Stormy Weather

[salymap]

Pit Heaps anton, you can't see them from your extensive grounds surrounding your mansion, can you?
Sunny but very cold in Kent and the daffs are very slow in appearing. I am afraid our council gardeners have mown them down with their 8ft wide modern mowers.

[antongould]

Where I live has one museum which is the last pit that closed. Washington New Town a Milton Keynes of the NE was made up of about 6/7 pit villages which progress "knocked down" - beautiful day nonetheless!

[amateur51]

A breezier milder start here in NW2 and some sunshine too but more cloud than yesterday.

Spent the weekend in Glocs where there were snowdrops & daffs aplenty.

Off to Royal Academy of Arts today for the British Sculpture exhibition courtesy of a friend who is a Friend, if you see what I mean

Let's hope it stays dry.

How are things in other parts of this sceptred Isle this morning?

[Curalach]

Awoke to a light dusting of snow this morning. It's bright and sunny but a cold NW wind will doubtless bring further precipitation.
A reminder that winter hasn't finished with us yet!

[salymap]

Morning all, I thought I heard the s..w word but hoped it was my tinnitus fooling me, as it does. No. March can be a treacherous month, although April is the cruellest, according to Eliot, {I hope ]

[Eudaimonia]

Funny you mention it--"April is the Cruelest Month" was the working title of the Tennessee Williams play "Spring Storm" featured as the R3 drama this week. Did you hear it? It's still available on the I-player. Absolutely devastating...highly recommended!

DRAMA ON 3: SPRING STORM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z65gc

By Tennessee Williams. A radio adaptation of the Royal and Derngate, Northampton production, broadcast to mark the centenary of the playwright's birth. "Heavenly Critchfield has almost everything a young woman could desire, but when she's forced to decide between respectable suitor Arthur and handsome, wild lover Dick, her actions cause a chain of consequences that tear their lives apart."

[salymap]

Thanks Euda, S_A and I are getting seriously worried about your non-appearance on your page. Will look that up.

It's turned so cold here, miserable day. Take care, sal

[Eudaimonia]

Oh hey now! Don't you worry about me...I'll be up to par soon. Bad weather and too much "soap opera" from my cast of characters has left me feeling a little quiet, that's all. Here, have some Percy Grainger--cheers!

Percy Grainger's 'In Dahomey (Cakewalk Smasher)'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgwPpb42kM&feature=player_detailpage

[salymap]

Morning all, Is there really snow in the North and Scotland.? What a dirty trick of the weather after a few spring-like days. Grey and gloomy so far in Kent but that I can cope with. Keep warm.

[antongould]

no snow in this secluded corner of the North salymap! It's now getting out nice after a rainy start - it looks a bit "raw" though. Still I have my walk with Schumann's Spring Symphony to look forward to!

[Curalach]

No snow here this morning. Strong NW winds with horizontal rain showers blowing the cobwebs away.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... even though we have a blue sky, somewhat milder temperature and a blowy wind in the middle kingdom today the old adage about casting clouts and May buds always proves it's truth round here, we can get a pile of bad weather yet .... but the Japanese Almond Blossom tree in my back yard is showing ...

[salymap]

Morning on this slightly less windy day here in the SE. Why do the Beeb keep mentioning snow in Scotland and the North and you are all basking in hot sunshine?And it was DanielCorbett this am,my very favourite weather-man. He's better on TV though!

[mangerton]

Saly, it's a lovely sunny morning here, but cold. There was frost on my car windscreen an hour ago. No snow yet, but it is expected, apparently, "as we work our way through the day".

[Nick Armstrong]

Not sure it's weather strictly speaking, but it's rough, very very rough, down in Japan and around the Pacific today. First time I've seen a warning like this on the google homepage: http://www.google.co.uk/