Stormy Weather

[french frank]

for keeping this site on-line right through the Christmas period

What! I thought I locked up before I went out !

doversoul, but, erm, I don't have facilties for freezing other than the sub-zero weather! I had peas in my pork stew on Christmas Eve, peas with my poached smoked haddock today, shall have peas with the kedgeree tomorrow and with the soup made with the poaching milk the day after and still the peas limp on ... I thought they said the cold weather would go on and on or I wouldn't have bought the peas ...

[mangerton]

hanging sprouts from an outside tap should be A Capital Offence. Oh, maybe it is!!

If they're Brussels sprouts, it certainly is.

[salymap]

Morning all Stormyweatherites. For the first time my new boiler switched itself off in the night, it must be warmer!
Agree about Brian Hanrahan, he was one of the best. RIP
FF at least without a freezer, that's one worry you don't have; freezer going wrong when full of food as it is now. Every 'aid' or improvement brings its own insurance, back up or expense with it, I find.
Happy Bank Holiday Tuesday to you all.

[Eudaimonia]

Morning Sal! Glad your boiler is on the up...if you want a birdseye view of what it's like here, have a look at this video of the New York City blizzard time-lapsed into 30 seconds. Enjoy!

[greenilex]

Happy Bank Holiday to you too, salymap.

My granddaughter is helping me write this.

[Uncle Monty]

All snow just about gone here now. Yippeee!

Glad to see FF decided to Give Peas A Chance over the holiday

Sorry. . .

[Mary Chambers]

It's starting to thaw. Soon all will be soggy brown and green instead of beautiful sparkling white. I shall miss the snow. It's rather foggy here, over the field behind my son's house.

[french frank]

Glad to see FF decided to Give Peas A Chance over the holiday

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Your health, Uncle

[salymap]

Euda,thanks, that speeded up snow scene was quite something. best, sal

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wet wet wet in middle kingdom, and warm enough to have all the windows open and blow away the [alas] smoke and moisture [laundry] and the relief at not needing thermals!
i'd try some ham in that pea soup ff [funnily enough that is the weather forecast too]

[amateur51]

All snow just about gone here now. Yippeee!

Glad to see FF decided to Give Peas A Chance over the holiday

Sorry. . .

Excellent delight, Uncle Monty

[Anna]

A most horrible day here, thick fog, gloomy, everything looks mucky and dirty but blissfully warm at over 5 degrees. I was reminded, re french frank and her washing line and outside tap of hanging vegetables, of that old refrain by Marie Lloyd "She sits amongst the cabbages and peas", I have no idea why.

[StephenO]

It's absolutely vile here. Dark, foggy, all the beautiful snow turned to brown slush. To make matters worse I arrived back from my brief Christmas break to find an outside pipe had burst and water was gushing, geyser-like, into the yard. Have you ever tried getting hold of a plumber over the Christmas holiday? I've had to turn the water off at the mains so have been without any for more than a day. Plus all the houses here are on water meters so my next bill will be astronomical. Sheer misery.

Roll on 2011.

[salymap]

I had Marie Lloyd on You- tube singing that but have had to cut faves back a bit She sang "She sits among the cabbages and leaks". Same but different. The knowing looks and laughter show that the Victorians weren't all that straight-laced after all. FF's problem made me think of four and twenty blackbirds ; perhaps it was the clothes line connection.

[Serial_Apologist]

By remarkable coincidence, there's a family connection to that Marie Lloyd story... Arthur Askey also related it on the radio many years ago - I remember it because he also quippeed about dancing with Gina Lollabridgida, and neither being able to see where he was going, or hear the music! - and my grandfather filled in the details

Ms Lloyd was due to appear, singing that song with its dodgy singalong chorus line, at a music hall at the back of a pub in the East End, actually owned and run by my great great grandfather. When word came that Queen Mary was to make one of her periodical visitations upon the less well-off of that particular neck of the woods, with a visit to said music hall, Marie Lloyd was persuaded to change the words, so as not to cause offense. Thus came the changed line, "And she sits among the cauliflours and leaks"!

There is an adjunct to this tale, but I rather fear it in turn might upset regular posters on this thread, too!

S-A