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Tag Archive: Weather

13 Jun

>Wet feet – #1358

>   Been a bit damp around there for the last few days and these animals being paraded through the streets 2 by 2 have me a bit worried. And…
13 June, 2011 at 11:00 5 Comments
10 Apr

>Sunny afternoon – #1304

> …in the Römerwall park. The Kinks have something definitive on that, too. The tax man’s taken all my doughAnd left me in my stately homeLazing on a sunny afternoon…
10 April, 2011 at 11:00 6 Comments
22 Feb

>Hand-coloured and lenticularly trussed – #1257

>     Sounds like a lyric from “Highway 61 Revisited”. (Who said speed kills…?) Here be that bridge again with a severe paucity of cumulo-thingies, but a surfeit (that’s…
22 February, 2011 at 12:00 6 Comments
04 Dec

>Flying the flag -#1177

> Two (benches) are company, three (flags) are a crowd. No takers for seating opportunies at the Town Hall yesterday at a crisp -4ºC
4 December, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
01 Dec

>Monthly Theme Day – Time – #1174

> About thyme it stopped snowing, if you ask me….. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
1 December, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
26 Nov

>Jack Frost nipping on your nose – #1169

> Can’t believe that you can actually SEE a SNOWFLAKE here, perched on a dessicated hortensis. It’s a first for me after mumble mumble years, anyway. (Although I was climatically…
26 November, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
12 Oct

>"Prediction is very difficult…. – #1124

> Not even a cumulo-cimbus-mirrus to deface a perfectly blue sky ….especially if it’s about the future.”  Niels Bohr Meanwhile. Somewhere in the village, it’s winter with sleet and decidedly…
12 October, 2010 at 11:00 6 Comments
26 Sep

>Talk about biblical – #1108

> I seriously expected the four riders of the Apocalypse to emerge from all that cumulo-whatever. At least, I THINK that’s what’s meant to happen on Judgement Day. I’m sure…
26 September, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
13 Sep

>Stumped – #1095

> Despite having become a recognised expert on things nephological, I have no explanation for this phenomenon. And this is only PART of it. Imagine this as the left hand…
13 September, 2010 at 17:00 4 Comments
27 Aug

>Lenticularly trussed – #1078

> This is how the iPhone spat it out. Honest. Now, I have it on very good authority that these are some form of cumulus (cumuli?). Probably Cumulus humilis, but…
27 August, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
14 Jul

>Do people actually LIVE here? – #1034

> My mate, Bill Leslie, visited us years ago and commented on the fact that villages died out at lunchtime. “Do people actually LIVE here, John?” he’d ask “Where are…
14 July, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
11 Jul

>Heatwave – #1031

>    Cue for a song: Joan Osborne with the eponymous (look it up – that’s what dictionaries is for) song from the terminally excellent “Standing in the shadows of…
11 July, 2010 at 11:00 6 Comments
02 Jun

>A gardener’s diary – #993

> Odile Landragin‘s documentation of the weather in May 19 Rain Rain20 Cool Cool21 Same A small excerpt of a meteorologically challenging month. Killed my basil plants, that’s for sure….
2 June, 2010 at 11:00 1 Comment
27 May

>And 14ºC – #987

> And this is Spring? Bloody weather…. Schillerstrasse
27 May, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
02 Feb

>Different day (or month)…. – #872

> …same….er…snow.
2 February, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
01 Feb

>Monthly Theme Day – Wood – #871

> If only it wood stop snowing. Conditionally speaking, that is… Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
1 February, 2010 at 12:00 6 Comments
31 Jan

>Making tracks – #870

> Tracks of the  European Conspicio vermes. Certainly up before me this morning
31 January, 2010 at 12:00 Leave a comment
20 Jan

>Snowcapped – #859

>   Some readers will doubtless categorise this image of an unfortunate hydrangea blossom as romantic….. Snow Gems (English Sonnet)     Snow falls to earth as weightless feather down,slow…
20 January, 2010 at 12:11 3 Comments
19 Jan

>Cold hearted – #858

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19 January, 2010 at 12:12 4 Comments
18 Jan

>The Big (de)-Freeze – #857

> Big dump of sloppy snow and freezing rain on Saturday night and now the big Melt has set in. Except that none of the liquid stuff was going down…
18 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
16 Jan

>Waiting for Easter – #855

>   Unless, of course, a mythical bird of prey turned up and deposited them on the bench in front of the kitchen window. They appear to have been there…
16 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
14 Jan

>Tools of the trade – #853

> Need I say more…?
14 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
10 Jan

>"Daisy, Daisy…. – #849

> …give me your answer do” Daisy is a low pressure pattern that was going to bring chaos, pestilence and plagues of locusts down on us. If you believed the…
10 January, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
07 Jan

>Chilly – #846

> Looking over the fields in Ober-Olm to the vineyards that disappear down the hill towards the village. -10ºC last night, more snow at the weekend. Lots of it.
7 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
03 Jan

>Winter wonderland -#842

>   More to come, too Nothing like at Kate’s though
3 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
14 Jan

>Cheating! – #673

> Hitching your kids up behind the van and towing them through the countryside is the moral equivalent of taking your dog for a walk by letting it run alongside…
14 January, 2009 at 14:53 1 Comment
12 Jan

>The not very straight and narrow (and *%$£@ cold) -#671

> Quite a brisk 267º out in the fields today. Kelvin, that is. -6º Celcius. 22º Fahrenheit. And the tracks in the snow got me thinking (which doesn’t happen very…
12 January, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
02 Jan

>Ice age – #661

> Recipe:Freezing temperatures for a couple of daysLight RainFreeze some more Result:General moaning Geriatric reminiscences “But this is NOTHING compared to 1847….” Cancelled dinner parties (Actually Mr and Mrs Helen…
2 January, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment