Summer Solstice here today and for once the weather matched the season. Here is the view at Stonehenge 4.50 a.m. this morning.

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Yes that is a word; I know because I made it up. So, I have had my hair cut at the local salon and it was cheaper than my mobile hairdresser. £6! Unheard of in this day and age. I like it ( Read more... )

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92 years old. She had such a pure voice I think ( Read more... )

I'm watching the horse racing at the moment - such is the busy life of the retired - and they are racing in a blizzard at Lingfield (in the south east of England) immediately followed by bright sunshine and green grass from Punchestown in Ireland. We aren't having anything like either of those extremes here. It is what the Scots call dreech. There ( Read more... )

So soggy today. Of course this is the naff end of snowy weather; the dirty stuff takes ages to shift and is just a nuisance. Here's a link to local BBC site with pictures including some from where I live and nearby. I like the frost on the car picture. You never see that sort of pattern any more. Whatever happened to Jack Frost Eh? Eh? Winter ( Read more... )

Thaw! Well as the subject line suggests more likely a temporary reprieve. Anyway, the icicles are gone, along with part of next door's guttering which has been brought down by snow sliding off their roof. This is what happens when you don't use proper slates; the ones they've got are too slippy and didn't hold the melting snow so it came off in one ( Read more... )

You know you've had enough when there are icicles at least three feet long on the house down the road and you can't be bothered to get all wrapped up and force your boots on to go take a photo. So instead here's a picture from Nasa that people were so eager to see they crashed the website. It shows all the country blanketed in snow.


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I'll put some pics up later when I get them off my camera. I woke up and it was broad daylight. Actually it was 1.24 am and it was snowing so heavily the sky was white; hence the daylight effect. So I stayed up for a while, had a cup of coffee and watched the Australians pulling the irons out of the fire against Pakistan to win. Pah ( Read more... )

Well here we are again. Another inch here overnight and they are now suggesting this could be the coldest spell it has been in the UK for 100 years. My neighbour's son in law has cleared the path for a third time and I have been able to get the rubbish into the bins at last. However, Durham County Council has suspended refuse collection for the ( Read more... )

Frosty wind did indeed make moan ( Read more... )