Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

but C4 does have iplayer.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od

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)

Chuffed to hear it!

[Petrushka]

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

I think it was John Mortimer who said that in old age it seems like you are eating breakfast every five minutes.

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od

Chuffed to hear it!

Picture this: a notice on the Tube in which management are appealing for Underground staff, over which someone has graffitoed, "MORE WOMEN TRAIN DRIVERS" - underneath which, someone else has written, "A woman's right to choo-choos".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Picture this: a notice on the Tube in which management are appealing for Underground staff, over which someone has graffitoed, "MORE WOMEN TRAIN DRIVERS" - underneath which, someone else has written, "A woman's right to choo-choos".

[greenilex]

Hard frost in central So'ton earlier, but it's bright now. Should make us all chirpier while it lasts.

[salymap]

I hope Santa doesn't attempt to climb down my living room chimney this year For the second time recently men have been filming and taking photos as there was a serious fall of bricks inside the chimney last week.
Not a comfortable thing to have hanging over one at Christmas. And if it's just repointing, I've got to find someone good.

Lovely sunny frosty day though to make us chirpy

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

mist in the middle kingdom and most nippy ....

trust your repairs are affordable salymap! i have a wonky relief valve on my boiler that is now menacing to freeze this winter

[amateur51]

Picture this: a notice on the Tube in which management are appealing for Underground staff, over which someone has graffitoed, "MORE WOMEN TRAIN DRIVERS" - underneath which, someone else has written, "A woman's right to choo-choos".

Brilliant!

[Lateralthinking1]

I wonder if anyone else shares the following. When the temperature is within the generally accepted range, i.e. 7 C at this time of year, 20 C in July, I seem to have an instinctive knowing of what it is at any given moment. I check the thermometer, and I'm pretty much accurate. It feels like 3 C right now out there. Sometimes I get it wrong: 25 C with high humidity in summer can feel like 30 C; a couple of days ago 8 C felt much colder than it actually was due to strong wind chill. I make exceptions for very low temperatures. Below - 4 C it just seems damned cold; I can't distinguish between the "feel" of - 4 C and -10 C. Yet for some odd reason, subjectively there feels to be a big difference between + 15 C and + 18 C. Presumably the closer external temperatures get to body temperatures, the greater the difference experienced, but I have a suspicion that we find it more easy to distinguish within the more familiar temperature ranges.

I have it with time as I don't wear a watch. I can say what the time is to within five minutes of accuracy. The only exception to the rule is when I have odd sleeping times. Then I can be many hours out.

Your weather station five miles to the south. Would that be Kenley? If so, that is virtually here. You should raise it by several degrees for your area. As I write, we still have thick frost in our gardens.

I have now heard in the media that we are to have the worst winter in 100, 20, 12 and 6 years. Temperatures will be -15, -10 and -5. I am sure it is all nonsense. To date, we have had 24 hours of light snow on the ground this winter and the weather is set to improve until at least the 16th December.

If we can get through this month without further snow, it will in truth be one of the best two years in five for October-December inclusive. I accept though that might be a big "if". Any thoughts?

[Anna]

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)

Anna, all the best people do! I shall be watching too.

I hadn't realised it would be about narrow gauge so it was mainly about Talyllyn and Ffestiniog and the restorations since the 1940s. Lovely old footage and history but what amazed me was that many of the volunteers at that time were only 14 (and many still involved now) Health & Safety wouldn't now allow a bunch of 14 year old lads setting off to Wales to sleep in ramshackle barns, break rocks, ride locos, and be there when blasting through granite rockfaces and all without compulsory hardhats and hi-vis jackets!! A totally different (innocent) age I think. Next week is about standard gauge.

I hope Santa doesn't attempt to climb down my living room chimney this year For the second time recently men have been filming and taking photos as there was a serious fall of bricks inside the chimney last week. Not a comfortable thing to have hanging over one at Christmas. And if it's just repointing, I've got to find someone good.

Best wishes that it can be fixed saly before we get really cold weather, didn't you have problems with your gas fire not long ago as well? Are you able to use it? Hope you're keeping warm.
When I left early this morning it was still about -3, very icy. I bought myself a new duffel style coat, fleece lined, so glad I did, I thought I might look at bit too agricultural but I was toasty warm!

[Flay]

When I left early this morning it was still about -3, very icy. I bought myself a new duffel style coat, fleece lined, so glad I did, I thought I might look at bit too agricultural but I was toasty warm!

I'm sure you looked lovely in it, Anna

[mangerton]

I hadn't realised it would be about narrow gauge so it was mainly about Talyllyn and Ffestiniog and the restorations since the 1940s. Lovely old footage and history but what amazed me was that many of the volunteers at that time were only 14 (and many still involved now) Health & Safety wouldn't now allow a bunch of 14 year old lads setting off to Wales to sleep in ramshackle barns, break rocks, ride locos, and be there when blasting through granite rockfaces and all without compulsory hardhats and hi-vis jackets!! A totally different (innocent) age I think. Next week is about standard gauge.

Yes, it was a fascinating programme, and as you say all about a different, innocent, age. I was at the Ffestiniog five years ago, so it was interesting to see it being reconstructed, and to see how the loop was planned. saly, I think you said you'd visited. Did you see the programme? If not there's a repeat I think tomorrow at 10.00pm. Next week they're showing the Severn Valley and the Keighley and Worth Valley, both of which I have visited.

Best wishes that it can be fixed saly before we get really cold weather, didn't you have problems with your gas fire not long ago as well? Are you able to use it? Hope you're keeping warm.
When I left early this morning it was still about -3, very icy. I bought myself a new duffel style coat, fleece lined, so glad I did, I thought I might look at bit too agricultural but I was toasty warm!

Yes saly, do keep warm. Bitter here today, though sunny. Duffel coats are a brilliant invention. It was my school uniform coat, and I kept it for years after I left.

[Anna]

Duffel coats are a brilliant invention. It was my school uniform coat, and I kept it for years after I left.

I think mine is a wee bit more stylish than your school uniform ....

I'm sure you looked lovely in it, Anna

Funnily enough Flay, mine is also navy blue, just like Paddington's!! However, my new Winter hat is not like his but a retro crocheted beanie/cloche with a fetching crochet flower on the side. I look rather like a 70s drippy hippy crossed with someone on an Aldermarston march!!
Ah hae mae ain individual style ye ken?

[salymap]

Thanks for mention Anna etc. Reports hav been sent to insurer re gas fire but I don't and now mustn't use it as there is so much debris in the fireplace breast or space. I have central heating so if that works I'm okay.

I still remember the excitment when I wrote about the Blaenau Festiniog railway ride I had in the cab and the driver, Bill Hoole, was well known. I mustlook for that thread -it wasn't so very long ago.

[Anna]

I still remember the excitment when I wrote about the Blaenau Festiniog railway ride I had in the cab and the driver, Bill Hoole, was well known. I mustlook for that thread -it wasn't so very long ago.

Oh yes, saly, if you can find it, that would be wonderful! It was, watching the programme, quite inspirational, their dedication.