Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Black Agnes

... clutching half-a-pound of Lurpak in one hand and a spatula in the other, and shrieking that traditional Welsh war-cry "HISPI !!!!!HISPIIIIII !!!!!!!!"

[Anna]

..,clutching half-a-pound of Lurpak in one hand and a spatula in the other, and shrieking that traditional Welsh war-cry "HISPI !!!!!HISPIIIIII !!!!!!!!"

Oh, for goodness sake Caliban, you've never forgotten being caught out by that Hispi episode in the restaurant have you?

Mangerton will, I am sure, know all about Black Agnes!!

On topic: Lovely sunny day, not as warm as yesterday, Westerly wind really strong and quite chilly, rain promised tonight but sunshine again tomorrow. And I must shortly think what to have for dinner.

[mangerton]

Oh, for goodness sake Caliban, you've never forgotten being caught out by that Hispi episode in the restaurant have you?

Mangerton will, I am sure, know all about Black Agnes!!

On topic: Lovely sunny day, not as warm as yesterday, Westerly wind really strong and quite chilly, rain promised tonight but sunshine again tomorrow. And I must shortly think what to have for dinner.

Sorry, I've been out singing, and then watching the Welsh railway programmes. (Fascinating.... I was in Porthmadog in 2007, went by train to Ffestiniog and it rained the whole time. Well, it was June.)

Yes, of course I know all about Black Agnes, who was left to watch Dunbar Castle while her husband the Earl of Dunbar was playing an away fixture against the English, not long after Bannockburn. The Earl of Salisbury thought he'd make short work of his siege of the castle, but Agnes had other ideas and sent him on his way, not rejoicing.

I have no doubt that Anna is a more than worthy successor to Black Agnes, and as I am a descendant (probably) of a famous Border Reiver, I'm sure that together we'd be able to see off any marauders.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry, I've been out singing, and then watching the Welsh railway programmes. (Fascinating.... I was in Porthmadog in 2007, went by train to Ffestiniog and it rained the whole time. Well, it was June.)

Yes, of course I know all about Black Agnes, who was left to watch Dunbar Castle while her husband the Earl of Dunbar was playing an away fixture against the English, not long after Bannockburn. The Earl of Salisbury thought he'd make short work of his siege of the castle, but Agnes had other ideas and sent him on his way, not rejoicing.

I have no doubt that Anna is a more than worthy successor to Black Agnes, and as I am a descendant (probably) of a famous Border Reiver, I'm sure that together we'd be able to see off any marauders.

[BBMmk2]

Another good day today! I know it wont last!! :)

[Karafan]

Well it's bright and sunny here, but that wind! I have just been for my daily constitutional a 1 mile march up the 1:4 hill I live on and then back down the other side. At the very top I was nearly blown flat -but it does feel good to lose those cobwebs as I gaze across the valley. (Rain and wind at 4am was akin to the front of the old homestead being attacked by a helicopter gunship! Sleep a distant memory).

[eighthobstruction]

I too can attest to Yorkshire's meeeting of callous drafts from a dastardly pie-eating county only 4 miles away....

[Karafan]

Aah, so it's that lot to blame. I might have guessed!

[salymap]

Whereas we getthe stale petrol fumes from London when the wind blows from the east. I'd rather have a pie,thanks.

[eighthobstruction]

Aah, so it's that lot to blame. I might have guessed!

The wind had the sense to turn the right way around once in Yorks....into my face on the sheltered woody bit of my dog walk and to my back across the fields back home....

....we are so near to the border , you often find some proper Tykes with an accidental dribble of pie on their jowls(them that don't carry a hanky)....(not that I'm looking....)....

[Nick Armstrong]

....we are so near to the border , you often find some proper Tykes with an accidental dribble of pie on their jowls(them that don't carry a hanky)....(not that I'm looking....)....

[Anna]

Sorry, I've been out singing, and then watching the Welsh railway programmes. (Fascinating.... I was in Porthmadog in 2007, went by train to Ffestiniog and it rained the whole time. Well, it was June.)

The last time I was in Porthmadog it was blazingly hot (and I have photographs to prove that it doesn't always rain in Wales) but a lot of strange people dressed as characters from The Prisoner wandering around. I've never seen the programme but it does seem odd that it still has such a cult following.

After a wild night and early morning with torrential rain a lovely sunny day developed - but, oh the wind could cut straight through you and very chilly!! Luckily the yellow warning for rain here has been revised and should not continue much after 9am tomorrow and then more sunshine. Grey, low, cloud building rapidly at the moment.

[marthe]

Just checking in. Weather here is quite balmy and windy. All traces of the Deep Freeze of the last couple of weeks are gone. All snow melted, snowdrops in bloom. This won't last but is a nice respite before February begins. Nursing a sore leg here so I haven't been up to my usual tricks.

[Anna]

Just checking in. Weather here is quite balmy and windy. All traces of the Deep Freeze of the last couple of weeks are gone. All snow melted, snowdrops in bloom. This won't last but is a nice respite before February begins. Nursing a sore leg here so I haven't been up to my usual tricks.

Hello marthe, best wishes to you that your leg will soon be healed! Lovely snowdrops here as well, suddenly appeared after the snow, sure they weren't in bloom before, hardy little things aren't they, with such delicate colouring. Winter Jasmine. a splash of colour, also cheerful to see. My windowsill cyclamens, which I rescued, are finally about to burst into bloom.

[salymap]

Hello marthe, sorry aboutyour leg. I'll email you with a couple of pix of Mahlerei's Husky if I still have them.

Boards seem rather flat atm but somegood TV on Welsh mountain railways, also steam trains, which I love reading about.

Hope you are soon 100% again, bestio