Stormy Weather

[mangerton]

Got up this morning (no, it's not a blues) went out and cleared about an inch of snow off my car. The roads were all clear, though, having been well treated. Isn't oor cooncil wonderful?

It's been sunny all day, and the temp currently is about 3º C.

[teamsaint]

Lovely here in South Wilts too. Sunny, cool, lovely day for a stroll.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

About a quarter-inch of snowfall overnight and into the morning today in the Pennines - but mostly meltedoff the pavements and roads by Noon. Very chilly - thermals really needed on my walk this afternoon - but some sunshine to brighten the mood. Gloomering over as I write.

[Nick Armstrong]

Gloomering

[Anna]

No gloomering over here ferney - and I hope it doesn't because this evening Comet Lovejoy is passing 8° west-southwest of the Pleiades (or up and right across from Orion!) Just around midnight is supposedly best, not many days left to see it.

[Serial_Apologist]

No gloomering over here ferney - and I hope it doesn't because this evening Comet Lovejoy is passing 8° west-southwest of the Pleiades (or up and right across from Orion!) Just around midnight is supposedly best, not many days left to see it.

I taken it then that, as with many West End productions these days, this turns out to be a short run.

I'm trrying to make most of the latest govt advice on daily exercise. Yesterday I did the, in both senses, de rigueur 20 minuter around the block; today my stroll covered about 3 miles in an hour and a quarter, despite lacking energy. I wold prefer cycling, but it's not as much fun when wearing gloves, which are cumbersome and prevent sufficient grip for control purposes.

[teamsaint]

5.00 PM here.
Vestiges of light.
Hurrah !!


nothing for S-A to analyse really, though. !


Incidentally, these NHS recommended exercises are great, involve no gear or daft Youtube videos, and can be done in the privacy of your own home !!

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/Tenminuteworkouts.aspx

[Petrushka]

I taken it then that, as with many West End productions these days, this turns out to be a short run.

I'm trrying to make most of the latest govt advice on daily exercise. Yesterday I did the, in both senses, de rigueur 20 minuter around the block; today my stroll covered about 3 miles in an hour and a quarter, despite lacking energy. I wold prefer cycling, but it's not as much fun when wearing gloves, which are cumbersome and prevent sufficient grip for control purposes.

Judging from last week's newspaper headlines on walking 20 minutes in order to live longer, I expect to make it to 500 at least. I've never driven a car and wherever bus or train has deposited me in my 55 years of school and work it's meant at least a 20 minute walk, sometimes a good deal more, there and back. Hence a feeling of smugness that the brisk 20 minute walk is what I've done for most of my life from school onwards. Where I work at present involves (there and back from home to railway station to office), four lots of a 20 minute walk. My doctor was impressed anyway.

[BBMmk2]

Overcast and cold!!

[Don Petter]

No frostier than previous nights - So much for 'coldest of the year'.

[eighthobstruction]

Just cold enough to make muddy puddles freeze....a welcome joy to be scooting over ruts, rather than sloshing through....

[Anna]

-3° here, so not exceptional and a moderate frost (luckily the day had been so dry and sunny icing on roads/pavements wasn't a problem) Unfortunately it had clouded over and at 11.30pm it was getting misty so comet watching wasn't on. Today clear blue skies and extremely sunny.
Talking about walking, a 19 year old has been airlifted from Snowdon with broken arm after slipping on ice and snow - whilst walking wearing trainers (!) and last weekend another teenager rescued at Llanberis with hypothermia after walking in plimsolls, jeans and a leather jacket. Honestly, when will people learn that the mountains are dangerous!

[Don Petter]

Sounds like it's the trainers and plimsoles that are dangerous, not the mountains.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nothing more dangerous than being a teenaged boy - that lethal combination of being ignorant and believing yourself immortal!

[Anna]

Nothing more dangerous than being a teenaged boy - that lethal combination of being ignorant and believing yourself immortal!

And what A Relief and A Blessing it is To Us All that when teenage boys turn into men they lose those attributes completely and turn into such well rounded individuals ....

It got to 5.3° by 1.00pm - now dropping like a stone and it's 2° Someone said that there's no such thing as cold weather, just inappropriate clothing!