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Chance I might get some decent winter walking in over the Christmas break then. Hopefully some snow but I’ll take frost and drying out underfoot if it’s on offer though.

I try and keep out of the mad thread as the cherry picking of charts to suit individual agendas gets on my nerves so what’s all this talk of some proper winter weather on its way. is it another Daily Express garden path exercise or is something really brewing.

Aye I forgot about that bit of a do.

Now there’s a thought seriously though if many more matches are called off I think we looking at a full suspension of league fixtures in the new year, probably coinciding with some sort of lockdown.

Cheers mate, I fancied us to sneak all 3 points tonight but we’ll never know now. anyway we hopefully go again at Villa Park on Saturday with the small matter of yourselves then on Boxing Day although no doubt we will be under full shoot on site lockdown by then

At least I heard it was postponed on the way home from work rather than after fighting through the snow before they called off the game with Spurs. At least I can eat my tea at a better pace rather than wolfing it as would have been the case otherwise.

The best day’s weather for what seems ages. plenty of bright sunshine and although not overly warm, it certainly felt pleasant enough outside, just a shame I was working. anyway it would have been a decent evening for a rush home from work, a quick bit of tea and off to the football until a Covid outbreak in the Watford team cancelled our game so it looks like my first experience of being checked for my Covid status will have to wait until Boxing Day.

Hope everything is ok with your mum mate and that the rest of you keep clear of it. as for the booster, I had mine late November and had a carbon copy reaction to my wife who had hers the day before. first 8 hours or so were fine then about 24 hours of feeling shoit before suddenly perking up again and all the time with an arm that felt like it had been hit with a brick. I have spoken to a few mates who all had a similar experience and it certainly seems like the booster gives more side affects than the two before it. knowing what I know now and given the fact that it doesn’t offer any of the freedoms promised at the time I may have said enough is enough and I’ll take my chance.

Haven’t bothered to look outside but judging by the noise on the conservatory roof, the heavy stuff has reached here.

Always makes me laugh when things like this happen to untouchable organisations. Some “expert” probably only had that one job to do today but still managed to (pardon the pun) it up.

well after making it to Turf Moor and watching that bore fest, maybe I needed a fall of snow and a postponed game. a point is a point and I’ve had took it at the start of the game but that’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back. can’t wait for Wednesday when the Covid jobsworths will be salivating at the thought of inspecting vaccination status. they could hardly contain themselves with excitement just doing a few random checks outside the ground.

Still pretty much wall to wall cloud but a bit brighter now than earlier. off to the football shortly but thankfully no chance of a repeat of the last trip where a struggle through heavy snow ended with a postponed game.

Cloudy crap up here with the tops fully hidden, something which usually means we can’t even make the most of the mild when it’s on offer.

Yeah it’s amazing how much benefit we get get in the UK and NW Europe from the Gulf Stream. Manchester lies at the same latitude as the treeless tundra at the southern end of Hudson Bay and even regions hundreds of miles south of there are too cold to sustain any sort of agriculture so even though our boring mild winters are a sore point with most who long for snow; our position at the end of a four thousand mile river of warmish water is the only reason why our country and those to our northeast are even economically viable.

Remember packing for full winter conditions the first time we went to New York and it was 18c at 8pm on the first evening. day two was a damp and misty northwest England type of day but then then a cold front came through that evening and the remaining few days of the holiday were cold and clear and much more what we expected for early December. shame we never saw any snow though as I imagine Central Park would look brilliant with a thin covering of snow.

As is usually the case with a northwesterly flow, the showers are crossing just a few miles to my south. not that I’m complaining though as it’s nice to actually see the ground dry.

Either that or she completely got her days wrong.

That would be a substantial 24 hour total of rain in the central lakes but an amazing amount for the Pennines. it also shows how much can fall in a shower stream as our nearest stations which are little more than 10 miles north only received 20mm over the same period.

Thankfully it didn’t seem to like it here and quickly sodded off over the other side of the Pennines. It must have thought it was snow

Yeah it’s reached here now.

Not the best of days here but rain was more of nuisance value than anything else. glad I wasn’t under stuck under than feed of showers running across Bowland and up the Ribble Valley pretty much since first light.

Very windy and wet throughout the night here and can still hear the rain belting against the windows.

Appreciate that other parts of the region have had damage from the high winds but it’s been no more than a breezy day here and we are usually quite exposed from the south west and west. as for the snow warning, until today I can’t remember ever having one when I didn’t actually see a single flake of snow but as already said, probably edging their bets after failing to notice the deteriorating conditions during the storm a couple of weekends back.

Not the best day for it but with my missus only just getting over a cold, both of us both being on holiday and me suffering from cabin fever it’s time for a mooch around the shops.

Just for a second I was wondering why you were looking at Viagra i need to get my eyes tested