Weather 2008

[David Nicholson]

That's pretty cold for a large sodium street light!   

[Anthony Darby]

 

[Rogan]

Y'all just love your snow - why? You'd think living in countries that get a lot of the stuff you'd be sick of it - lovely pictures though... 

Can you believe that the pictures attached below were taken by a friend of mine not too far from where I live last winter - amazing, as we rarely get snow in these parts and then only high up in the Drakensberg:

[Anthony Darby]

Huh. What snow. Kids are most upset at being promised 8" and getting none!

[Maggi Young]

None of the forecast eight inches of snow here, either... it poured with rain all night and happily the temperature has risen above freezing or we'd be in a right icy mess....instead we're just in a wet mess 

I loved Cliff's cold, atmospheric snow pix.... I thought they wre very "filmic"... especially the one with the long stairway... where I was absolutely thinking a remake of "The 39 Steps"..... but, on balance.... if a choice is offered, I'll take Rogan's snow with sun and bright blue skies 

[ranunculus]

Thanks Maggi ... I must admit I would prefer to take my camera to South Africa, given the chance.
We have gained a further three inches of the white stuff overnight but the thaw is now quite pronounced, as i discovered to my cost when I went out to scrape the snow from the frames and the greenhouse roof ...   

[Maggi Young]

Well, Cliff, since we've discovered in another thread ...  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=249.new;topicseen#new  .... that Rogan's brother is a guide inthe Drakensberg..... perhaps a trip, with your camera, could be on the cards, eh? 

[ranunculus]

Does he do finance as well, Maggi?   What a gent!

[Maggi Young]

Does he do finance as well, Maggi?   What a gent!

Now that really would be fantastic, Cliff!
With the further reduction in the bank rate, and the knock-on effect to onterest rates, I can certainly say that I will have to content myself with enjoying the travel pix in the Forum, since my savings will be hard pressed to even keep up with my chocolate habit for the foreseeable future   

[JohnnyD]

The 'chocolate habit' makes you sound like a nun Maggi.
Can it be true?
John

[David Shaw]

When we were in Forres yesterday I noticed two or three parents coming out of shops carrying sledges!  Ah well, it will probably snow sometime this winter.

[Maggi Young]

Johnny,  I could never lay claim to being any kind of bird of "pray"   


When we had our first snow, the other week, a colleague at the BBC had been trying to find  a sledge for his young children but nowhere seemed to have them in stock then.... one of the Potting Shed panellists said she'd spotted some on sale in Dumfries.... but Pete thought that a bit far to travel........Forres is nearer!!

[ranunculus]

The 'chocolate habit' makes you sound like a nun Maggi.
John

Maggi is certainly the Mother Superior of the SRGC, John.

[David Nicholson]

I've seen more snow in pictures on the Forum this week than we have had for real in the last five years or so. Did I read that many schools in Lancashire were closed this week because of snow? Gone are the days when I walked to school, in the outskirts of Huddersfield, by walking on the tops of walls through some feet of snow!

Mind you, if we get a couple of centimeters of snow down here, apart from on the heights of Dartmoor, the whole place grinds to a halt.

[Anthony Darby]

I only had to walk up the hill from South Parade to Spring Grove the winter of 1962-3.