Weather- January 2010

[Ray]

So where is Kippax, Anne?  Kippax here is actually a shopping centre (Kippax Fair) and my post office box is located there, hence my mailing address.  There is no actual suburb of that name here in Canberra.  I have no idea of the origins of the name, so it is interesting to see that it is a town of suburb near you?  And so much cooler than here. 

Hi Paul,maybe named after the late and former  Test cricketer Alan Kippax.bye Ray

[Anthony Darby]

Diane when I close my louvres they wind rattles them and they fall out. Yours look fine. What have I done wrong? 

Can't imagine, Mark    Do you mean the glass or the whole fitting falls out?  Mine are held in postion by a sort of spring fitting, there's no way they could fall out.

Mine are very secure too. I bought cheap generic ones, but Robinson greenhouses are not standard, so I took the glass to a friend who has a fish tank building business (BOSS Aquariums). One of the chaps was going to cut the glass to size, but it had been around for so long that firstly, the binding tape wouldn't easily come off, and secondly the glass was too old to cut. He quickly cut me new glass and charged me nothing.

[David Nicholson]

So where is Kippax, Anne?  Kippax here is actually a shopping centre (Kippax Fair) and my post office box is located there, hence my mailing address.  There is no actual suburb of that name here in Canberra.  I have no idea of the origins of the name, so it is interesting to see that it is a town of suburb near you?  And so much cooler than here. 

For Paul,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippax,_West_Yorkshire

[annew]

Ah, you saved me the effort, David! We went to a neighbouring village yesterday to do some shopping, so did a quick detour to take the photo. It was flippin' cold!

[annew]

You could look on Google Earth if you have it too.

[Paul T]

Cool.  Thanks All.

Ray, I didn't know there was a cricketer called 'Kippax'.  I didn't even know that it was a surname.  I had no idea of any of the origins of the word (not that I'd been looking, mind you).

Thanks again.

[JohnnyD]

Couldn't resist the chance to get in on the 2010 weather theme.
Basically, we don't get much weather in Frodsham! But 2010!

Temperatures to -5C, precious little gritting and the top of the milk frozen.   
Something MUST be done!

My minigarden only needed a flake to become a 99!

Still, it keeps the camera busy.

Back garden
Even the Callicarpa berries turned blue with the cold!
Berberis with icicles
Skimmia lolly
Minigarden
Berberis before the fieldfares arrived

[JohnnyD]

If you try BT online for phone numbers for Kippax in Lancashire there are more than three pages of them.
J.

[Diane Clement]

Couldn't resist the chance to get in on the 2010 weather theme.
Minigarden  

Love the mini garden, JohnnyD, could start a new trend on the show-bench (or should it be snow-bench)  

[angie]

Johnny lovely pictures , our snow if finally melting after four weeks , nice to see but even nicer to see it go.
Angie

[Maggi Young]

JohnnyD, you are such a skinflint.... a 99 that size needs more than ONE flake.... .

[JohnnyD]

And one for you Maggi.
J

[Maggi Young]

And one for you Maggi.
J

Actually, I recently developed quite a taste for dark chocolate coated ginger..... much nicer than a Flake!!  

[David Nicholson]

Cool.  Thanks All.

Ray, I didn't know there was a cricketer called 'Kippax'.  I didn't even know that it was a surname.  I had no idea of any of the origins of the word (not that I'd been looking, mind you).

Thanks again.

Paul, just to bore your socks off! The "Kipp" part of Kippax comes from an Old English personal name Cippa or Cyppa and the "C" sound later became a "K" sound as a result of Scandanavian influences. The "ax" part comes from the Old English word "oesc" meaning "ash as in tree" which later became "askr" again as a result of Scandavian influences in the language. The Domesday Book shows the settlement as "Chipesch" The Vikings settled the area having sailed up the River Humber and it's tributaries and eventually "merged" with the previous Anglo Saxon settlers. You can yawn now!!

[annew]

Ah! You can't see from the photo, but under the name Kippax, I think it said Chipesch.
This afternoon we had a snowplough along our street! It has cleared all the snow off the road  and deposited it all on the pavement