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Post by sesley on Jan 1, 2010 17:09:56 GMT
my local backyard  my neighbours house and grounds  and my local church  |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 1, 2010 17:36:08 GMT
Lovely colours! - and don't you have posh neighbours! ;D
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Post by housesparrow on Jan 2, 2010 7:58:13 GMT
It looks as if dawn is breaking; the light is fantastic!
Though I suppose in your part of the world, if you want to capture any scene in broad daylight at this time of year you'd have to set your alarm clock for ten minutes before noon, and hurry out!
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 2, 2010 10:22:22 GMT
It's just started snowing here again. Outrageous. We don't get snow like this usually, and it doesn't usually lie so long.
BUT . . and this is my question, should the squirrels not be hibernating? They're not. I just watched two of them playing in the square outside my window, and they were hiding from the snow on the ground, not hibernating at all. And the other day I watched them doing their dramatic tree-jumping stuff.
Do squirrels not hibernate?
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Post by Patrick on Jan 2, 2010 10:34:28 GMT
Squirrels!! In the snow!!!
They must be nuts!
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Post by Patrick on Jan 2, 2010 11:00:33 GMT
Cold weather or not - the birdies know which side of New Year it is - they're already starting to get vocal - and sitting in the bush outside the front door having a good shout.
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Post by sesley on Jan 3, 2010 16:52:41 GMT
its snowing again. I went round raiding the grit bins today,i got enough to sprinkle on my drive way were it was cleared,but the salt does no good when it gets to certain temps anyway
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Post by Patrick on Jan 3, 2010 23:02:08 GMT
its snowing again. I went round raiding the grit bins today,i got enough to sprinkle on my drive way were it was cleared,but the salt does no good when it gets to certain temps anyway My parents lived in a village in Cumbria - where they were supposed to do their own salting too. That was just another thing on the list that annoyed them - considering the amount of council tax they paid to live there! |
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Post by jean on Jan 5, 2010 13:33:40 GMT
Our council has reportedly run out of grit - not that they spread it about much before.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 5, 2010 13:38:57 GMT
Our council has reportedly run out of grit - not that they spread it about much before. This is a big story up here in Scotland; all the councils are running out. We had more snow overnight too. Nobody can remember a time when the snow has lain for quite so long in Glasgow. I was out the house today (HOORAY) and wandered down to the Post Office to pick up a package, and the pavements are either completely clear or completely dangerous. I nearly went on my arse, but managed to grab a fence to stop myself and have scraped all my hand. But what's really making me laugh is going round the mbs and seeing people claiming that the snow PROVES that there is no such thing as global warming. If it snows in a 10 mile radius of your home, apparently that is proof of the climate across the globe. Hilarious. |
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Post by everso on Jan 5, 2010 13:45:34 GMT
Cold weather or not - the birdies know which side of New Year it is - they're already starting to get vocal - and sitting in the bush outside the front door having a good shout. I'd noticed that. We've had, apart from the wood pigeons, blue tits, chaffinches, blackbirds and robins. In my daughter's garden, I noticed a blue tit making itself at home in a birdhouse on the wall before Christmas. How about starting a Stub Crouch Springwatch, Pat? Get us in the mood. |
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Post by everso on Jan 5, 2010 13:51:38 GMT
Our council has reportedly run out of grit - not that they spread it about much before. This is a big story up here in Scotland; all the councils are running out. We had more snow overnight too. Nobody can remember a time when the snow has lain for quite so long in Glasgow. I was out the house today (HOORAY) and wandered down to the Post Office to pick up a package, and the pavements are either completely clear or completely dangerous. I nearly went on my arse, but managed to grab a fence to stop myself and have scraped all my hand.But what's really making me laugh is going round the mbs and seeing people claiming that the snow PROVES that there is no such thing as global warming. If it snows in a 10 mile radius of your home, apparently that is proof of the climate across the globe. Hilarious. Hope your hand is all right, but I did smile at your description. More importantly, did anyone see you? According to my son, Edinburgh is pretty bad too. We have no snow down here in the Tropics, but apparently a little is expected this evening. I have to drive down to Romford tomorrow, which is dire at the best of times, so I hope we don't have too much. |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 5, 2010 14:02:27 GMT
We have no snow down here in the Tropics, but apparently a little is expected this evening. I have to drive down to Romford tomorrow, which is dire at the best of times, so I hope we don't have too much. Got a couple of cm here, frozen solid, but there's a Severe Weather Warning out now for Wales. And parts of the south -- could be 30cm, somebody said on R4. That's a lorra lorra snow. No need to worry though -- I have ample supplies of beer. And there's other food somewhere in the house as well. |
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Post by sesley on Jan 5, 2010 14:07:27 GMT
snow and more snow, a proper Scottish winter. I went out to feed the birdies and the snow comes up to my knees its so deep.
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Post by everso on Jan 5, 2010 14:22:29 GMT
We have no snow down here in the Tropics, but apparently a little is expected this evening. I have to drive down to Romford tomorrow, which is dire at the best of times, so I hope we don't have too much. Got a couple of cm here, frozen solid, but there's a Severe Weather Warning out now for Wales. And parts of the south -- could be 30cm, somebody said on R4. That's a lorra lorra snow. No need to worry though -- I have ample supplies of beer. And there's other food somewhere in the house as well. I just checked the BBC weather website and heavy snow is expected tomorrow in our area. Damn. |
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Post by sesley on Jan 5, 2010 15:03:15 GMT
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Post by jean on Jan 5, 2010 16:01:52 GMT
We are having our first serious snow here.
I was talking to a woman this morning about the terrible winter of 1947 - I don't really remember it as I was only three years old, but she said people were burning their furniture to keep warm. I thought we were poor, but we didn't have to do that. Mind you, my parents' tolerance of cold was beyond all reason.
In 1962 I was at university in the West Country, which was especially badly hit. I remember my legs aching as I tried to negotiate the drifts.
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Post by everso on Jan 5, 2010 16:46:21 GMT
I wasn't around in 1947, but I've heard terrible things about the severity of that winter. However, I well remember the big freeze of 1962/63 as I'd just started senior school. I think the big difference then was that so few people had central heating. We just had one fireplace in our flat, in the lounge. The bedrooms were unheated and freezing cold, and if you wanted the bathroom warm you had to take a paraffin stove in with you. We only had one bath a week though. Good grief, you'd th
Mr. E. remembers their high level w.c. cistern freezing solid - and it was an indoor toilet too!
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Post by Weyland on Jan 5, 2010 17:09:42 GMT
I wasn't around in 1947, but I've heard terrible things about the severity of that winter. However, I well remember the big freeze of 1962/63 as I'd just started senior school. I think the big difference then was that so few people had central heating. We just had one fireplace in our flat, in the lounge. The bedrooms were unheated and freezing cold, and if you wanted the bathroom warm you had to take a paraffin stove in with you. We only had one bath a week though. Good grief, you'd thThtink? I was born in 1947, and I remember the 60s winter you mention, E. We had only one usable fireplace, in a small terraced house. But plenty of coal. Two working pits in my suburb then. Our backyard was full of snow, at least 4ft deep. My rabbit died, but not because of the cold. She was inside by then. Mr. E. remembers their high level w.c. cistern freezing solid - and it was an indoor toilet too! Yep. That too. What fun. But, as the old cliché goes, we were happy. And we were. |
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Post by jean on Jan 5, 2010 17:28:49 GMT
...I think the big difference then was that so few people had central heating... I did, for the first time in my life (and actually for the last time for many years) because I was in a University Hall of Residence. At home, the water tank in the loft regularly froze, and there was ice on the inside of the bedroom window when you woke up. |
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