Another dank and sullen day - overnight largely dry, but now rain, lowest cloud/mist, tops invisible. 5C.
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Looks like a bright start to the day here!Comment
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In these dark times, I am truly sorry for reporting what grim stuff we have and are having up here, so maybe I will stop reporting.
It just exasperates me that the national forecasts seem barely aware of what is happening here, or even that there is a 'here' to concern them.Comment
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No need to stop Draco. It's a useful reminder that this may be a small country but it encompasses extraordinary differences(and not just of weather) within that small space. And also nudges me to remember that things could be worse weatherwise than what I may be experiencing that day!Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Thx.
And as a reward for my gloom - the SUN is out suddenly!!
And then.......looking east......SNOW on the tops!Last edited by DracoM; 03-11-20, 14:19.Comment
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We had thunder here first thing this morning - which I had been half-expecting, but which woke me up at six - immediately followed by an hour's worth of heavy rain.
Now the weather is beginning to settle down, from today until Sunday at least, with high pressure moving across Wales and the bulk of England, bringing us possibly foggy nights and mornings, and, from tonight, frosty nights. Time to switch the CH back on.
Off shortly for some groceries shopping. Apparently there's another run on toilet paper - no pun intended!Comment
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That was quite near then!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
We have a clear morning and frost!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Sunny but chilly (phone widget says 5C, feels like 7C), so off soon to the library for a last-chance outdoor socially distanced coffee and gentle walk with some neighbours before we can only meet outdoors (not in the garden) one at a time!Comment
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Beautiful day here 12C - just returned from The Lizard where we sat outside overlooking a shining sea at the most Southerly cafe for coffee and their homemade doughnuts served with strawberry jam and clotted cream - well it’s our last chance for a while as Lockdown looms at the Midnight hour. Last sing this evening - a social distanced Karaoke (4 within the rule of 6).Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostComment
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Maybe you should form yourselves a group and call yourselves The Silly Clotts, cloughie!Originally posted by cloughie View Post
This morning the temperature on my north-facing wall thermometer had registered 1 degree celsius, so I trotted out to the entrance to the garden in my dressing gown and slippers, and noted that all the parked cars in the street were encased in frost, meaning residual warmth in the building had kept my thermometer reading higher than had it been correctly positioned - so I put 0 degrees C in my meteorological diary, as that seems to have generally been as low as it got in this part of London last night. This has been a beautiful day, almost cloudless. Rebekah, the pretty Bosnian gypsy girl, was back on Big Issue duties outside the W Dulwich Tesco Express, complaining in barely comprehensible English about the consequences of her partner's drinking and smoking on their relationship, nine months after she had given birth to their 6th baby - the first of which she would have had aged 15, when she first began selling BI. She catches a bus all the way from Woolwich, spends 3 hours in the cold with little in returns to show for it. Delighted as I was to have seen her, I could not give her the usual hug, I explained, but instead a bit more than the £3 to go towards pre-Covid lockdown necessities.Comment
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e.g. maybe....ahem...her partner's fags?Comment
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Minus 2 when I woke up this morning at about quarter to 7. It has been a very nice sunny, windless day, though turning overcast around an hour or so ago.Comment
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I get the impression Rebekah has more than enough jutspah to stand up for herself - from what I am able to make out she conscientiously fulfils all her child caring responsibilities, including innoculations, education etc.; the less said about him the better, from what one gleans. The last time I asked they'd just been transferred into some kind of church charity property following a ceiling collapse at the previous place, which gives a glimpse into that Dickensian world one hears or reads about. Rebekah handed me a Christmas card last year in which she had written, "Jesus loves you"! Aaaah emoji. Funnily enough, wearing as she does a tight hair-concealing headscarf I'd initially assumed her to be Muslim. Anyways, I find her general positivity heart-warming - goodness knows if they're in the country legally, though one supposes she would have been vetted prior to qualifying to be a Big Issue seller.Originally posted by DracoM View PostLast edited by Serial_Apologist; 04-11-20, 17:24.Comment
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Signature piece ‘Doughnutting ‘til you hear from me’.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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