Stormy Weather

[mercia]

serves me right for taking an interest

[JFLL]

That's a lot for London but I daresay it'll be headlines, the press being very Metrocentral, but you are I think quite high where you are, I expect Cali only has a couple of centimetres which will soon disappear.

Several inches today in SE3 – the falling snow looked quite thin as it came down, but it carried on for most of the daylight hours. Must be about six inches of it now. Greenwich Park was like a Lowry painting, with almost every child in the borough seemingly tobogganing, and dogs racing around manically at the wonder of it all.

[BBMmk2]

Been at the bleach, BBM?

Is everything all white with everyone else?

Thought it appropriate :)

[EdgeleyRob]

No snow today in the Manchester area and the stufff that fell previously has pretty much disappeared.
Bitterly cold though.
Take care Saly and Anna, and indeed anyone else having problems with the weather.

[salymap]

serves me right for taking an interest

I am grateful for your interest mercia, I just thought I'd tell you that I had supplies.

[Anna]

No snow today in the Manchester area and the stufff that fell previously has pretty much disappeared.
Bitterly cold though.
Take care Saly and Anna, and indeed anyone else having problems with the weather.

Do you know Rob, having been stuck in, I am going to have a telly evening and watch my first ever Call the Midwife I shall expect either a) to be reduced to weeping copiously, or, b) turn the tv off and return to my book!

[BBMmk2]

Did you know that Sir Paul MacCartney's wife was a midwife, roundablout the time this series is situated!

[mangerton]

I hope everyone is OK in this continuing bad weather. I see my part of the country has an amber warning and a yellow warning for snow. Not sure which is worse, but they seem to expect about 10 cm, or possibly more. I expect inland and higher areas will get that, but we'll see. It certainly doesn't appear to be as bad as the 1963 winter we saw on TV yesterday.

Delicious lunch at miss m's today. It was a joint effort, featuring a pheasant. After years of my expert guidance and tutelage, miss m is an excellent cook.

I'm now going to watch last night's Borgen.

[Lateralthinking1]

I hope everyone is OK in this continuing bad weather. I see my part of the country has an amber warning and a yellow warning for snow. Not sure which is worse, but they seem to expect about 10 cm, or possibly more. I expect inland and higher areas will get that, but we'll see. It certainly doesn't appear to be as bad as the 1963 winter we saw on TV yesterday.

Delicious lunch at miss m's today. It was a joint effort, featuring a pheasant. After years of my expert guidance and tutelage, miss m is an excellent cook.

I'm now going to watch last night's Borgen.

I did a six mile circular walk on the hills between 1.30am and 4am this morning. It wasn't ridiculously cold or particularly difficult underfoot once I had travelled some distance. Few cars but the ones travelling at 60 mph rather than 30 mph weren't helpful.

Congratulations to Croydon Council again for clearing the snow from every part of the borough, including all of the millionaires' properties on the back roads of Purley, apart from in a one mile radius of my home. I wish I had taken my camera. We all realise here that being six miles from Taberner House places us in the same category as Finland but we do pay exactly the same taxes.

[BBMmk2]

AM LT?

Had a lovely winter warmer dinner this evening of steak and mushroom puddong! Lovely! Washed down with Sherpherd neame Master Brew 4.0%

[Lateralthinking1]

AM LT?

Had a lovely winter warmer dinner this evening of steak and mushroom puddong! Lovely! Washed down with Sherpherd neame Master Brew 4.0%

That sounds excellent BBM. Yes - in the early hours. I am having a pork chop tonight and will walk to Tescos at a normal time tomorrow. That is fairly local - 35 minutes and outside Greater London. I would say that we now have up to 6 inches of snow.

[mercia]

Did you know that Sir Paul MacCartney's wife was a midwife, roundablout the time this series is situated!

might you perhaps mean mother rather than wife ?

[BBMmk2]

might you perhaps mean mother rather than wife ?

Yes I do!

[BBMmk2]

might you perhaps mean mother rather than wife ?

Yes I do!

[Anna]

Very rapid thaw here, temperature reached 3.3° at 2pm and it's been lovely blue sky and sunny after misty start and the countryside looks very pretty. Council have done a wonderful job with pavements in town, not a scrap of snow or ice to be seen, however they still refuse to grit/plough part of the bus route thus leaving some frail elderly people who live there and only walk with the aid of sticks marooned. I had correspondence with them during the 2010 snow and they merely said they would put it to Committee ..... the bus evidently did try to get up there this morning but had to reverse back down again to the main road. Popping into supermarket lunchtime there is practically nil stock of green vegs (I bought the last January King!) It seems another band of snow will hit S. Wales in the early hours.
How is everyone else getting on?