Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A You have just won a prize as the 10,000th post on Mahlerei's thread.

I think an invitation to ams's party will shortly be in thw post

Well the 10,001st in fact - which inaugurates the new millennium here.

I used tohave a lolly mould, a plastic one sided lolly thing and you were even provided with little sticks. You just filled it with juice etc and froze it.

It would need to be cocktail sticks to be the right scale for the ice cubes I was thinking of!

[EdgeleyRob]

Damp and grey this morning,followed by dampness and greyness this afternoon,now damp and dark.

[Anna]

Damp and grey this morning,followed by dampness and greyness this afternoon,now damp and dark.

It's called Autumn .... horrible. I wish I was a bear and could hibernate .......

[Nick Armstrong]

There I was, setting off to do some shopping for a dish I'm cooking for Sunday when I realised that it was just starting to rain. Then I realised that I hadn't got my shopping list. Nor my phone

Do pay attention, 007 !

[Nick Armstrong]

Damp and grey this morning,followed by dampness and greyness this afternoon,now damp and dark.

Yes, had drizzly cycle rides in to work and out again... At last BBC Weather got their act together about the rain this evening: they said that greyness and drizzle would give way to out-and-out rain between 6 and 7 - so I structured the day to arrive home just in time (known in some quarters as P.O.E.T.S. ) to beat that - and did so. About 5 minutes after getting in, it started to tip it down

Such a shame that this weekend's scheduled to be wet all the time, as most of Hyde Park has been given over to the World Triathlon Final.... My ride round two sides of the park was unhindered the past two mornings, and it ran alongside the cycle track - exciting to be riding alongside the athletes, riding just the other side of the barriers - the juniors yesterday, the seniors this morning - fearsomely fit and clad in futuristic streamlined bike-helmets. What a pity they had to go half speed on the drenched track. (It's on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon - maybe in a forecast break in the weekend deluge...)

[mangerton]

Here in the frozen north it looks quite good. 13ºC, sunshine and blue skies. I think we get the rain tomorrow.

Off into town shortly to visit the optician.

[Pabmusic]

It's 31 degrees (88 F) and the humidity is 71%. But apparently, it feels like 37 degrees (99 F). I'd agree.

[eighthobstruction]

Cloudless blue sky....

[BBMmk2]

Hope the weather holds! Band job this afternoon!

[salymap]

It's been pouring here since quite early.

I got the required basics, meat etc, and an enormous Apple Danish to cheer myself up.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's been pouring here since quite early.

I got the required basics, meat etc, and an enormous Apple Danish to cheer myself up.

More like drizzle around here - not that we don't need it; but temps are not expected to exceed mid-October norms for the next week. End of the salads then...

Has it crossed anyone else's mind how much Danish Pastries resemble aerial photographs of hurricanes?

[salymap]

More like drizzle around here - not that we don't need it; but temps are not expected to exceed mid-October norms for the next week. End of the salads then...

Has it crossed anyone else's mind how much Danish Pastries resemble aerial photographs of hurricanes?

That's why it gave me the burbs then, or perhaps I gobbled it.1.50 and not as good as Patisserie Valerie in Soho

[Serial_Apologist]

That's why it gave me the burbs then, or perhaps I gobbled it.1.50 and not as good as Patisserie Valerie in Soho

Hey, I know! P'raps if you'd sat on the record player turntable while eating it, and pressed the "play" button, the record player would have spun around and you would have stayed put!

(I must try this St Sprees dry sherry again sometime)

[salymap]

S_A, ever helpful. TAKE CARE, sonny.

[Anna]

Has it crossed anyone else's mind how much Danish Pastries resemble aerial photographs of hurricanes?

Now you mention it --- No!
Disappointing day, more cloud than blue, only just now unbroken sunshine, chill wind this morning and only got to just over 17° (might be a decent sunset?) It really tipped it down for hours yesterday evening but I still think that I'll miss the worst of tomorrow's downpours. (I do a chicken/butter bean dish like Ams will be serving tomorrow but I bung a whole (not chopped and with stalk) red chilli in it for a bit of background heat - today, as I went past the butcher he was putting a tray of freshly cooked ham hocks in the window - couldn't resist, I'll wrap it careful he says, they're just out of the boiler. It was only £2.75, think I'll have it with a cauli cheese, real Autumn food! Then, probably make some pea or lentil and ham soup for tomorrow's lunch)