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It's a fact of country life that when you live in an older house you will encounter mice. This usually happens as the winter draws in and the cold damp air drives them inside. However there is always an exception to the norm and that was last night. Both happily sat watching TV when we were disturbed by a noise under the kitchen sink. Closer investigation revealed a young mouse trapped inside our undersink bin, jumping for all his worth he was just unable to clear the top edge and escape. Feeling a little compassion for the small fellow I removed the bin and went outside to release him. One small point I over-looked was that the local cat was sat under our garden bench, no sooner had I released the mouse on the lawn the cat had shot past me at high speed chasing the mouse under a nearby hedge. The cat emerged triumphant and I was left feeling a little guilty, but in the end I guess it is all just natures way.

After a day on Hampshire storm watch, nothing to report. A real shame, the day started well, it had already been raining when I got out of bed at 8am (some of us do sleep-in in the Country) so with a bit of thundery cloud about I really felt there was every chance of a storm at some point in the day. A mid-afternoon trip to the dentist for the first stage of a crown fitting did nothing to improve the day especially as it was stinkingly hot in the small surgery room even though two fans were going flat out. Back in a fortnight for the final fit (glum face) One small highlight and slightly weather related. The car park I parked in was the site of some high drama. A fire engine came screaming into the car park all lights blazing after it's short trip of about 750 yards from the fire station, to attend to a car which was overheating, appeared to be dripping petrol and in danger of catching fire, it was just a shame the fire station was so close as the very old astra was saved from the flames before they even got going. Good Job Boys!

It's been a long busy and hot weekend. Saturday's main event was a trip across the road to the village pub to see the football, but ended up being a chance to catch up on the local gossip from all the people in the village I hadn't seen for a while. Sank a few beers in the local before retiring to my Brother in Law's for a bar-b-que and a few more beers - the evening weather was ideal for this warm and sunny with a nice breeze. Woke early Sunday to a bright hot morning but it soon started to cloud up. Travelled down the Somerset in the afternoon for my Grandma's 80th birthday, another bar-b-que! weather here was more cloud-free than back home but by late afternoon the clouds had filled in and the sky darkened, really looked stormy, but by the time we left, just after nine, we had only seen a few spots of rain. The journey home was dry and still just light as we approched Stonehenge. I know several of the local farmers were hoping to have some hay making done over the weekend, I sure they managed to get done what they had planned.

19c very bright and sunny some thin patchy high level cloud (as my picture left)

Hampshire 16.35 Thunder heard here, storm looks to be slightly South East. Sun still too bright to see any lightning.

Shut down the pc last night after my inital report as lights started dimming. Storm passed over with various sheet and fork lightning, this lasted about an hour, one burst of really heavy rain and the odd bit of rain inbetween. Expected more rain considering the amount of thunder and lightning. Lightning was still visable in the distance (SW) up to 10.30pm. Great to see a decent if fairly typical thunderstorm again.

thunder and lightning Middle Wallop hants. no rain yet

Fantastic stuff Guys, great pictures, just love it all ! but oh so jealous...

light snow flakes / snizzle mix at various times since first light until about now (11am) when the sun has suddenly decided to appear ! :lol:

Few flakes in the wind a little while ago, now stopped. Flakes fell at the rate of oh. there's one...and there's another...a few more...oh it stopped. But they were a nice size (about 10p) and it keeps us out of that exclusive club Abingdon is in :-)

Woke at 6.15am light dusting of snow on roofs and cars. Went back to bed and got back up at 10am (lovely lye-in ) only to find the snow had gone and it looked like it hadn't even been here!

Snow flurry / short shower in Middle Wallop Hants. Looking dark and showery to North dispite nothing showing on the Met O radar

Started grey but dry this morning. Snow started around 10am and continued until well past lunch, always steady but fairly mainly small flakes, stopped for a while before returning as rain. Now have a sleety mix. Never settled on anything at any time during the day.

Breezy, feels cold, showers, just had one that turned to hail and became very squawly

light snow / snow grains, Middle Wallop Hants. Car says outside air temp is currently -2 degrees

Middle Wallop Airfield reporting snow at 8am this morning according to Met obs. page, must have blinked and missed it. Been -1 or lower all day so I guess officially an ice day here. Just to add to this: Have just been looking at the observations page on the Met Office site and the following two locations are currently reporting snow: Wittering in the Midlands Coltishall in the Eastern Counties

finally after a long wait Sleet / Snow steady but wet. Hoping it carries on towards snow

There are children in my village that had not seen snow till last week, so even tonight's little none event is still worth noting, and yes it's still snowing here so we should have a York Moors type covering by the end of Feb at this rate :-)

still have steady light snow, a little heavier than earlier post. Must be fairly local as I can't see any echoes for it on the Met radar

Very light snow falling, never seen it fall so slow. Flakes just bigger than ants