Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

Cold enough for a frost overnight, possibly due to lack of wind as much as anything. This morning flat calm until the sun got going, when the breeze started to pick up. Pleasant morning's gardening, getting the hedge clippings (from my side of neighbour's conifer hedge, which I'm hoping he'll take to the tip as he did last year - it's his rubbish after all!) and leaves cleared away, and a couple of small grass paths lifted to widen veg beds. The week ahead doesn't look very inviting for volunteer gardening on Wednesday, but so long as it stays dry(or not too wet) there are things that can be done.

[Serial_Apologist]

If preparing porridge, don't forget to spice it up with some ginger.

I might consider trying that, though it would mean obtaining ginger, which I would not be using for any other purpose. We could be in for a cold 'un this winter! Usually I add a mustard spoonful of salt per helping for added flavour, and golden syrup and milk.

[oddoneout]

I might consider trying that, though it would mean obtaining ginger, which I would not be using for any other purpose. We could be in for a cold 'un this winter! Usually I add a mustard spoonful of salt per helping for added flavour, and golden syrup and milk.

Fully loaded! My mother used to agitate somewhat when we stayed with my Scottish grandparents as Granny would make the porridge with water and a pinch of salt but then encourage us children to add, liberally, top of the milk (Jersey from the dairy down the road) and demerara sugar at table, things we most definitely did not have at home; there might be top of the (ordinary) milk at weekends, otherwise just a small amount of milk and no sugar. I think there was an element of provocation on Granny's part, she didn't approve of her son's penny pinching which was at the root of my mother's reaction. When I stayed with them by myself I was happy just to have a bit of the cream and pass on the sugar - but the salt was the non-negotiable and what was often missing at home.

[Bryn]

I might consider trying that, though it would mean obtaining ginger, which I would not be using for any other purpose. We could be in for a cold 'un this winter! Usually I add a mustard spoonful of salt per helping for added flavour, and golden syrup and milk.

If, like me, you are happy to make do with powdered ginger root, get a bag of it from an Asian store. It works out at a small fraction of the price of small pots in the big supermarkets.

[BBMmk2]

Past 3 o’clock, on a cold and frosty morning! When MrsBBM took BBMPUPPY out for a walk, this morning, just after 7am, more towards 07:30, it was 2C! Certainly heavy fog. and first. BBMPUPPY took MrsBBM out for a quick one this morning!

[oddoneout]

Past 3 o’clock, on a cold and frosty morning! When MrsBBM took BBMPUPPY out for a walk, this morning, just after 7am, more towards 07:30, it was 2C! Certainly heavy fog. and first. BBMPUPPY took MrsBBM out for a quick one this morning!

A warming beverage at a nearby hostelry?
Cold overnight but a bright dawn and due to stay sunny through the day, without much breeze (it was completely still earlier, even the birch tree had stopped its shimmer - most unusual in this part of the world) so that will make for pleasant day to be out.

[Serial_Apologist]

A warming beverage at a nearby hostelry?
Cold overnight but a bright dawn and due to stay sunny through the day, without much breeze (it was completely still earlier, even the birch tree had stopped its shimmer - most unusual in this part of the world) so that will make for pleasant day to be out.

Just 5 C just now as I came in, but with no wind making for a beautiful day, last remaining leaves on trees foregounded against the intense blue of the sky, and a carpet of gold.

[oddoneout]

Just 5 C just now as I came in, but with no wind making for a beautiful day, last remaining leaves on trees foregounded against the intense blue of the sky, and a carpet of gold.

Same here, although the breeze is beginning to pick up a little and is making its presence felt. There is a mature silver birch in a nearby garden and it is a joy at this time of year - the golden leaves and white trunk against a clear blue sky are stunning.

[BBMmk2]

Not a mild day today. At the moment it’s 2C! Rather cloudy.

[Joseph K]

Cloudy and fairly cold. Only the very slightest bit of drizzle for the first twenty minutes of my walk.

[Serial_Apologist]

7 degrees celsius at noon, poor visibility under featureless grey stratus. It will be a short walk today, since I have to catalogue all the 78s I inherited from my dad, for collection by a possibly interested party. Yesterday my 3-mile walk took me on a route I did last winter - my winter walks tend to be on different routes from summer ones: I save them up for when the woodland paths become too muddy. I have been asked if I ever get bored treading the same walks, but I explain that nothing is exactly the same from one walk to the next, if you do them my way.

[oddoneout]

Well it didn't rain is I think the best that can be said for this morning, so although it was blooming cold the volunteer gardening could get done, although some who arrived later would have had the drizzle that became the afternoon rain to contend with. Shows what a difference the sun makes as there wasn't actually that much difference temperature wise between today and yesterday - but all the difference in terms of feel, and pleasure in being outside. I have more outdoor volunteering tomorrow and it's forecast to be really cold - scraping ice off the car stuff - but with sun so might not be too bad - except that the wind is due to pick up...

[BBMmk2]

Rather a cold, frosty start to the day. Max 7C!

[Joseph K]

Hardly a cloud in the sky today, very nice.

[Joseph K]

I held off going on a walk earlier due to lashing rain, but chose a good time with blue sky & sun. It's clouded over again now.