|
|
UK from space, all snow covered
|
UK from space, all snow covered
Quite impressive and eye opening, Rocky I don't believe the majority was prepared for that hard a blow. Looks more like Iceland to me, only you are not that far north, especially not in the southern part of the country. A large portion of the States is also under the spell of this cold weather, where it normally shouldn't be. We keep praying for relief... Harry. "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today
just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove
it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
Ain't that the truth, it's gently falling down here now and I've got the
son-in-law and his cousin working in my kitchen putting up a new light as the old one died a death and it's not very good trying to cook without light g I'll be glad when it gives over I haven't been out the house for ages g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
Been coming down again all morning here, though apparently not in (North)
London, which since the East and South are supposed to be worst hit today... Last Wednesdays grocery delivery happened yesterday (including a nice Aussie Peanut Gringo), last Friday's firewood delivery happened Thursday (because the arboriculture persons were unable to do the work that was previously a barrier to it). But still no sign of the coal (and I burn the firewood on top of coal, which without is a serious waste of logs. Today I'm thinking of using summer's unused charcoal for the purpose. I don't suppose it will explode. Much). I'm sure we Brits are familiar with the idea that we remember one or two hot summers or cold winters in our childhood as much more frequent, and we really didn't have that many glorious balmy summers or White Christmases. No doubt it is the impression those atypical seasons made on us (like our distorted body image based on the relative sensitivity of the organs etc, i.e. the Cortical Homunculus): which is probably the way childhood itself impinges on our still-forming consciousness, where periods of a year or two feel more like half a dozen or more (like the length of time one thought this popular music combo or other were the greatest thing since unsliced bread). Yet this snow does seem to me the way it frequently was when I was a kid. Consequently it seems like 'belated business as usual'. Me "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
I was lucky and got my grocery delivery on it's due date and my oil tank it
about half full so that's OK, I've always got the open fire if needs be, my coal bunker is ¾ full. Mind you it depends on how things go in the next couple of days whether my next grocery delivery will get through, we didn't get a refuse collection last week so I hope they make it this week don't really have anywhere to store too many rubbish bags to keep them safe from the roaming animals and the seagulls and crows. Well at least I now have light in my kitchen, yippee g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... Been coming down again all morning here, though apparently not in (North) London, which since the East and South are supposed to be worst hit today... Last Wednesdays grocery delivery happened yesterday (including a nice Aussie Peanut Gringo), last Friday's firewood delivery happened Thursday (because the arboriculture persons were unable to do the work that was previously a barrier to it). But still no sign of the coal (and I burn the firewood on top of coal, which without is a serious waste of logs. Today I'm thinking of using summer's unused charcoal for the purpose. I don't suppose it will explode. Much). I'm sure we Brits are familiar with the idea that we remember one or two hot summers or cold winters in our childhood as much more frequent, and we really didn't have that many glorious balmy summers or White Christmases. No doubt it is the impression those atypical seasons made on us (like our distorted body image based on the relative sensitivity of the organs etc, i.e. the Cortical Homunculus): which is probably the way childhood itself impinges on our still-forming consciousness, where periods of a year or two feel more like half a dozen or more (like the length of time one thought this popular music combo or other were the greatest thing since unsliced bread). Yet this snow does seem to me the way it frequently was when I was a kid. Consequently it seems like 'belated business as usual'. Me "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
So they refused to collect your refuse? Typical.
Anyway. Any chance you could email me a bucket of coal, Joan? "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... I was lucky and got my grocery delivery on it's due date and my oil tank it about half full so that's OK, I've always got the open fire if needs be, my coal bunker is ¾ full. Mind you it depends on how things go in the next couple of days whether my next grocery delivery will get through, we didn't get a refuse collection last week so I hope they make it this week don't really have anywhere to store too many rubbish bags to keep them safe from the roaming animals and the seagulls and crows. Well at least I now have light in my kitchen, yippee g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... Been coming down again all morning here, though apparently not in (North) London, which since the East and South are supposed to be worst hit today... Last Wednesdays grocery delivery happened yesterday (including a nice Aussie Peanut Gringo), last Friday's firewood delivery happened Thursday (because the arboriculture persons were unable to do the work that was previously a barrier to it). But still no sign of the coal (and I burn the firewood on top of coal, which without is a serious waste of logs. Today I'm thinking of using summer's unused charcoal for the purpose. I don't suppose it will explode. Much). I'm sure we Brits are familiar with the idea that we remember one or two hot summers or cold winters in our childhood as much more frequent, and we really didn't have that many glorious balmy summers or White Christmases. No doubt it is the impression those atypical seasons made on us (like our distorted body image based on the relative sensitivity of the organs etc, i.e. the Cortical Homunculus): which is probably the way childhood itself impinges on our still-forming consciousness, where periods of a year or two feel more like half a dozen or more (like the length of time one thought this popular music combo or other were the greatest thing since unsliced bread). Yet this snow does seem to me the way it frequently was when I was a kid. Consequently it seems like 'belated business as usual'. Me "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
I'd willingly let you have a couple of buckets if it was that easy g
Apparently the refuse wasn't collected because at the beginning of the week it was too icy and when it got to our day, Thursday, the refuse men were being sent to help out with gritting g they are supposed to be starting to collect from tomorrow so we'll have to wait and see if they get to us this Thursday. -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... So they refused to collect your refuse? Typical. Anyway. Any chance you could email me a bucket of coal, Joan? "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... I was lucky and got my grocery delivery on it's due date and my oil tank it about half full so that's OK, I've always got the open fire if needs be, my coal bunker is ¾ full. Mind you it depends on how things go in the next couple of days whether my next grocery delivery will get through, we didn't get a refuse collection last week so I hope they make it this week don't really have anywhere to store too many rubbish bags to keep them safe from the roaming animals and the seagulls and crows. Well at least I now have light in my kitchen, yippee g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... Been coming down again all morning here, though apparently not in (North) London, which since the East and South are supposed to be worst hit today... Last Wednesdays grocery delivery happened yesterday (including a nice Aussie Peanut Gringo), last Friday's firewood delivery happened Thursday (because the arboriculture persons were unable to do the work that was previously a barrier to it). But still no sign of the coal (and I burn the firewood on top of coal, which without is a serious waste of logs. Today I'm thinking of using summer's unused charcoal for the purpose. I don't suppose it will explode. Much). I'm sure we Brits are familiar with the idea that we remember one or two hot summers or cold winters in our childhood as much more frequent, and we really didn't have that many glorious balmy summers or White Christmases. No doubt it is the impression those atypical seasons made on us (like our distorted body image based on the relative sensitivity of the organs etc, i.e. the Cortical Homunculus): which is probably the way childhood itself impinges on our still-forming consciousness, where periods of a year or two feel more like half a dozen or more (like the length of time one thought this popular music combo or other were the greatest thing since unsliced bread). Yet this snow does seem to me the way it frequently was when I was a kid. Consequently it seems like 'belated business as usual'. Me "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
UK from space, all snow covered
How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so 1950's
to us. Mind you, I would be quite happy not to have to go out in minus 20C weather. We have piped in natural gas for the furnace, so other than a major explosion somewhere, no problems for heat. If the hydro (electricity) went down, we would have NO water, furnace or lights. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the above. I think not having hydro was worse than water.........at least I could buy bottled stuff. Oh, and can't use our fireplace because in 22 years we have never had a chimney sweep clean it out and won't use it until we do. 3 doors down had a fire in the walls caused by the creosote buildup and the idiots didn't have any insurance. It is MANDATORY if one has a mortgage, so not sure how they got around that one. As no one seems to be working in that family, I can only assume they are on Social Assistance (PC word for welfare). I could go online and order groceries to be delivered, but somehow just can't do it. I want to see what I am buying!! Sunny, but cold here........Heather "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... I was lucky and got my grocery delivery on it's due date and my oil tank it about half full so that's OK, I've always got the open fire if needs be, my coal bunker is ¾ full. Mind you it depends on how things go in the next couple of days whether my next grocery delivery will get through, we didn't get a refuse collection last week so I hope they make it this week don't really have anywhere to store too many rubbish bags to keep them safe from the roaming animals and the seagulls and crows. Well at least I now have light in my kitchen, yippee g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in message ... Been coming down again all morning here, though apparently not in (North) London, which since the East and South are supposed to be worst hit today... Last Wednesdays grocery delivery happened yesterday (including a nice Aussie Peanut Gringo), last Friday's firewood delivery happened Thursday (because the arboriculture persons were unable to do the work that was previously a barrier to it). But still no sign of the coal (and I burn the firewood on top of coal, which without is a serious waste of logs. Today I'm thinking of using summer's unused charcoal for the purpose. I don't suppose it will explode. Much). I'm sure we Brits are familiar with the idea that we remember one or two hot summers or cold winters in our childhood as much more frequent, and we really didn't have that many glorious balmy summers or White Christmases. No doubt it is the impression those atypical seasons made on us (like our distorted body image based on the relative sensitivity of the organs etc, i.e. the Cortical Homunculus): which is probably the way childhood itself impinges on our still-forming consciousness, where periods of a year or two feel more like half a dozen or more (like the length of time one thought this popular music combo or other were the greatest thing since unsliced bread). Yet this snow does seem to me the way it frequently was when I was a kid. Consequently it seems like 'belated business as usual'. Me "Mart" wrote in message ... Thanks Rocky - unfortunately we don't really need a satellite shot to prove it - we only need to look out of the window g But thanks guys, for thinking of us - it's certainly making for an interesting year Figgs wrote :- Take care, my UK buds........ hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! Hey Heather, shouldn't that be booze and canned goods? - priorities!! Mart "Heather" wrote in message ... Good grief!! Where is England?? And Wales?? I didn't realize until today just how badly Noel, Mike and Joanie were getting hit. I must write my Scottish friends to see how they are faring. We get kinda used to weather like this, but they don't. The damp is killing me, cold or hot. My swollen hands are not a pretty sight, dammit. Time for more pain creme. Take care, my UK buds........it hopefully will be over soon. Meanwhile, turn up the gas fire and hope you are stocked up on canned goods and booze!! XX Figgs "RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message ... just in case you wanted a pic of the snow.. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...010007_lrg.jpg |
| All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:53 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Win98Banter.com