General Chat

We’re like Shirley, a sprinkling that’s thawing with the fine rain.
Our neighbour’s daughter has asked us to check on her mother as there’s a problem with her phone (again). The daughter lives somewhere in Herefordshire & its thick there. She made sure they had sufficient food & don’t need to go out.

Had about 8cm, stopped at the moment but more forecast for this afternoon.


18:18 Update: it didn't arrive, now gently thawing.

Still snowing here and laying/sticking on the garden but not on the patio, slush on the road in our cul de sac.

Had a light flurry of snow earlier
Cat wanted out for his usual look around but didn't like the snow tipping his nose so thought he would survey from the open door of the lounge

Got narked when I said no .in or out your decision
He decided in was better .

He has been on the kitchen window ledge checking out the front in case it was different from back garden .

Eaten his felix in jelly and now snoozing on one of the dining chairs
Has a loving cosy padded cat bed but nope the chair is flavour of the week

It's melting off now so he may venture out eventually
He needs to check his patch sometime !!

Very, very heavy rain here and wild winds through the Channel making the rain beat hard against the windows.

Not a day to venture far..........

Started snowing at 07.30 in mid Essex after heavy rain and still going steadily, about 4cm settled so far.

we have a lovely sunny day after 3 days of fog ........... but it is chilly out there!

not quite long john weather, but not far off needing them!

Namelessone

It's a clear night tonight across the Channel.
The French harbour lights were clearly visible this evening.

Car showed outside temperature at zero, as we travelled home from shopping in Canterbury.

Daughter got caught with Roaming phone rates once, when she was helping out at a Cub summer camp in the eastern most part of Kent.
Luckily she had witnesses and various receipts, which placed her firmly in Kent.

I’ve just got home after a day at Cromer. The wind always blows off the North Sea there but, by golly, it was cold today and there were some high old waves coming in. We are forecast snow tomorrow so I expect everything will grind to a halt as usual.

Last time I went on the beach under the cliffs at Dover the mobile phone changed from the UK network to the French.
Made sure we didn't make a call and get charged at "Roaming" rate.
Still no snow in Essex or Herts but coming back from Herts this afternoon the car was showing the outside temperature at 1 C.

On a clear night you could watch the traffic lights in Calais turn from red to green and back again.
If you lived in the right part of Dover you could tune in to French tv.

We moved away before mobile phones came into everyday use.

Namelessone- not sure about the Spitsbergen viability, but weird things do happen with mobile phone signals.

Although it may have changed now, you soon learned to turn your phone off at Joss Bay. (That’s near Broadstairs.) If you forgot, you’d receive a text message welcoming you to a Belgium network. :-S

Rollo that took me back to when we sang that when I was in a choir, I can't remember which choir, it could have been school or Sunday school, I shall be singing it in my head now. (best it stays there as I doubt I could reach the top notes these days!)

I remember the snow of 1947 and 1963. 47 I walked to school, normally a bus journey and the schools did not close. '63 I pushed my daughter in her big pram to the shops through the snow. OH had to fight his way to work down snowbound country roads, The RN would not accept snow as a reason for not getting there.

Joy

MY OH went to college in the North East and found Kent to be much colder Never wore a coat up there , wore a heavy winter coat in East Kent.

He always reckoned that there was a spot in Ramsgate where, if you looked in the right direction, the nearest landfall was Spitzbergen. He never got around to proving it but is was a very , very, verrry coooooold spot.

Joy, that’s why we’re called Soft Suvverners :-D

Its Baltic here in the north east Even the ponds frozen over solid

When I lived in Kent your Winters where like our Spring
I only wore my coat twice in a year down there

I have it on everyday here :-D :-D :-D

We moved to East Kent in the 70's from west London.

I was working in Dover and thought the locals had gone completely mad when they panicked about 1 flake of snow. ( How was I to know that you couldn't get up the hills when it snowed).

I also thought it odd that the farmers were doing their fencing in the middle of winter - I soon learnt what snow fences were!

Rollo

I was introduced to those words set to music, when in junior school and our class tuned in to Singing Together on the radio.
I still remember most of them.

There are a lot of very distinct variations in weather within just a few miles around here.
Near the sea and south of the higher ground, they usually escape the worst of the snow. Just over the brow of the hill, maybe 2 miles away it could be piled up high, where people have cleared a route through.

Brilliant sunshine today. I haven't been out yet............

Darned cold in Winchester :-|

I live on a hill- the wind blasted away.
The high street in town - just a wind tunnel :-| :-|

Yes I do remember one unusual time when we had a big snowfall and the trains didn't run was probably the 1987 one
I worked in London and couldn't get to work all week
They salted the roads but the cul de sac at the back of the house was very deep in snow so you couldn't get the garage doors open or drive out

We were running out of milk and bread and hubby decided to try to walk to the shops to get some. One neighbor decided to get everyone out to dig out the clue de sac to get access but hubby wasn't home which was a bit like we were copping out

But he came back in time and helped

He lost money not getting to work

I had to take the week as holiday