Are You A Secret Lamp Post Watcher ? (Snow)

[mcweather]

OMG this is nuts,as a child i used to spend hours wathing the lampost outside our house,then when i had to go to bed i used to sneak a torch upstairs and hold it against the window to see sleet or snow, it used to drive mum nuts. And yes now i also get in the car to see if any rain is turning to snow, its just now the missus thinks im nuts.

Believe me 80's weather you weren't the only one.

[Cymro]

We should give lampost watching a proper Term because we all do it, Something more refined Any suggestions?

Lamping?, Snowpostin?

[paul tall]

I like snowposting.

[Nick.F]

Lamping sounds a little dirty...

I like it.

[Cymro]

Haha it does doesn't it, I'm just going lamping

[donna-m]

Snowposting

[Nick.F]

Hello, fancy a lamp?

great chat up line for all sexes, and the ones in between.

[Cymro]

Haha, Looks like we should use Snowposting? Anyone agree? Lamping will just cause confusion and could offend people without a sense of humour <_<

[Nick.F]

darn it!

[Guest]

I suppose the obvious extension of this is how many lamp-posts can you watch from your house?? I have at least 5 different options, some close by, some almost half a mile away.

[andy_leics22]

I suppose the obvious extension of this is how many lamp-posts can you watch from your house?? I have at least 5 different options, some close by, some almost half a mile away.

3 from my bedroom window. There is one just across the road and it's served me well over the years (That sounds so sad lmao) But it's not the best possible light, it's one of those old orange glow ones, there is street lights on the road at the bottom of mine that has those new big bright white ones and when it snows it really shows up up under them and looks amazing.

[Cookie]

Indeed, our other halfs just don't understand do they?

agreed

[Zenarcher]

Living in the town on the island there are street lights where I live. There's a few outside my house one of them blew away in January but it got replaced for another winter!

[noggin]

Hello, fancy a lamp?

<_<

It's got to be "lamping", it's just got to be!

[ickledoozer]

I am an avid lamp post watcher, I have 3 vantage points from my house, kitchen window, lounge window and bedroom window and I often check throughout the night!!

I find I take a quick look and then I pause (possibly holding my breath) and squint, just to make sure! he he!

[LomondSnowstorm]

Definitely lamping : 'goin oot laampin the moro's nicht?'

[noggin]

Haha, Looks like we should use Snowposting? Anyone agree? Lamping will just cause confusion and could offend people without a sense of humour

I shall definitely be Lamping.....far more fun than Snowposting. <_<

[Cymro]

Well Lamping is my favourite to be honest :lol: , O'r as we would say in the mother tounge, Lampio

So are we all going to be lamping within the next three days? I've already started lamping and nothing really forcast for here untill atleast thursday, I just love lamping, I'm a Lamper always have been and I always will be :P

[noggin]

I just love lamping, I'm a Lamper always have been and I always will be :P

A born Lamper. Born to lamp. It sounds so right :lol: !

[Cymro]

A born Lamper. Born to lamp. It sounds so right !

Haha we're hogging this convo with our terminology

Typicall lampers, Got to keep everything precise that littlest bit of graupel/drizzle/snizzle and we're under the lampost doing what's best, Lamping, neighbours look at us stupidly well they look at me weirdly :lol: I shall tell them I'm a Lamper

[coldfingers]

Indeed, our other halfs just don't understand do they?

Having been married to me for a quarter of a century now my husband has at last realised he is a weather widower.

Heavy rain, strong winds, frost, ice, snow, floods, hail, all mean I will give him reason for a divorce on the grounds of desertion.

Amazingly he takes it in his stride and forgives me, but snow? That strains his patience to the limit as I become as excited as a puppy, insisting he takes me out for 'walkies'. I do promise not to leave any yellow stains in all the lovely white snow though. :lol:

Thanks everyone who has contributed to this thread, I really needed a good laugh and this site never fails me.

The other addiction of course is watching every run of the GFS, sweating in case it is all downgraded at the last minute.

Edited December 15, 2009 by coldfingers

[lottiekent]

2 lampposts within spotting distance for me though none out of the bedroom window...have to come all the way downstairs just to have a look. Worth the effort though! My neighbours already think I'm mad after seeing me popping in and out every 5 seconds in the summer looking for lightning so don't think they'll think twice about seeing me indulging in some Lamping :lol:

[Altohumorous]

What an insane and wonderful thread! :lol:

"When I was just a little boy, I asked my mother, what would I be, will I be...............a lamper? :lol:

Yes many, many dark hors watching those lamps, those sodium orangey lamps of the suburbs where I grew up (many times), the old fashioned backyard lamp at our house (shrouded in snow sometimes), the white-light lamps at my aunt and uncle's place near Burton on Trent (1978), the lamps outside my brother's house in Swords (March 24th late 80sish), the lamps outside my schools, and as I got older and more adventurous, the big lamps of the city centre. Now I have new lamps to look out at, but I've never seen snow fall in their glow.

My best memory of lamping was of course 1982. The Met service here said, in their 6pm shipping forecast, that rain sleet and snow would affect southernmost areas. By 9.30 that night, even the lamps in the street were talking a different story, and the rest is history

[noggin]

Haha we're hogging this convo with our terminology :lol:

Well, there ain't any snow to talk about. :lol:

I am quite lamped off!

I am off to bed now, and will be back lamping tomorrow.

"Lamping". It's so much easier and quicker to say than "I am going to stand stock-still and peer at the glow from my local lamp-post to see if I can spot any snowflakes."

Why go through all that palaver when a simple "I am going lamping" will suffice?

I really am going to bed now. See y'all tomorrow. :w00t:

[Cymro]

Oh the lampost outside is Shinning

And the posters their all whining

But since we've no place to go

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

When we finally ventured out

Oh we hate settling down with some tea

As long as we laff and shout

The snow flakes will come you'll see

Oh the lampost outside is shinning

Is there flakes, I can see flakes, their falling

I'm a lamper and proud to be so

Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow

When we finally go to bed

after contributing to this thread

Our minds are almost dead

Thinking of snow instead

Oh the lampost ouside is dimming

The cutbacks, the council are saving

We're lampers and Proud to be so

Let it snow, Let it snow Let it snow

Ok I got carried away :lol: