Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Not a daff in sight here either (it's so cold they'd be daft to come out......) but the crocuses are now in full bloom.

Anna, you keep wearing that duffel coat; these Liverpudlians are nuts.

Bbm, I have it on good authority that spring is on June 14th this year. Summer will be celebrated on June 15th. There will be no autumn, and winter will resume on June 16th, just in time for my holiday.

Hmmm, Anna, I was hoping it might begin on June 9th!!

[Petrushka]

Wasn't it Lord Byron who observed that the English winter ends in July only to recommence in August?

[BBMmk2]

We blame Lord Byron then!!

Heres one for Cali, 'we have that yellow round thing in the sky today!!' :)

[Nick Armstrong]

Heres one for Cali, 'we have that yellow round thing in the sky today!!' :)

[Anna]

Hmmm, Anna, I was hoping it might begin on June 9th!!

Is that a hint that it's your birthday then?
Well, Spring seems to have arrived here, a heady 9.4 our weather station is reporting and I have (shock, horror!) opened the windows. So it seems there is no excuse for me not to do outside jobs tomorrow ....... <deep sigh emoticon>
Mangerton, if I may be so bold, where are you heading off for your hols on June 16th?
Edit: I caught a programme this morning about the Border Reivers and how the word 'blackmail' originated from them!!!

[BBMmk2]

Is that a hint that it's your birthday then?
Well, Spring seems to have arrived here, a heady 9.4 our weather station is reporting and I have (shock, horror!) opened the windows. So it seems there is no excuse for me not to do outside jobs tomorrow ....... <deep sigh emoticon>
Mangerton, if I may be so bold, where are you heading off for your hols on June 16th?
Edit: I caught a programme this morning about the Border Reivers and how the word 'blackmail' originated from them!!!

:)!!

AAh well,these putside jobs do have to be done at somepoint, Anna!

We have actually been out for sometime time today, only now just being back in.

[mangerton]

Is that a hint that it's your birthday then?
Well, Spring seems to have arrived here, a heady 9.4 our weather station is reporting and I have (shock, horror!) opened the windows. So it seems there is no excuse for me not to do outside jobs tomorrow ....... <deep sigh emoticon>
Mangerton, if I may be so bold, where are you heading off for your hols on June 16th?
Edit: I caught a programme this morning about the Border Reivers and how the word 'blackmail' originated from them!!!

Well, as I prophesied, it's been a lovely day here in Dundee, 8° and brilliant sunshine, so much so that after work I stopped and put my salt-caked car through a car wash. I haven't yet dared to open my windows, but I'll have to soon, as they could do with a serious clean.

Which programme was this, please? I must see if I can watch/listen again. Yes, the word "blackmail" is interesting. The Border Reivers were Fine Chaps, as at least one other member of this forum and I could tell you. The definitive book on the subject is George MacDonald Fraser's The Steel Bonnets.

My hols this year will be another of my cathedral/preserved railway crawls. I'm starting in Canterbury which I have never visited. I have no fixed plans after that.

[Anna]

Which programme was this, please? I must see if I can watch/listen again. Yes, the word "blackmail" is interesting. The Border Reivers were Fine Chaps, as at least one other member of this forum and I could tell you. The definitive book on the subject is George .

It was, well, I watched while preparing to go out, not really concentrating, them Border Reivers - Fine Chaps? Yes, probably. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078ycx

[amateur51]

Isn't Friday Ammy's pie + pint and free concert day? One long round of pleasure for him ......
Miserable day here, it was only just 1.0 when I left this morning and again, wind increased to cut-your-legs-off-at-the-knees syndrome . My sister, in County Durham, is so fed up having entered her sixth month of snow and fields still ice-rinks where standing water has frozen. None of her daffs have dared open yet!
Liverpool must have its own micro-climate, has anyone seem the Aintree Ladies Day outfits online - all bare arms and skimpiness - not a fleece-lined Paddington Bear duffel coat in sight!

I've been to wedding in East Yorkshire as I'm sure I've told some correspondents on here. It was held in the local register office and was as nice and relaxed while being suitably formal as you could wish for. And all over in reasonable time, no tedious chats from some priest about the bible being the maker's handbook, etc

[Mr Pee]

Since this thread concerns stormy weather, I thought I would upload some pics of a little storm that hit The Shetland Islands back in February:-









Now THAT is stormy weather!!!

[EdgeleyRob]

Blimey,you're not wrong.

Lovely day here,plenty of BBM's yellow round thing today.

[Nick Armstrong]

Since this thread concerns stormy weather, I thought I would upload some pics of a little storm that hit The Shetland Islands back in February

And yet I had an email from Edinburgh Airport on Friday from friends who had spent a week in Orkney - their Easter consisted of:

"implausibly stunning weather... Much beach action, sandcastles etc. And, pleasingly, a sighting of four killer whales."

[Beef Oven]

Since this thread concerns stormy weather, I thought I would upload some pics of a little storm that hit The Shetland Islands back in February:-









Now THAT is stormy weather!!!

Good grief, yes stormy weather indeed!

Bit slow on here tonight eh?

[Nick Armstrong]

[mangerton]

It's been snowing here for the last hour or so - not heavily, but snowing, nevertheless.