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  1. Iceni
    My 83 year old Dad was asked to play a game of cricket by the warden of our church. He spent all afternoon searching the loft for his bat, pads and cricket sweater and eventually found them in a tin trunk. Came the big day and he was bowled out first over My mother observed this with a steely eye as he'd lost his temper several times when she couldn't remember where they might be.
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    Can't remember which winter it was, but I did that. Out they all came again a week later.
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    In that case, try installing Stellarium on your computer... you can do a replay and at the time you posted, the nearest bright star to the moon was Capella if it's the one above and West of the moon, Jupiter has been well to the East of the moon for most of this evening.
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    We had Spag Bol. My husband's turn to cook. But the worst is that we ran out of maple syrup on Tuesday and forgot to get any when we went shopping on Wednesday (we live miles from anywhere and have to limit our shopping to once a week). So I've gone 4 days without my maple syrup, bacon and eggs waffles. We bought this waffle iron a month ago and have them every morning and sometimes for supper with ice cream. So yummy.
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    This looks like fun... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/viral-video/10674984/Huge-snowball-fight-breaks-out-in-Washington-DC.html
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    Until the Julian Calender was changed to the Gregorian one (both Popes) Christmas Day on the 25th December would have been our 6th January. In the 16th Century, year by year, Easter was getting too close to early summer, when it was supposed to be in spring, so Pope Gregory deleted 11 days from the ecclesiastical year. Snow and cold is quite common during the first week of January, whereas in the final week of December (nearly two weeks beforehand) it isn't. Strangely, May * or Hawthorn blossom still comes into bloom around the end of the first or second week of May (the month). It was called 'May blossom' because it used to come into bloom during the last week of April/first week of May when the Julian Calender was in force. I always check the date as we have quite a few hawthorns in our garden and more often than not it comes into flower around the 10/11/12th May. It seems hawthorn trees didn't get the memo. * Not to be confused with the white blackthorn which is much earlier.
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    The moment you mention to caterers "it's a wedding" their prices go up 50%. We did a cunning trick by combining my Mum's 80th birthday party with our wedding reception (we'd married at a registry office the day before). Boy were the caterers p'd off when they realised... we spent the money on this brilliant Swing band called Swervy World instead.
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    All the snow's gone! This is Christina Lake, BC Canada... temperatures are currently above freezing at 1.7ºC. Elsewhere there's still a lot of snow, but it shows how powerful the sun is getting now to melt 3 foot of snow which was still there just a few days ago on a SW facing hillside. Light at the end of the tunnel as once N America/Canada warm up, it's bye bye to that dratted Polar Vortex which is giving us such a bad time.
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    Furious with husband. We have this lovely little wood-burner stove and usually get the wood from a tried and trusted supplier's estate in August (cost of a really big truck load £250 + £12 delivery and it lasts about 2 winters). This year, my husband thought he'd save a few quid and asked some farmer to bring a truck load over..., we got about 1/2 the amount of wood and it's turned out not to be seasoned, so doesn't burn properly.- this cost £200. So won't be any good until next year - meanwhile, we've got no wood which burns. There are a few big trees which have either broken off or have to come down as soon as the weather dries up, so they'd have seasoned for the next couple of winters anyway... KNEW he was making a mistake.
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    Well the Spinal Tap vile weather dial has been turned up to 11 today. Just the worst. Thank God they invented cars and Wellington boots. All I can say.
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    But a huge Greenie High is even better. We got the opposite.
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    No you're not. It's their fault for not liking snow. They deserve all they get. I'm a happy lady. I got up at 6 to nab a Marc Jacobs cashmere jumper on Ebay for £48. Talk about the early bird - mine was the only bid. And now it will be cold enough to wear it.
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    Did you have that staple gun thing done to you? OUCH! She had to give my another shot of local as it just didn't work. The radiotherapist was absolutely sweet and said she'd seen lots of cancers, and this wasn't anything like it. So that eased my mind before the ga biopsy a lot. Don't worry - they wouldn't make you wait that long if they thought there was a problem - you'd be having surgery done next week or be fast-tracked.
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    Just got the 4 x CD box set - 'True to the Blues' to mark his 70th birthday this year. There are 56 tracks on it and every one of them is a killer... really. I just can't wait for May! Thoroughly recommended http://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Blues-Johnny-Winter-Story/dp/B00GSGT7G8 Go on... treat yourself - you know you want to.
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    Best wishes for snowlady today.... The worrying wait is always worse than once they get going diagnosing and treatment (if any). My husband had cancer a couple of years ago and although he was fast-tracked, that 4 week wait for treatment and another 2 weeks afterwards for the scans and test results were far worse than the actual operation or the single chemo dose (although it wasn't exactly fun). Fingers crossed, he's passed the 18-month recurrence thing about 5 months ago. Tamara - you seem to be a photographer and an excellent sculptress as well as your meteorological expertise.... is there no end to your talents? I love the one with the sea in the background and the snow cat is fabulous.
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    This is the only Winter I'm going to see this year - got the tickets yesterday, but got to go to Lyon.... oh well it will be worth it - he's the BEST.
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    Know the feeling. All I've bothered to look at is where that polar vortex is and has been since November. There's no point in hoping for a change while it's there. And actually this mild winter has had its compensations - my watercress has carried on growing under a fleece in an unheated greenhouse so I've still been able to have it (even when you can't buy fresh bunches of watercress in the supermarket) so I won't need to sow it and start again. The lettuces and winter salads in the grow bag haven't needed a fleece at all - they actually like cool conditions. The snowdrops, crocuses and hellebores are magnificent this year. I was looking out of our kitchen window this morning thinking how pretty they all looked under the plum tree. And of course, the birds have started singing again. I stopped for several minutes to listen to the most beautiful thrush warbling away this afternoon.
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    Chilly enough to freeze 8 inches of mud solid? Every track around our garden is now impassable - even with a 4x4 - you need a tractor.
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    That's the one my husband noticed. I know it was fairly recent. The most spectacular one was in Athens. We'd messed up our flight home from Syros and stayed overnight in the multi-storey hotel. I was just drifting off to sleep, about 6 floors up when I felt the rumbling tremor - just one - lasting about 10 seconds - I thought a heavy lorry had gone past but then thought "Don't be silly you wouldn't notice that 6 floors up". No one else had noticed a thing the next morning at breakfast and we flew home. We'd been home about 36 hours when Athens was hit by a massive quake - it was in August 1999. So I felt very lucky, but wished I'd said something as a few people were killed and there was a lot of damage.
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    There have been 10 earthquakes in the last 50 days - which is quite a low incidence, usually there are @ 15-20 of them. As the Richter Scale is a logarithmic one., a 4 magnitude quake is minor compared to a 6 or 7 which is when damage would occur. People only detect them over Mag 3. http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/home.html A few years ago there was one in or near Suffolk, because we live in a timber-frame house, my husband upstairs noticed it, but I was in the kitchen and didn't feel a thing - we looked it up and apparently it was a 2.8. We''re not on the edge of a tectonic plate so it's just rocks undergoing natural settlement sometimes quite near the surface or thousands of metres below ground Don't PANIC!.
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    I reckon learning to use a computer is just like learning to drive a car. You either can do it or you fail every driving test into your 40s - it's nature's way of saying, this technology is not for you.
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    It's simple. The MetO is a quango and it tells its paymasters (the government) what the government wants to hear... if they can't in all honesty do that and still be taken seriously by the public, they shave bits and pieces off and spin it. We are paying a LOT of money in green taxes and any way the Govt can justify this daylight robbery and continue to collect it and can be justified is very good news (for them). Every heard of that saying "Whoever pays the Piper, calls the Tune"?
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    Yes the wind before the squall hit was quite fun. It had been totally calm and I heard a lovely thrush singing for the first time this year, then when the squall was about 1/4 mile away, this swirly updraft (or downdraft?) hit us and we ran for the car. Opened the back of the Landy, both dogs jumped in and we set off home again. Sorry dogs... yesterday was a swizz. PS My 5 year old niece came home from school and said her teacher had read them 'The Wind in the Willies'.
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    I don't see the point - either tell both the public and councils or admit defeat and don't predict a whole season predominant weather at all. Councils will spend according to MetO advice infinitely more on preparation for a particular sort of winter than the public - say if they'd predicted Winter 13/14 correctly, I might have bought that nice mac in the sale, or invested in some really good wellies, if I should have bought snow stuff, no harm done. But councils spend millions of our council tax and government money - so in a macro-economic sense, it's worse.
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    Saw one just like that yesterday - just walking the dogs down the hill in a field and there this huge ominous black line squall was (a line squall was what the skipper of this sailing yacht we holidayed on called them). Of course we turned around and just managed to get back to the car as it began to rain. I was quite worried about thunder, as my Black Lab is terrified of it and might just run off, but luckily there wasn't any. Just more rain... as if we needed it. I have to walk them on this farm hillside now as everywhere else is too slippery and there's 6" mud.
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