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« Reply #105 on: November 05, 2009, 03:17:48 PM »

Hope you're going somewhere warm!

No ice here yet....
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« Reply #106 on: November 05, 2009, 03:24:41 PM »

Hope you're going somewhere warm!


Warm, yes. Dry, only sometimes.
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« Reply #107 on: November 05, 2009, 06:03:10 PM »

And I'm stuck in the UK until mid-December....

So am I . . . and then I'm probably off to Munich (er, has anybody seen my thermals?) for Christmas . . .

For some reason, the idea of hot chocolate with a large (and frequently replenished) glass of Tyrconnel is springing to mind . . .
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« Reply #108 on: November 08, 2009, 06:41:29 AM »

Lovely morning here - just had breakfast outside in the sun!
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« Reply #109 on: November 08, 2009, 06:54:55 AM »

Lovely morning here - just had breakfast outside in the sun!

<sighs enviously>

I'm contemplating turning on the heating to combat the lingering effects of the overnight soaking.

Mind you, if you've got anything non-hardy still out in the garden, get it in. The Met Office is predicting a hard frost in your neck of the woods tonight.
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« Reply #110 on: November 08, 2009, 07:01:48 AM »

Thanks for the tip. Guess that means it'll stay clear today.
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« Reply #111 on: November 08, 2009, 08:07:28 AM »

Lovely morning here - just had breakfast outside in the sun!

<sighs enviously>

I'm contemplating turning on the heating to combat the lingering effects of the overnight soaking.

Mind you, if you've got anything non-hardy still out in the garden, get it in. The Met Office is predicting a hard frost in your neck of the woods tonight.

I've had the heat on continuously for the past week.  I also had a nightmare about flooding last night.

I think I need to move.
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« Reply #112 on: November 09, 2009, 07:32:34 AM »

Cold. Overcast. Damp.
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« Reply #113 on: November 10, 2009, 12:09:52 PM »

What a lovely afternoon. Crisp, dry, no wind. Would be delighted to get a weekend day like this - lots to do.

On an amusing note, we are overrun with rabbits. (Well at least 3.) They're very fat and quite tame and I would guess that they've escaped from somewhere nearby. My nearly blind dog is having great fun sniffing out the paths they've left but so far has failed to spot them from a few tens of feet away.
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« Reply #114 on: November 14, 2009, 08:24:04 AM »

I'll happily swap rabbits for our squirrels!

The deluge has arrived.
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« Reply #115 on: November 14, 2009, 09:45:08 AM »

The deluge has arrived.

So I see - looks a bit grim down your way.

The rain is about to come on again here but I had a lovely glass of wine in the sun a couple of hours ago. :~)
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« Reply #116 on: November 14, 2009, 01:09:54 PM »

It has been blustery and cloudy here all day, with the occasional flurry of rain, but nothing much. I had to go 20 miles inland this morning to find a butcher (ours will be closed for a few weeks due to storm damage) and it was very wet there.

Will I need to fax the canoe down wegie?
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« Reply #117 on: November 14, 2009, 06:04:08 PM »

Will I need to fax the canoe down wegie?

The rain thankfully seems to have buggered off for a while ;-)

You will, however, have noted that I was quite correct about the discriminatory coverage . . . you guys get massive flooding and no trains for a week: regional news. We get high winds and maybe some flooding to come: front page. Meh.
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« Reply #118 on: November 14, 2009, 06:26:27 PM »

I get lame/boring weather and no news coverage.  Where's the fairness??? 

I demand some snow!!  Where I grew up, at this time of year there was already a month of snow...
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« Reply #119 on: November 14, 2009, 07:41:14 PM »

I get lame/boring weather and no news coverage.  Where's the fairness??? 

You live in the boring bit in the middle, the rest of us don't care!

I demand some snow!!  Where I grew up, at this time of year there was already a month of snow...

Hmmm. Remind me again about the age of your house and the level of insulation and glazing ;-)
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