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  1. Skip Spence
    What we're seeing is bog standard UK winter weather. 2009/10 and in particular Dec 2010 were unusual to say the least. I can understand why some are disappointed but no one should be surprised. This is just the type of revolting crap we can expect at any time of the year. More's the pity.
  2. Skip Spence
    Must agree with the Ponce. Largely hideous apart from the end of March, end of May and end of July. Unbelievable amount of rain from mid April to date. Apart from the pleasant spell end July, no summer. Again. All in all, even worse than usual; and usual's plenty bad enough.
  3. Skip Spence
    Hi. Just down the hill (Lyneham Banks) from you in Dauntsey Vale. Seems to be pepping up again now after a quieter spell earlier. Avon flows at the bottom of my garden; highest I've seen it last Wednesday but in truth it's been high regularly since April. A dry spell would be much appreciated for sure.
  4. Skip Spence
    It's all been downhill since Suzanne Charlton left. I'll get me coat.
  5. Skip Spence
    Fascinating. Like Styx I react in a similar way but to certain smells rather than sounds. The most evocative/provocative for me being the smell produced by rain on city streets after a lengthy warm dry spell. Another is the smell of brand new CD booklets opened for the first time. Sometimes these can produce an almost hallucinatory state of bliss. Especially when I've forgotten to take my anti-psychotic meds.
  6. Skip Spence
    And yet in mid-October it appears to be perfectly reasonable to suggest that we might just as well be in Lapland for three months come the end of November.
  7. Skip Spence
    A repeat of summer 2003 would be most acceptable.
  8. Skip Spence
    In my neck of the woods, there seems to have been a sharp rise in the number of squirrels over the last coupla months. My garden's teeming with the critters; way more than usual. And yes, the back roads are littered with the less fortunate ones. But then I guess more squirrels generally equates to more road kill.
  9. Skip Spence
    Not enough sunshine or warmth
  10. Skip Spence
    We were due a good summer this year. Sadly, good summers in the UK are hard to come by and getting rarer by the year.
  11. Skip Spence
    Lengthy electrical storm just come to an end; directly overhead for a time with all the expected action. Best one here in quite some time.
  12. Skip Spence
    As a lover of sunshine and warmth I'm beginning to feel the will to live slowly draining from my soul. Obviously, one doesn't have wildly high expectations of a British summer but this one really does suck the big one. It'll be with enormous relief that I leave for Kefalonia shortly for a few weeks of much needed respite from this interminably crap weather.
  13. Skip Spence
    -1.5c now (after a low of -10c) and snowing steadily. Started about 20 mins ago and beginning to settle.
  14. Skip Spence
    Gin-clear and -10c at 06:30, coldest since Christmas morning 2010. Overcast now, could be interesting later.
  15. Skip Spence
    Crystal clear and -9c at 07.00, coldest since christmas day 2010
  16. Skip Spence
    All together now "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"-5c at 07.30, nice rime too
  17. Skip Spence
    -4 here this morn, coldest so far this winter; still a smidge on the grass now. Btw TM, is that Trout Mask Replica lurking in your avatar?
  18. Skip Spence
    Ahhhh.........remember that spell very well, bliss. Got married on 3 August in Bath, roasting hot day and later on got stung in the mouth sharing a can of Stella with a wasp. Turned out to be a prescient omen. Apart from 76 and 2003, probably the best August I can remember.
  19. Skip Spence
    When people recall 1976 weather-wise, they're unlikely to be thinking 'cold'.
  20. Skip Spence
    Yeah, it's a strange one for sure. This is potentially a pretty cold spot here in Dauntsey Vale on the banks of the Avon; -15c last christmas morning. Can't say I'm too disappointed though, starting to fantasize about the prospects of a long hot summer already.
  21. Skip Spence
    Grass continues to grow, wasp wandering around groggily on the decking yesterday, quite a few ladybirds and amazingly, a couple of rogue tomatoes ripening in outside pots. This morning was 20c up on this time last year.
  22. Skip Spence
    I assume that's a pop at us hopelessly soft southerners; good to see the old "north south divide" is alive and kicking. Actually, I did a fair amount of shovel-wielding last December living out in the sticks miles from any main road. Guess it was bracing and all that but I'd sooner be in the garden, 30c with a drink and a good book.
  23. Skip Spence
    Of course the UK won't experience months of sub-zero conditions but you've implied throughout this thread that you'd welcome precisely that. It's a simple point really; prolonged extremely cold snowy conditions are very disruptive.
  24. Skip Spence
    Months of grey skies and drizzle is certainly a drag but crucially, it doesn't really interfere with day to day life.Unlike several months of sub-zero snowy conditions. Quite apart from the general hassle involved with getting around we'd probably be looking at food/fuel shortages after a while and the economy would surely end up in an even more parlous state.
  25. Skip Spence
    Because it would seem that a great many weather-enthusiasts are attracted to extreme conditions, ergo many will favour extreme cold, the very notion of which would fill the overwhelming majority of non-enthusiasts with dread. Not sure what you're getting at re the white coats.
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