Weather winter 2010/2011

[mark smyth]

Mark, that bird reminds production of Oiva Toikka.

Yes it is

[David Nicholson]

Minus 19 degrees at Pershore (Alpine Garden Society Headquarters) overnight!!!   

I have this vision (and not a pretty one!) of The Bookeroo, clad in his PJ's, staggering around Pershore in the dark thermometer in hand. I must lay off the hard stuff

[Martinr]

Minus 19 degrees at Pershore (Alpine Garden Society Headquarters) overnight!!!   

I have this vision (and not a pretty one!) of The Bookeroo, clad in his PJ's, staggering around Pershore in the dark thermometer in hand. I must lay off the hard stuff

David, I'm sure help is available. Suggest you contact a specialist soon. Visions of Cliff in PJ's suggests a serious, and decidedly scary, condition.

[David Nicholson]

 

[ashley]

Mark, that bird reminds production of Oiva Toikka.

Yes it is

It's a beauty Mark, and you're very brave to keep it in the garden

[ranunculus]

My solicitors; 'Smarmgrin, Doggitt and Clutch' have been instructed to take action against anyone who suggests (in words or images) that the R't Hon'. Clifford Marmaduke Alfonso J. Booker III of Beholden Abbey and Takeaway, Whitworth, Bucks would EVER wear pyjamas!!!
It's nightshirts or nothing ... !!!

[Panu]

Quite expensive garden decorative, that Curlew. 

[Martinr]

Oh dear, after that vision I need a very stiff drink, or perhaps one of those drugs that are supposed to prevent hallucinations

[mark smyth]

Ashley I carefully put the bird out and carefully brought it in again. I did get a fright earlier this year when a friends child lifted it by the tail.

[mark smyth]

Yes Panu. I only have two of his birds. The curlew and bluebird. A friend, richer than me, has about 10.

[David Nicholson]

My solicitors; 'Smarmgrin, Doggitt and Clutch' have been instructed to take action against anyone who suggests (in words or images) that the R't Hon'. Clifford Marmaduke Alfonso J. Booker III of Beholden Abbey and Takeaway, Whitworth, Bucks would EVER wear pyjamas!!!
It's nightshirts or nothing ... !!!

Must have been drafty round the nethers

[ranunculus]

My solicitors; 'Smarmgrin, Doggitt and Clutch' have been instructed to take action against anyone who suggests (in words or images) that the R't Hon'. Clifford Marmaduke Alfonso J. Booker III of Beholden Abbey and Takeaway, Whitworth, Bucks would EVER wear pyjamas!!!
It's nightshirts or nothing ... !!!

Must have been drafty round the nethers

Nether the less!!!   

[Anthony Darby]

-9^oC when I left for work this morning. We had a couple of inches of snow yesterday. It's the undulating hard packed ice on some of the roads, car parks and pavements, that is a smooth as glass, that is treacherous! Tyso's (outdoor shop) sell metal studded plastic contraptions that you can stretch over your shoes to grip on this type of surface.

[mark smyth]

walking to the shop just now my hands and face were tingling with the cold. It's -10c / 14F just now.

In the west of N Ireland it was -11c / 12F all day yesterday making it the coldest December day in N Ireland since record keeping began

[arillady]

And I sure hope that my daughter's flight out of Heathrow takes off on the 20th and arrives on Wed. She arrived at the airport the other day to be told that all flights were cancelled. Otherwise she may not make it home for Christmas with the backlog of passengers. This may/will be the first year that all the children are together for Christmas with their respective families for about 10 years. I am certainly keeping my fingers crossed.