Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

It's snowing here.

Just starting to here as well - preferable it must be said to the freezing drizzle I faced head-on en route back from St Sprees this morning!

[Lat-Literal]

Just starting to here as well - preferable it must be said to the freezing drizzle I faced head-on en route back from St Sprees this morning!

I think you will find that it isn't snowing where you are.

Otherwise, it wouldn't support my claim that it is so mountainous here that it is arctic and everywhere else south of Central London is bathed in sunshine.

[DracoM]

Trying to oop 'ere as well. Deadly cold and grey, wind N/NE. Temp at this height is currently -2C, so will drop sharply towards sunset. We shall see.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yup - snow in the air (vanishing by the time it reaches the ground) in this bit of the Pennines yesterday and today, too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Trying to oop 'ere as well. Deadly cold and grey, wind N/NE. Temp at this height is currently -2C, so will drop sharply towards sunset. We shall see.

Blimey, that is wuthering! My car thermometer tells me that it's five degrees warmer than that outside here - but I think it's just trying to cheer me up.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think you will find that it isn't snowing where you are.

Otherwise, it wouldn't support my claim that it is so mountainous here that it is arctic and everywhere else south of Central London is bathed in sunshine.

Oh all right - just a few small flakes here then!

(I well remember staying at my cousin's house in Upper Warlingham as a child, when a foot of snow on the ground compared with at most an inch in our part of S Ken!)

[Serial_Apologist]

Blimey, that is wuthering! My car thermometer tells me that it's five degrees warmer than that outside here - but I think it's just trying to cheer me up.

I would say so too - it can't be warmer where you are than it is here right now!

[Lat-Literal]

Oh all right - just a few small flakes here then!

(I well remember staying at my cousin's house in Upper Warlingham as a child, when a foot of snow on the ground compared with at most an inch in our part of S Ken!)

Mount Upper Warlingham, yes.

There's only Mount Kenley between that mountain and my mountain although it is in the deprived state of Surrey.

The poor souls.

I cannot lie - currently, we have nothing more than what looks like a bad case of dandruff.

[BBMmk2]

I must say, a slightly bit of the white stuff today!!

[pastoralguy]

I must say, a slightly bit of the white stuff today!!

Same in Edinburgh!

[BBMmk2]

Same in Edinburgh!

Ah, my ancestral country

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah, my ancestral country

??? I thought you'd said that that was Belgium?

[vinteuil]

??? I thought you'd said that that was Belgium?

... surely Ghent only became Belgian in 1830?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... surely Ghent only became Belgian in 1830?

Yes, I wondered about the "protocol" of this; do we refer to someone's "ancestral country" by the name in which it was known to those ancestors, or by the name by which we know it now?

[cloughie]

... surely Ghent only became Belgian in 1830?

Was that the good news?