Stormy Weather

[marthe]

Brassbandmaestro, you're welcome to this storm if it crosses the Atlantic. It's a corker! I'm sure you've had quite enough already! This is our first real brush with winter weather and probably won't be the last.

marthe

[mangerton]

Yes, we've had quite few brushes with winter already - in fact, I've still got two in the car now, a handbrush and a large floor brush for removing snow. I've also got two shovels.

More snow here overnight, and the forecast isn't brilliant, either.

[salymap]

If it's three or four degrees above freezing, why is it still so slippery everywhere? I put my bins out and the path is like glass. When will it THAW ? Good luck to Euda in NYC and all in the north and Scotland.

[Anna]

It reached 3.9 earlier this afternoon. Thawing reasonably well on the fields, on tarmac it's now treacherous slush. Heavy rain is promised later. Most people here think that the Christmas break has gone on too long (bearing in mind we were snowed in from Monday to Thursday), plus this double Bank Holiday has most people itching to get back to normal. Don't they say that whatever the East of the US gets, we get 10 days later? Our lowest temperature was -13.6 on Christmas Day night.

[french frank]

Total thaw overnight here, and continuing today. Typical! I bought some frozen peas and had them hanging outside. They've thawed too so it's going to be peas with everything for the next week. (Why can't you get small packets of peas these days?)

[mercia]

(Why can't you get small packets of peas these days?)

Buy tinned (or is that blasphemy?)

[Anna]

Total thaw overnight here, and continuing today. Typical! I bought some frozen peas and had them hanging outside.

The thought of french frank's washing line adorned with peas suddenly reduced me to helpless giggles! Still, I suppose her neighbours are used to it.

[french frank]

Buy tinned (or is that blasphemy?)

No, but they don't taste the same.

Anna, I didn't say they were hanging on the washing line. They were in a plastic bag with some sprouts and a savoy cabbage, and tied to the tap outside my kitchen door.

[doversoul1]

Sorry, ff. I shouldn’t laugh but as Anna says….

Make soup with them before they go all too soggy. All you need to do is to chop up an onion, fry it and just liquidise it and the peas with hot water and milk (whatever the proportion you prefer), throw in a cube of vegetable or chicken cube, salt and pepper and add a lump of butter or /and cream if you like. You can freeze this (but not hang on the washing line) if you don’t fancy it now. If you have thyme or parsley, chop them up and add to the pot. It makes a nice lunch.

[mercia]

washing line adorned with peas

that's put an image in my mind of, say, 200 peas individually pegged to a washing line

[Anna]

that's put an image in my mind of, say, 200 peas individually pegged to a washing line

I counted them out - and I counted them in!!

[mercia]

I counted them out - and I counted them in!!

Brian Hanrahan - RIP

[Anna]

Brian Hanrahan - RIP

Indeed yes, he seemed such a lovely bloke, such a sad, too early, death. But, if one leaves a Savoy cabbage outside, surely that cabbage will not be happy at being frozen having had his roots cut? You know, one can be cruel to vegetables, hanging sprouts from an outside tap should be A Capital Offence. Oh, maybe it is!!

[mercia]

outside tap

in this weather I think the tap should be allowed indoors

[Serial_Apologist]

Well at least it's good to know that peas can now be contacted on-line!

While on that subject, a big thank-you to French Frank for keeping this site on-line right through the Christmas period - unlike the BBC, except for their Archers threads - a big sacrifice in terms of time over a busy weekend.

On anotherr topic, the good news is that the snow should all be gone by Thursday. Yippee!

S-A