Stormy Weather

[EdgeleyRob]

pompey game postponed. best result they have had in months.

Great result for us too,we didn't play,full classified to follow.

[mangerton]

I feel embarrassed, the digi camera was an old cast off from my bro hence not quality photos, but the hoar/rime was extraodinary and I am so glad you enjoyed it! It is the most amazing frost exeperience I have ever encoutered.

As others have said, two great photos, but the first is stunning.

[Anna]

As others have said, two great photos, but the first is stunning.

]Oh, maybe I should have submitted it to Country File and photoshopped a Stoat in the foreground?

When I returned home this moring I saw the same Heron standing by the river, gazing intently at the water. I wonder if he is the same Heron who always thinks this is a good spot for fishing or are there are a family of them, taking turns.

[mangerton]

]Oh, maybe I should have submitted it to Country File and photoshopped a Stoat in the foreground?

When I returned home this moring I saw the same Heron standing by the river, gazing intently at the water. I wonder if he is the same Heron who always thinks this is a good spot for fishing or are there are a family of them, taking turns.

You could have done that; the danger is you might have accidentally added a weasel. Many people find it hard to tell the difference, which is strange, because..... (altogether now)

Weasels are weasily recognised, and stoats are stotally different.

Herons, otoh, look quite similar. I saw one in the borders a few years ago, in a field with some pigs. I got two pictures, not brilliant, which are somewhere in the archives. I'll have a look tomorrow.

[Nick Armstrong]

]Oh, maybe I should have submitted it to Country File and photoshopped a Stoat in the foreground?

The phrase "photoshopping a Stoat" has for some reason really got under my skin! Love it!

Sounds like a euphemism...

"Hang on a sec, just going to photoshop the Stoat!"

Could mean anything...

[Anna]

"Hang on a sec, just going to photoshop the Stoat!"
Could mean anything...

And, with that merry thought. we shall wend our way up the stairs to Bedfordshire!

[salymap]

The phrase "photoshopping a Stoat" has for some reason really got under my skin! Love it!

Sounds like a euphemism...

"Hang on a sec, just going to photoshop the Stoat!"

Could mean anything...

Another one. Years ago I read a novel by Pamela Frankeau where a character often said 'No time to play with the Giraffe' and for a time that caughton with me and my friends. I like Anna's version though

[BBMmk2]

Anna, that photo you too of the winter scene of your river looks stunning! How very surreal?

[BBMmk2]

That photo of the winter scene anna is absolutely stunning! uote surreal.

[amateur51]

It is the most amazing frost exeperience I have ever encoutered.

Fingers crossed this idea doesn't get a thread all of its own

[Nick Armstrong]

Another one. Years ago I read a novel by Pamela Frankeau where a character often said 'No time to play with the Giraffe' and for a time that caughton with me and my friends. I like Anna's version though

[Nick Armstrong]

Well the lunchtime prediction was for mostly light rain for here tomorrow, maybe turning sleety later. he main snow band is expected to come down from the NW on Monday evening. It should clear your area, Anna, then get stuck over the Home Counties on Monday night, fortunately as a weakening system by that stage, but we'll still be on the continental arctic air side of it here, which will seep over the rest of the country from Tuesday onwards.

Hello S_A and pleased to hear you're back in fighting aka pedalling form

Could I invoke your expertise?

Tomorrow, I am scheduled to make the following road trip:

11am approx leave London up the M1
2pm - 4pm: business in Nottingham
4pm - 5pm: drive up vi Newark to Lincoln
7pm - 10pm: drive back to London doubtless on the A1, maybe M1

Do you think I am likely to meet significant snow & ice related driving problems, according to your crystal balls, entrails etc?

Sorry to use you as a dial-a-forecast service!

[mangerton]

As promised, or threatened, yesterday, here are my heron and pig photos. I was driving a few miles south of Hawick a few years ago, and saw the heron. I hurriedly stopped the car and grabbed the camera. Absolutely no pretensions to great photography, but I'd never seen a heron before.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59411788/heron1.JPG

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59411788/heron2.JPG

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59411788/heron3.JPG

OT: It's been snowing here in a very half-hearted fashion all day today, but nothing's lying. I have seen a few cars passing with an inch or two of snow on the roof, so I expect there's snow lying north of the city.

[Anna]

Thanks mangerton, a heron making friends with a pig! The one that I see is always at the same place, where the river has the remains of the old leat to the mill but a friend of mine who goes fishing further upriver tells me that a heron is often there watching him. A couple of miles away is a substantial dwelling with an ornamental lake. I've been told a heron made off with some koi carp, whether that's true or not I don't know, I would have thought koi would be too big for a heron to cope with?

Offtopic, never heard of dropbox, presume it's like photobucket (which I have been having problems with today) so I'll take a look at it, Cali's suggestion of Imagur just refuses to work for me. It's nice to see peoples photos.

It's been brilliantly sunny from first light, although hazy. Cloud cover is quite high and temp dropping rapidly, just below 3° at present. If we get the snow it's supposed to arrive about 10pm but still forecast to turn to rain tomorrow. Fingers crossed it will. Meanwhile we await S_A's prognostications re Caliban's journey ......

[mercia]

have to say, looking at the BBC forecast, Lincolnshire doesn't look too clever tomorrow snow-wise, particularly the afternoon



got the blanket, thermos and snow-shovel ready, our newly elevated host ?