Stormy Weather

[salymap]

I've just put the big bins out for tomorrow. It must be freezing and rather windy too. If this is the warm weekend, I'm not looking forward to going to the local shops tomorrow.

[mangerton]

Sun's back here and it's mild for the time of year. It's to get colder from tomorrow, apparently.

Bucket day here tomorrow too, saly.

[Anna]

It's not cold, 8° but black clouds keeping rolling in and then rolling away. It's recycling day tomorrow here too, glass/tins/plastic/paper/cardboard Tuesday is kitchen and garden waste. Regular bins get collected fortnightly, I find, as everything is recycled, it's only necessary to put the bin out once a month.

Marthe, I do empathise with you re shopping malls. Luckily there are none here easily accessible but when I stay with family in Lancs they think I enjoy being dragged off to The Trafford Centre ....... They cannot get their heads around the notion that I'm not a consumer, I have no wish to traipse from Gap to Next to .... back of beyond (well, that's what it feels like also having had to endure a McDonalds or similar ......)

[Serial_Apologist]

It's not cold, 8° but black clouds keeping rolling in and then rolling away. It's recycling day tomorrow here too, glass/tins/plastic/paper/cardboard Tuesday is kitchen and garden waste. Regular bins get collected fortnightly, I find, as everything is recycled, it's only necessary to put the bin out once a month.

Marthe, I do empathise with you re shopping malls. Luckily there are none here easily accessible but when I stay with family in Lancs they think I enjoy being dragged off to The Trafford Centre ....... They cannot get their heads around the notion that I'm not a consumer, I have no wish to traipse from Gap to Next to .... back of beyond (well, that's what it feels like also having had to endure a McDonalds or similar ......)

Same weather as here.

Still haven't made it to Tate Modern for my Xmas cards and calendar - has to be tomorrow as I've got 3 to send abroad. Toying with getting Janette Winterson's new book for ex-gf.

[Anna]

Same weather as here.
Still haven't made it to Tate Modern for my Xmas cards and calendar - has to be tomorrow as I've got 3 to send abroad. Toying with getting Janette Winterson's new book for ex-gf.

Well, S_A, all I can say is - as yet I do not have a 2013 calendar and, if you think your ex-gf is not worthy of the book .............
Oh, come on, I have my own barometer, how more desirable do I have to be .... Oh, I see, I don't have an outside thermometer and hydrogemeter? .....
Edit: only joking S-A, don't look so worried!

[Petrushka]

Here's another common myth: "It's too cold to snow".

I've often noticed how suddenly warm it goes just as snow starts to fall. I remember once being on a school football pitch in the 1960s when this phenomenum occurred. We all noticed it and the schoolmaster explained about the warm and cold frontal systems. Since then, I've watched out for it happening.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, S_A, all I can say is - as yet I do not have a 2013 calendar and, if you think your ex-gf is not worthy of the book .............
Oh, come on, I have my own barometer, how more desirable do I have to be .... Oh, I see, I don't have an outside thermometer and hydrogemeter? .....
Edit: only joking S-A, don't look so worried!

Ex gf seems to have "got religion" and says she doesn't like Janette Winterson, and anyway not to bother thinking of books she might like as she can always get them from the library.

It's funny how people can change, isn't it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's funny how people can change, isn't it.

See what happens when people move out of your sphere of influence, S_A! Think on!

[BBMmk2]

Is'nt it strange, how, or so it seems, as you get older, the weekends get longer?

Well looks like a lovely day has been had. Lots of sunshinem, thank goodness!

[salymap]

I find as I get older the birthdays get nearer to each other. Very scary.

[Anna]

Just thought I would mention, tomorrow C4 8pm, programme about extremes of weather in 2012 called "Is our weather getting worse?" Might be of interest to weather watchers here. Sunny, bright, supposedly about 4.8C now but felt bitterly cold outside all day, quite a pretty sunset developing. I got my first Christmas card on Saturday, very nice cheerful one.
(I cannot find it now but there's interesting research about what the subject matter of the Christmas cards you choose say about your psychological profile)

[Serial_Apologist]

Just thought I would mention, tomorrow C4 8pm, programme about extremes of weather in 2012 called "Is our weather getting worse?" Might be of interest to weather watchers here. Sunny, bright, supposedly about 4.8C now but felt bitterly cold outside all day, quite a pretty sunset developing. I got my first Christmas card on Saturday, very nice cheerful one.
(I cannot find it now but there's interesting research about what the subject matter of the Christmas cards you choose say about your psychological profile)

I know, Anna, and because I am duty-bound to go out I shall ruddy well miss it, unless CH 4 has some iPlayer equivalent. There's also an "unmissable" programme on BBC2 about Cuba at 9. That'll probably be iPlayable.

One relatively good bit of news is that the cold weather now only looks likely to last until Thursday, when the wind will pick up from a more southerly direction, avoiding the chance of a "snowdown" between continental arctic and maritime polar Atlantic air types of the 1963 kind, but heralding what could be serious gales on Friday.

Anyone interested in my latest voyage might like to go to the Buildings That Shouldn't Have Been Built thread.

[Anna]

I know, Anna, and because I am duty-bound to go out I shall ruddy well miss it, unless CH 4 has some iPlayer equivalent. There's also an "unmissable" programme on BBC2 about Cuba at 9. That'll probably be iPlayable.
One relatively good bit of news is that the cold weather now only looks likely to last until Thursday, when the wind will pick up from a more southerly direction, avoiding the chance of a "snowdown" between continental arctic and maritime polar Atlantic air types of the 1963 kind, but heralding what could be serious gales on Friday.
Anyone interested in my latest voyage might like to go to the Buildings That Shouldn't Have Been Built thread.

I shall miss the programme as well, but C4 does have iplayer. There's also a programme on BBC4 9pm tonight about the golden age of steam trains ...... (there is no hope for me I fear, but I do love steam trains)
Have just read your latest voyage ... no cycle ride is wasted, think of the vast cardio-vascular benefits you are storing up!! Shame about the Tate cards though when you had set your heart on them.

[Nick Armstrong]

(there is no hope for me I fear, but I do love steam trains)

[mangerton]

[QUOTE=Anna;234112]I shall miss the programme as well, but C4 does have iplayer. There's also a programme on BBC4 9pm tonight about the golden age of steam trains ...... (there is no hope for me I fear, but I do love steam trains)
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Anna, all the best people do! I shall be watching too.