Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

Take it easy, Bbm. I'm off to St Sprees for my weekly groceries this afternoon. Heavy grey cumulus predominating, and piling up through thick stratocumulus layer, producing wind gusts and a few cold spots of rain. Depending on what's coming up from the west will determine if it's to be footslog or cycle ride. It has to be today: I'm out of milk!

I did! Ofcourse I did but yesterday my b/p was low so couldn’t do much at all! Had to go to bed in the morning And again in the afternoon! My heart was playing up as well, to add to things! Typical when it was sunny outside albeit colder, whereas today it’s www.com as I call it!

[DracoM]

Phew! Vicious NE wind of gale force driving a tempting mix of snow, ice, rain, and sleet, making pavements a wet skating rink. Shopping street AND market day deserted.

Practically bowled over as I walked.

And it's coming east!

[oddoneout]

And it's coming east!

So I gather. Best grab a bite and get out before it lands.

[DracoM]

.........and the non-stop, relentless rain since is becoming very troubling.

[teamsaint]

Really vile here all day. Cold with persistent rain.

Forecast looks decent for the weekend though.

[DracoM]

Truly enrages me as to how spectacularly out of touch BBC forecasts can be / sound.
It has rodded it down ALL DAY up here with a mix of snow, stinging sleet, rain, driven by one of the nastiest North / North West gusting winds I have experienced up here in years.
Listen to the forecasts or the blithe summaries, and you'd think, we, 'In The North', had just had s spring shower. Rivers are in dangerous spate, fields / roads flooded.

I'm just damned glad schools are on half tern so the most poor kids have not had to trek it home in that.

[BBMmk2]

Really wild wet and windy yesterday evening. No mention of a storm at all?

[Serial_Apologist]

So we have what might as well be described as the first day of spring down here today; and it looks likely that this type of weather, mainly dry apart from Scotland and relatively mild, is set to continue to the end of the month, we can but hope!

[DracoM]

Tonight's walk was the first in a week where the paths / tracks were NOT frozen partially or completely. What a relief!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A very welcome day of sunshine today in this bit of the Pennines, and not too chilly. A bit of a surprise for me, therefore to discover that between 5:30 (PM, when when I closed the downstairs curtains) and 7:30 (when I did those upstairs) there'd been a significant covering of snow!

[BBMmk2]

A very welcome day of sunshine today in this bit of the Pennines, and not too chilly. A bit of a surprise for me, therefore to discover that between 5:30 (PM, when when I closed the downstairs curtains) and 7:30 (when I did those upstairs) there'd been a significant covering of snow!

That was! It’s another sunny but cold day today! Going to see The Barber of Seville. My hair is actually long now, so needs a cut!

[Serial_Apologist]

That was! It’s another sunny but cold day today! Going to see The Barber of Seville. My hair is actually long now, so needs a cut!

The last time I went to a barber's it cost me 11/6! That must have been in 1971, pre-decimal currrency and the last time I had a job requiring me to ape conventional respectability. Throughout the 1970s I just yanked off my hair whenever it reached shoulder level, using kitchen scissors, and grew a beard and moustache. Then in 1982 I broke up with my then-current girlfriend and, on returning home, scizzored my hair off into a large pile on the floor, leaving about an inch all over. Colleagues wanted to know if I'd become converted and joined the National Front - I was well known for being a Trot: I said no, a Buddhist! Soon afterwards I bought an electric clipper which has since served me well: by lining up hand-held and wall mirrors for side and rear visibility, I think I have managed to do a pretty good job. A good head of hair I found that it's always advisable from about November to April, in order to keep warm; but I can't wait to get the clippers out once the warmer days arrive. having spent that £24 on the clippers I've obviously saved a lot of money over the past 36 years!

[BBMmk2]

Good idea. I like the banter I have at the barber's. Men talk! Although MrsBBM was there. I found out that they were both Everton fans! , so I said that MrsBBM is a Liverpool fan(which she is!, I thought, wouldi be able to love a Liverpool fan? ). They both said that was a swear word to them. So I said next time, instead of her indoors,she'll be her outdoors! Ofcourse everyone laughed!

[Serial_Apologist]

Good idea. I like the banter I have at the barber's. Men talk! Although MrsBBM was there. I found out that they were both Everton fans! , so I said that MrsBBM is a Liverpool fan(which she is!, I thought, wouldi be able to love a Liverpool fan? ). They both said that was a swear word to them. So I said next time, instead of her indoors,she'll be her outdoors! Ofcourse everyone laughed!

Didn't you Liverpool of blood at the barber's then, Bbm? We're lucky to be far away from the epicentre. I see Wales experienced a 4.4 earthquake on the Richter scale yesterday afternoon. No one had yet been reported as hurt, nor any damage, so far. Here it's been a lovely day - almost springlike in the strong sunshine, with very little wind, although temperatures were only half a degree above the expected. In 4 days' time that daytime average maximum temperature rises a degree to 8 Celsius, and that continues notching up three times per month until 10 July, when it reaches 22 C for the London area. Hence the expected cold, starting around Thursday in the coming week with a stong easterly straight from Siberia, goes against the seasonal grain, though this is quite common at this time of year.

[Padraig]

I see Wales experienced a 4.4 earthquake on the Richter scale yesterday afternoon.

Some of our members live within the area.

Glad that no injuries or damage reported.

Maybe a slight tinkling of china tea cups and saucers?