Was on youtube earlier today, looking at how to upload pictures from a Samsung phone to a MacBook and as usual I ended up clicking on another video and then another which eventually lead Me to this video.Made Me smile anyway.
Disappointed that the golf course is closed today. Was rather looking to breaking out that pack of red balls that someone bought me for a joke! On the other hand - Happy St David's Day - Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
That’s utterly brilliant! I’ve sent it to my daughter who’s a librarian in a private school. I think she might use it to show how English should be used proper like. Like wot it used to be
Not a single snowflake today and hardly out of single figures yesterday. The Island is out of the loop. Cold though.
The Uni where I work is closing at 13:00 - we got upgraded to Red alert earlier this morning so I'll be off home again soon. I started at half 7 today so it means I need to take a lunchbreak...I think I may go to lunch at 12:00
Robert Falcon Scott came from Holcombe, so be careful out there Chilcs as Somerset residents have a history of carelessness in cold weather. The nursery rhyme "Ring o roses" is about a tragedy where a bunch of kids fell through the ice on a frozen pond in Holcombe ( the rhyme is nothing to do with the black death, although many people still think it is) https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/668822 This is also debated though, as a similar rhyme is said to have existed previously and was just applied to the dead kids after the event. Local history! So often a bunch of lies and myths but fascinating all the same.
One of the few advantages of having Elton refinery polluting the atmosphere around here is that snow finds it difficult to penetrate. That can be the only explanation for it's absence in Chester while North Wales is blanketed.
Thanks RJ, I have heard that story! St. Andrews church is the tiny old church out in the woods which is well worth a visit. I have no plans for ice-walking today, mainly because I hurt my shoulder slipping down an icy bank while out with my walking mates on Tuesday!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/artic...inkname=articles_animals_in_snow_contentcard2 Some animal pics and videos to lighten the mood.
And to darken the mood. Worshippers in a church in Pennsylvania come to a wedding with AK47s and even crowns of bullets. In the land of the weird even these nut jobs are outliers. https://news.sky.com/story/worshipp...-weapons-at-a-church-in-pennsylvania-11271559
The 2 pints of Brotherhood IPA I had at the Hope & Anchor at Midford at lunchtime probably contributed to the slip!
Massive delays on the A34. A couple of serious accidents with one fatality. Deliveries to work were sent on massive detours, of 50 miles plus. Management, as usual, showed a total lack of forward planning, leaving everyone on our regular 05.00-13.00 shifts, so just as several late deliveries were arriving and tipping, everyone was leaving to go home. I would have stayed late, had a manager asked me, but they didn’t, and I no longer volunteer. Worst managed company I have ever worked for, truth be told. Young managers with no people skills and lacking the ability to see the bigger picture, when making ridiculous short term decisions. Roll on retirement. 3 years still to go
Sadly, my experience, St B, is that young managers can’t handle it and the more experienced managers either aren’t asked or are given no time to train them. I tried, off my own bat, to train my successor, but was told by my boss (also a young upstart) that she (my successor) had to “learn on the job” - bloody ridiculous. Glad I’m out of it - as you will be in 3 years!
I was expecting to get home at 22.q5 tonight but university is cancelled and the office has just closed early so now I'm going to be home around 4 with a full days pay! I love snow.
I was home by 13:00 from Bath Uni. I love snow too...until I have to try to drive to Stanstead airport Saturday morning.
My unscientific measure of the amount of snow over the last 2 hours in Poole please log in to view this image
