Stormy Weather

[salymap]

And yet my music student friend and I still struggled up to a freezing RAH rehearsal om most Sunday mornings as we had a pass from Sargent and LSO gave concerts at 3pm most weeks. I heard a lot of the basic repertoire live for the first time that way but brrr that hall was cold at 9.30am that winter. Much stamping about and hand exercises from the orchestra too. What it is to be a teenager

[mercia]

archive documentary about the 1963 big freeze, BBC2 Saturday, might be interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9d86

[Anna]

Thanks mercia, that looks interesting, will make a note to watch.

When I got up at 6am this morning (!) it was such a clear sky and the stars were burning bright. Not much of a frost but black ice. The Black Mountains were truly white and another lovely sunny day rising to 6°, dropping back sharply now to under 3° Not sure is we have any here from Norfolk but it seems they had total white-out for a while today in some parts and that's about it for expected snowfall but worrying forecast for Wales Friday with projected high accumulations. A friend's primroses are out and I noticed today some catkins and snowdrops so Spring will soon be here.

Report in the papers that supermarkets seeing a surge of buying of root vegs, braising steak, stewing lamb and sausages as we all settle down to warming, filling, meals Yumptious!

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks mercia, that looks interesting, will make a note to watch.

When I got up at 6am this morning (!) it was such a clear sky and the stars were burning bright. Not much of a frost but black ice. The Black Mountains were truly white and another lovely sunny day rising to 6°, dropping back sharply now to under 3° Not sure is we have any here from Norfolk but it seems they had total white-out for a while today in some parts and that's about it for expected snowfall but worrying forecast for Wales Friday with projected high accumulations. A friend's primroses are out and I noticed today some catkins and snowdrops so Spring will soon be here.

Report in the papers that supermarkets seeing a surge of buying of root vegs, braising steak, stewing lamb and sausages as we all settle down to warming, filling, meals Yumptious!

For those what can't be bothered faffing around with ingredients, there is a great selection of tinned soups for non-meat-eaters such as me in supermarkets, these days. Returned from local St Sprees with the back pack full this afternoon: proprietory brand Chorizo and Butter Bean; B*xter's Carrot and Coriander - just the thing to warm the cockes of the... cockles at midday in this weather.

Temperature maxed at 2 C here this afternoon - I noticed a few flakes of snow on the way back that weren't forecast this far west. Weeds grew plentifully while temperatures were above the crucial 8 C last week; the lawn is a thick, rich green, but, as yet, no sign whatsoever spring bulbs popping boldly into view, let alone flowering, in the neck of the woods. Brummie Simon predicts a partial breaking of the cold spell hitting SW Wales, Cornwall and Devon on Friday and Saturday, but as yet is not prepared to commit beyond then. Even the milder air trying to roll in from the west is not really mild for the time of year; tentatively he's saying it could remain on the cold side into February.

[Anna]

For those what can't be bothered faffing around with ingredients, there is a great selection of tinned soups for non-meat-eaters such as me in supermarkets, these days. Returned from local St Sprees with the back pack full this afternoon: proprietory brand Chorizo and Butter Bean; B*xter's Carrot and Coriander - just the thing to warm the cockes of the... cockles at midday in this weather.

I take it that's Vegetarian Choizo then - not a bit of a Piggy in sight? My favourite tinned soups are also Baxter's, soup and a bit of crusty baguette are Just the Ticket (as my old great-uncle Bill used to say!) I am custodian of his journals when he was a PoW in Stalag VIIA (I may have mentioned this before) and his fantasy menus compared to the rations he was getting, make interesting reading.

[Serial_Apologist]

I take it that's Vegetarian Choizo then - not a bit of a Piggy in sight? My favourite tinned soups are also Baxter's, soup and a bit of crusty baguette are Just the Ticket (as my old great-uncle Bill used to say!) I am custodian of his journals when he was a PoW in Stalag VIIA (I may have mentioned this before) and his fantasy menus compared to the rations he was getting, make interesting reading.

Didn't realise Chorizo was pork - it doesn't say on the tin. Just as well I'm not kosher then eh?

Didn't realise all that about Baxter, Anna.

[Anna]

Didn't realise Chorizo was pork - it doesn't say on the tin. Just as well I'm not kosher then eh?

Well to be honest S_A, just pretend Chorizo is another word for paprika and then you don't need to seek Absolution in the Confessional!! And, it is truly delicious and ... and, I wish I hadn't said anything! And, besides, you eat sardines, so, take a bit of fish here, take a bit of pig there, and call yourself a Demi-Veg, Schemi-Veg? Oy Vey!

[BBMmk2]

Well to be honest S_A, just pretend Chorizo is another word for paprika and then you don't need to seek Absolution in the Confessional!! And, it is truly delicious and ... and, I wish I hadn't said anything! And, besides, you eat sardines, so, take a bit of fish here, take a bit of pig there, and call yourself a Demi-Veg, Schemi-Veg? Oy Vey!

Lovely sunny day today but quite cold and rather windy early on!

[amateur51]

Thanks mercia, that looks interesting, will make a note to watch.

When I got up at 6am this morning (!) it was such a clear sky and the stars were burning bright. Not much of a frost but black ice. The Black Mountains were truly white and another lovely sunny day rising to 6°, dropping back sharply now to under 3° Not sure is we have any here from Norfolk but it seems they had total white-out for a while today in some parts and that's about it for expected snowfall but worrying forecast for Wales Friday with projected high accumulations. A friend's primroses are out and I noticed today some catkins and snowdrops so Spring will soon be here.

Report in the papers that supermarkets seeing a surge of buying of root vegs, braising steak, stewing lamb and sausages as we all settle down to warming, filling, meals Yumptious!

Great post Anna! signs of Spring and news of yummy grub - woo-hoo!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Earlier mistiness has now lifted into amorphous stratus, just about being penetrated by the sun - -1 C, no wind to speak of.

Comment was made earlier about misty conditions allegedly prevailing at the site of the Vauxhall helicopted crash at 8 this morning. Watching a newsflash an hour ago that showed YouTube footage taken at the scene, and presumably CCTV from a high building near the gyratory showing the road still on fire, I have to say the visibility appeared pretty clear to me. An air traffic expert in Dundee was brought on, saying that the majority of commercial helicopter flights, of which this appeared to be one, pass up the course of the River Thames, so as to avoid noise complaints - in which case the pilot, who we learn perished, would have been somewhat off course. Someone else was saying that a ban on 'copters flying across central London might have to be considered - which would make sense, in view of the profusion of tall cranes visible from up here on a clearer day.

[salymap]

Earlier mistiness has now lifted into amorphous stratus, just about being penetrated by the sun - -1 C, no wind to speak of.

Comment was made earlier about misty conditions allegedly prevailing at the site of the Vauxhall helicopted crash at 8 this morning. Watching a newsflash an hour ago that showed YouTube footage taken at the scene, and presumably CCTV from a high building near the gyratory showing the road still on fire, I have to say the visibility appeared pretty clear to me. An air traffic expert in Dundee was brought on, saying that the majority of commercial helicopter flights, of which this appeared to be one, pass up the course of the River Thames, so as to avoid noise complaints - in which case the pilot, who we learn perished, would have been somewhat off course. Someone else was saying that a ban on 'copters flying across central London might have to be considered - which would make sense, in view of the profusion of tall cranes visible from up here on a clearer day.

Thanks for that S-A Sounds a terrible accident- I must listen to the 1 pm news soon. We get a lot of helicopters flying round and about here and imagine they are checking on the motorways or traffic

They also land occasionally in our little green space across the road from me and kids get a great thrill when this happens. It is usually to pick up an injured person from an ambulance and fly them to a suitable hospital.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

bbbbrrrrrrrrrr in middle iglooland and getting worse ie colder .....

[BBMmk2]

Going to work today, it was minus 5C!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Going to work today, it was minus 5C!!

Minus 4 at 7:00 am in the Pennines - reached the balmy heights of minus 2 by lunchtime.

[BBMmk2]

With probably the heaviest frost of this winter so far?