Marmite Closes M1 ...

[Mr Pee]

Have the BBC covered this? Andrew Marr might.

[Norfolk Born]

I think it's been already been spread pretty widely over the various channels....let's hope interest in this story soon evaporates.

[ahinton]

Calibran

You might live to regret that Freudian typo here!...

What is surely clear today is that the very notion of "seasons" is disintegrating in any case - and not only in Britain, of course.

Anyway - back to the topic. As is so often the case, the Bard predicted this kind of incident, for all that Leonardo had never gotten around to designing the now-famous West Midlands monument tht we all now know as Spaghetti Junction; remember the line whose suspect journey into modern English had long troubled Shakesperian scholars until the recent discovery that it actually ran It is the yeast, and Julie eat some?

[mercia]

let's hope interest in this story soon evaporates.

yeasterday's news
never to rise again

[amateur51]

Have the BBC covered this? Andrew Marr might.

Hey Mr Pee - that was both original AND funny.

Don't say I don't ever give you credit where it's deserved

[Mr Pee]

Hey Mr Pee - that was both original AND funny.

Don't say I don't ever give you credit where it's deserved

Thank you Amateur. Much appreciated.

[scottycelt]

I don't know, but where I'm sitting, there are still plenty of leaves on plenty of trees and there has not yet been any suggestion of a frost (thank goodness). For an authentic answer, perhaps you'd be best advised to ask Gideon himself.

Where are you sitting now, ahinton ... somewhere in New Zealand?

Well, we're a mere three weeks away from the shortest day (officially midwinter?) and I've never known any Scotsman/woman who thinks the end of November is still autumn.

Happy St Andrew's Day, by the way, and to all other fellow-Scots!

[ahinton]

Where are you sitting now, ahinton ... somewhere in New Zealand?

No - I'm sitting some 11km to the south west of the city shown as my location in messages here, where my iPhone claim that the temperature is supposedly only 7 degrees is countermanded by my thermometer which confirms that it's actually around 11 (still too chilly for me, but not what you'd thinkof as "winter", I imagine).

Well, we're a mere three weeks away from the shortest day (officially midwinter?) and I've never known any Scotsman/woman who thinks the end of November is still autumn.

Whilst a certain day in December is likely to remin the "shortest" here for the foreseeable future, I cannot comment on which Scotsmen or Scotswomen you may have met but I will say (as I implied previously) that one should take this kind of thing on each individual year's merits; I've cetainly recalled Novembers past that have felt largely wintry, but this one hasn't where I am right now. The seasons as some of us might once have understood them are becoming ever more akin to Easter - moveable feasts.

Happy St Andrew's Day, by the way, and to all other fellow-Scots!

Thank you, scotty - and the same to you!

[PatrickOD]

Happy St Andrew's Day, by the way, and to all other fellow-Scots!

And many happy returns, scotty.
By the way, Andrew should get in touch with Patrick's PR man. Make a big Day of it. You know you're worth it!

[scottycelt]

And many happy returns, scotty.
By the way, Andrew should get in touch with Patrick's PR man. Make a big Day of it. You know you're worth it!

Oh I know, but would I ever survive it, Patrick ... ?

We tend to have two wee, sma' days (the other being 25th Jan for the majority secularists) rather than a big holy/unholy one, y'see ..

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i thought, and still do think come to that, that marmite is english .... where did all these tartaned chaps come from?

[mangerton]

Happy St Andrew's Day, by the way, and to all other fellow-Scots!

I'll second that, scotty, on a cold but dry day in Dundee. No rain or gales on this side of the country.

[vinteuil]

i thought, and still do think come to that, that marmite is english .... where did all these tartaned chaps come from?

... well I thought that "la marmite" was French - but Marmite ® is a Unilever product - so Dutch/British? - [ also available in New Zealand and the South Pacific (but not to be confused with the Australian Vegemite... ). ]

[Serial_Apologist]

... well I thought that "la marmite" was French - but Marmite ® is a Unilever product - so Dutch/British? - [ also available in New Zealand and the South Pacific (but not to be confused with the Australian Vegemite... ). ]

I may be wrong here, but from what I recall, "marmite" is French for reduced stock - which is what in affect Marmite is.

[vinteuil]

I may be wrong here, but from what I recall, "marmite" is French for reduced stock - which is what in effect Marmite is.

the 'marmite' is actually the pot in which you might cook up your stock or whatever. Originally 'Marmite' was sold in little earthenware pots resembling French marmites.. I think it is still depicted on the labels as a pot.