A&E may be having a bit of a rush on....

....wondering what the origin of 'going for a pearler' might be....??

[Chris Newman]

....wondering what the origin of 'going for a pearler' might be....??

I can only think that it is rhyming slang for something like going for a "whirler" or "hurler" as in being hurled to the ground.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

taking a dive? Man U style

[Chris Newman]

taking a dive? Man U style

Ah, yes. Payment in pearls.

[subcontrabass]

Yep....gritted it now....but most of our neighbourhood is paved with Yorkshire stone slabs [lethal at the best of times]....so A&E may be having a bit of a rush on....

....wondering what the origin of 'going for a pearler' might be....??

OED suggests a preferred spelling of "purler" from the colloquial noun "purl": "An act of hurling something, pitching, or tumbling head over heels; a heavy fall, esp. from a horse; (also) the capsizing of a boat.", first attested 1825. Possibly also linked to the adjective "pirling" as in "pirling wheel" - a spinning wheel - first attested 1448-9. Nothing recorded before that to indicate a specific root, although Norwegian and Swedish have similar words related to bubbling or swirling water.

[eighthobstruction]

thanks for that....

[DracoM]

Yup, sheet black ice in Ultima Thule, couldn't get to washing hung up all night because of it -so lethal the standings this morning can't get near it either! So there it will hang in iced up simulacra of people.

[eighthobstruction]

Ah, yes. Payment in pearls.

I believe the pearls came top last year, just above [hence before] thee er um???

[Serial_Apologist]

I believe the pearls came top last year, just above [hence before] thee er um???

Goodness me! - Stormy Weather off the bottom of What's New postings!

What is the world coming to? I've just been looking at another thread, in which the regular people with whom we sensibly discuss anything from Bruckner to Birtwistle elsewhere suddenly demonstrate all the symptoms of having been born and raised on Planet Computer World. Anyone for transcoding? I'd previously assumed that to be an activity best kept off the forum.

But I came on here to announce my prediction for the ending of the current spell of very cold weather in this particular neck of the woods. If you are in N Ireland, Scotland and Cumbria the change is already taking place - signalled by the freezing rain you have been... enjoying. Here in the S, the East, the Midlands and the Welsh marches we will see the last of very low temperatures on Monday. It will still be on the cold side, with a north-westerly airstream setting in, but nothing like as cold as at present. In fact, more like... *normal* for February.

[DracoM]

Fine. Well, thanks for that confident prediction. Up here 4.45 9/2/12 it is now sleeting and snowing on top of patchily melted black ice.

Got any more useful predictions?

[Anna]

Fine. Well, thanks for that confident prediction. Up here 4.45 9/2/12 it is now sleeting and snowing on top of patchily melted black ice.
Got any more useful predictions?

Are you very far North Draco (not asking your speficic location, just generally which side of the country!) Looking threatening here but still above freezing at 2.8, no sign of anything yet

[DracoM]

Very north, west central, can't see the fells at all, fog coming, sleet turning to snow, temp 0C-1C and dropping.

Apart from that, nice enough for Feb.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well snowing in the middle kingdom ... just started ... freezing cold all day -1 or worse ...

[jayne lee wilson]

Rain and maybe freezing rain, cold and grey - I've never seen the Blackbirds more desperate, thronging round the kitchen yard and clearing the caged birdtable at least twice this afternoon. It's terrible for small birds to be cold AND wet. Our tougher resident ferals soon gave up and went back to their roosts. Many more Wood Pigeons flocking nearby, coming in off the frozen fields.

[greenilex]

Why do long-tailed tits knock on the glass of my first-floor window?

Or do you think it's just one particular one?