Stormy Weather II

[LeMartinPecheur]

Bitter NE wind here in the balmy, barmy SW!

[DracoM]

Virtually cloudless start, but...that cruel N-easter is bringing cloud over the tops.

[cloughie]

Bitter NE wind here in the balmy, barmy SW!

Yup!

[Serial_Apologist]

A bracing day for combining the daily exercise with the once-a-week hunt for essential groceries, and I thought people might like an idea of what it's like here in London on an otherwise non-ordinary Tuesday.

One person was in front of me, and one behind, at the Lloyds cashpoint in E Dulwich. Earlier the local ATM had kindly disgorged my card, even though withdrawing £200 was one of the options; the E Dulwich machine only offered £100 max. On to the large Sainsbury's on Dog Kennel Hill, located halfway between E Dulwich and Camberwell. A funeral paced queue of equidistanced individuals with trolleys was making its way into the shop; when told my one of the "bouncers" that the queue went alll around two sides the large car park perimeter and out into Dog Kennel Hill, about 300 metres, I thought the better of it and cycled my way to Herne Hill. There I joined a silent queue of only five in front of me, and was in and out of the Tescos Express in under 15 minutes carrying a back packful of all requirements apart from dried milk, baked beans and squirty cream. It seems that lessons from the effects of last week's panic buying depleting the shelves are being learned by the retailers and taken on board by the public. There was no aggro, nor even the gasps of impatience one might have expected - just reserve of the kind one observes on crowded public transport, and probably surprise when I annnounced that most of the regular supplies were available, so those still queuing shouldn't be disappointed; one or two of them even thanked me.

[BBMmk2]

All part of the rigours of today’s problems SA.

A lovely but cold day today. 4C!

[oddoneout]

Another NAF day - well nearly. When I did the last check yesterday evening it was supposed to be at least partly sunny today, so when I woke to uniform greyness I looked again to find that it will remain like this all day, with the extra excitement of a bit of wetness if we're lucky! I would still have put out the washing as it's heavy items that can lose useful amounts of moisture so long as there's some air movement, except that someone down the road is again having a filthy bonfire. The only improvement on previous episodes is that the wind is blowing away from the houses. I know who it is and also know there's nothing to be done, especially if the immediate neighbours haven't already tackled him. Engaging with him is difficult at the best of times and putting a note through the door is pointless. Ah well, perhaps it'll go over by the afternoon and I can still get to do what I had planned in the garden. Meanwhile I have to summon up energy to do some shopping, which I think will have to be the car to a supermarket job and just put up with queues, as now there is too much needed to bring back by hand.

[DracoM]

Almost a complete week without rain. Hmm. In MARCH?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Almost a complete week without rain. Hmm. In MARCH?

We on the southern side of the date-line are now in APRIL! Or are you perhaps Eastern Orthodox?

[oddoneout]

We on the southern side of the date-line are now in APRIL! Or are you perhaps Eastern Orthodox?

Well the week in question wouldn't be April yet would it?

[cloughie]

Well the week in question wouldn't be April yet would it?

I think in these parts it is over a week anyway!

[DracoM]

Thank you.........wasn't that obvious?

[Padraig]

Snow on April the First! It's not unheard of. My friend claims that it snowed on her birth day, and she's 88 today.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Well the week in question wouldn't be April yet would it?

I really don't know(but see EDIT). Once upon a time I could have had a better grasp of the matter because I lived in student digs with an Eastern orthodox church in the garden but never checked it out properly, beyond knowing that the EO Easter was about 2wks after the 'real, proper' Church of England one This was important to know because term had started by then so I was back from home in time for their Easter Sunday when it was conventional to exchange kisses and mutter Christos aneste/ Athenos aneste after the service while sharing the celebrations with the pretty Greek girls

The figure in my head is that the calendars are 12 days different but that would put their Easter Sunday on a weekday which I'm sure wasn't the case. I'm assuming that for years the Russian and Greek secular calendars have been like ours so does the church still bother changing months differently?

I'm sure I could Google all this but I'd much rather get simple answers, assuming there are any!

EDIT Trying to get brain fully engaged, I take it that oddoneout's #4690 was rightly pointing out that if the Eastern Orthodox church's calendar runs behind ours AND they really do change the month c12 days late as well as the keeping of church feasts, then they're still well back in March. But do they really run their months differently? It seems an unnecessary complication if all they want to do is have feast-days 12 or 14 days after the rest of the world: they can surely do that on 'our' calendar with much less confusion...

...I think!

[ardcarp]

I have it in my head (and I don't feel like Googling either!) that the Orthodox churches use the old Julian calendar to determine Easter, even though their countries use the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar for civil purposes.

[oddoneout]

I really don't know(but see EDIT). Once upon a time I could have had a better grasp of the matter because I lived in student digs with an Eastern orthodox church in the garden but never checked it out properly, beyond knowing that the EO Easter was about 2wks after the 'real, proper' Church of England one This was important to know because term had started by then so I was back from home in time for their Easter Sunday when it was conventional to exchange kisses and mutter Christos aneste/ Athenos aneste after the service while sharing the celebrations with the pretty Greek girls

The figure in my head is that the calendars are 12 days different but that would put their Easter Sunday on a weekday which I'm sure wasn't the case. I'm assuming that for years the Russian and Greek secular calendars have been like ours so does the church still bother changing months differently?

I'm sure I could Google all this but I'd much rather get simple answers, assuming there are any!

EDIT Trying to get brain fully engaged, I take it that oddoneout's #4690 was rightly pointing out that if the Eastern Orthodox church's calendar runs behind ours AND they really do change the month c12 days late as well as the keeping of church feasts, then they're still well back in March. But do they really run their months differently? It seems an unnecessary complication if all they want to do is have feast-days 12 or 14 days after the rest of the world: they can surely do that on 'our' calendar with much less confusion...

...I think!

Nothing so complicated LMP. I was just observing that as it's only the first day of April today, by definition the week that was being referred to(re rain or lack thereof) would be in March. Reflecting on the first week in April would be forecasting, as it hasn't happened yet.
However the musings on the Orthodox calendar are interesting.