Stormy Weather

[Anna]

cheese omelette and chips sans ketchup but with green salad is food heaven!
saly, I always prefer to cook meat on the bone, it's just so much more flavoursome (and the joy of chewing lamb bones and that lovely caramelised fat ....)
Oh dear, now I am very hungry!

[Nick Armstrong]

well it is very chill and windy in middle kingdom dark grey skies and the looming change of the clocks make it a miserable day ...so the cheese omelette chips and ketchup was most welcome at lunchtime!

as was the Mahler 4 Rob played this am ...

The Mahler (Mvts 1-3) accompanied a journey this morning - I enjoyed it very much. Lots of swoopy portamenti!

[mangerton]

cheese omelette and chips sans ketchup but with green salad is food heaven!
saly, I always prefer to cook meat on the bone, it's just so much more flavoursome (and the joy of chewing lamb bones and that lovely caramelised fat ....)
Oh dear, now I am very hungry!

Living on my own, I rarely get the chance these days to have what used to be called (is it still?) a "joint". Last week, at Mrs mangerton's, I got the opportunity to cook lunch for four with roast rib of beef - on the bone - as the centrepiece. I greatly enjoyed both the cooking and the eating!

Anna, Caliban, and anyone else who's interested, "snell" is used to describe a sharp, piercing, bitterly cold wind. It's the wind rather than the temperature itself which is so described.

A moment ago I found this which describes it rather well. ("gey" means "very".)

[EdgeleyRob]

Very cold in Manchester today,winter is upon us..

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very cold in Manchester today,winter is upon us..

Very parky in the Pennines today, and due to get worse overnight. On the bright side, milder weather is forecast for the end of next week.

[marthe]

Temperature 8.5C right now on the north-facing wall here - which would be about right... for late November!!! Surprised to find it didn't seem as cold as one might expect, but this might be partly down to the NE breeze being only gentle to moderate, hence not too much wind chill, and my theory, anyway - that when told to expect cold we psychologically "cushion" ourselves in expectation of something much worse and mentally compensate.

I just checked to see if yesterday's chart for the eastern States for next Monday-into-Tuesday wasn't a bad dream yesterday, and I'm afraid it still looks about as awful as imaginable, with the centre of the giant low hitting New York smack on on Monday night, with winds averaging 35 mph, so, double that for maximum gusts at least, then. I guess we'll be getting headlines nearer the time.

S_A, this potential storm has already been dubbed "Frankenstorm" and is being well and truly hyped up by the media. I believe it is also supposed to blow through on the 20th (?) anniversary of "The Perfect Storm" of book and film fame. A perfect storm chez m. looms for weekend as daughter, nearly 30, moves back home for a while. Have any off you gone through the experience of having adult children return to the nest?

[mangerton]

marthe, I hope Frankenstorm has been over-hyped and that you are not badly affected.

On topic, it's been snowing here this evening. Not heavily, and very fine, but snow nevertheless, and it's still only October.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very windy down here tonight - this northerly is leaking its way into the room through our ancient Crittall windows, and I may have to vacate soon. Hope this is not a harbinger of more to come!

[salymap]

Cold here this morning and see raindrops on the window now.

Query, why do costs go up and services go down? My Gas supplier used to service a small gas fire in the living room as well as the boiler for a certain amount.

Now gas fire is not included and they want £100 to check the chimney and clean the fire..

[BBMmk2]

As is here Salymap! 1C, Ibelieve!!

[antongould]

Cold here this morning and see raindrops on the window now.

Query, why do costs go up and services go down? My Gas supplier used to service a small gas fire in the living room as well as the boiler for a certain amount.

Now gas fire is not included and they want £100 to check the chimney and clean the fire..

Morning

Because I would suspect in the eyes of the company your fire is no longer "standard" and so they feel they can effectively charge what they like. The days of the chap who can service anything are more or less gone..........

[antongould]

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oh and on topic we have a few centimetres of snow - inches also having more or less gone........

[Serial_Apologist]

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oh and on topic we have a few centimetres of snow - inches also having more or less gone........

Must be quite a bit colder where you are than here then, anton. It only just touched zero last night, but I saw the first flakes of snow of the "winter" here at about 7.30 in a passing sleet shower. Very hard work cycling against the northerly wind en route for E Dulwich just now, even though most of it is downhill! Lots of squelchy leaves to be traversed, with extreme care! One compensation is that the clarity of the air brings out the autumn tints magnificently

[amateur51]

Must be quite a bit colder where you are than here then, anton. It only just touched zero last night, but I saw the first flakes of snow of the "winter" here at about 7.30 in a passing sleet shower. Very hard work cycling against the northerly wind en route for E Dulwich just now, even though most of it is downhill! Lots of squelchy leaves to be traversed, with extreme care! One compensation is that the clarity of the air brings out the autumn tints magnificently

I agree S_A, there are some wonderful colours out there at the moment, it's worth getting wrapped up to see them, it's what autumn's all about

[Serial_Apologist]

Cold here this morning and see raindrops on the window now.

Query, why do costs go up and services go down? My Gas supplier used to service a small gas fire in the living room as well as the boiler for a certain amount.

Now gas fire is not included and they want £100 to check the chimney and clean the fire..

I know it's a drag, saly, but the only thing you can do is go over the small print of the arrangements you have with your gas maintenance firm with a large magnifying glass; if it says nothing about appliances of a certain age being excluded from the "agreement" you could try a challenge, and threaten to change your supplier. There's nothing to lose by so doing.