Comments | anteros_lmc: Brass monkeys

anteros_lmc

Brass monkeys

Nov 22, 2013 17:06

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real life, park, rugby

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aletheiafelinea November 22 2013, 18:17:42 UTC

*warm hug and warm yay! for the photo* *and for the icon*

anteros_lmc November 26 2013, 20:48:13 UTC

Warm hugs always appreciated ;) Incidentally the icon is one of the trees on the right hand side of the path!

aletheiafelinea November 26 2013, 21:51:28 UTC

Tehee, I suspected that! That is, maybe not exactly the path, but your photo. :D

eglantine_br November 22 2013, 19:21:47 UTC

My mom used to say that! 'Freeze the balls off a brass monkey!' also 'Colder than a witches tit.'

Old sayings...

If you lie on the pitch maybe rugby players will fall on you! You would not want that, now would you?

anteros_lmc November 26 2013, 20:51:02 UTC

'Colder than a witches tit.'
Oh man, I haven't heard that phrase for years! That used to be quite a common saying when I lived in Stornoway. I wonder has anyone ever studied the extent of some of these old sayings? I bet they travelled by sea, and made their way inland via the ports.

If you lie on the pitch maybe rugby players will fall on you! You would not want that, now would you?
I'm saying nothing.... ;)

azdak November 22 2013, 20:24:08 UTC

That's a fantastically beautiful photo. I'm seriously impressed!

anteros_lmc November 26 2013, 20:52:33 UTC

You're too kind :} It's amazing what you can do with an iphone and instagram ;) Though the colours really did look like this!

vespican November 22 2013, 23:11:36 UTC

Trying to remember Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion... if I'm right, we are having about the same temps here in the Inland Northwest US. Morning lows around -8 or -9 C. Days just above freezing. Clear skies, hardly any frost. Just enough that I have to scrape the windshield in order to drive, and a very tough bit of frost, takes forever to get it off.
Dave

anteros_lmc November 26 2013, 20:56:33 UTC

Google sez -3 celsius is 26.6 fahrenheit which sounds much warmer! It's not often the temperature gets as low as -9 on the west coast of Scotland, though the winters definitely seem to be getting more erratic; either very, very cold or really mild.

vespican November 26 2013, 22:53:56 UTC

I had it pretty close. I'm figuring the -9 C to be 15.8 F, and we had a couple of mornings that were in that range. Not unusual to have a stretch of 0 degrees F, or roughly -17.7 C. Trivia, -40C = -40F.
Dave

_likimeya November 22 2013, 23:11:58 UTC

Do you walk through that park every morning? It's beautiful.