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Bizarre again here like Saturday. Minus 1°C but raining, paths are like glass and there are icicles hanging off the car, garden seats, pergola etc. Not at all pleasant.

Hi Geoff,

We have the same here, but we have snow forecast again but yet to get any.

Regards

Arnie

That looks rather slippery there, Geoff.....

Taken advantage of the frozen ground, and spread 25kg of lime on the allotment, that's another job out of the way.

I think we might be in for an early Spring this year.

Clive. wrote:

oldherbaceous wrote:No lawn mowing today then, Clive.

I've got the Atco battery mower on charge all ready though...


So I can use it, if necessary, to help start old Vauxhaull tomorrow...and get it up the garage for Test....number plate looks a fail without delving any deeper.....

Clive.

At work young Sam was out mowing today in the lying Snow. ...to be fair it was the Dori heavy duty 29" brushcutter rotary mower doing an annual trim down of an area of bramble and rough grass just over the boundary up to the Church footpath..the need is to keep a wilderness from climbing over the hedge and invading the garden real.

..and an update on old Vauxhaul...MOT test passed. ...the number plate was only advisory...couple of other adivisories with ref degrading mounting rubbers but that showed no undue movement.

Keeping on topic it was Snowing as I drove home from the garage.

Clive.

Evening Clive, was it a bit nippy up your neck of the woods today, i think we are catching some of the coldest weather around at the moment.

Didn't feel that cold at first today..it was...but it was still dry cold. Once it started to go down towards the snow of this evening it went really raw.

I re potted a few Fuchsias this morning they had been stored dry so last years compost fell away and they should move forward into the new they are now in.

We were teak oiling a few more garden benches this afternoon in a non too warm garage.
.....and tomorrows gardening day I'm told involves some furniture needing moving up and down stairs...I'm not so keen about all the lifting but best to go do it when it is all snowy so that we can get back to the Rose beds when this early Spring arrives....


Clive.

Glad you think there's going to be an early Spring too, Clive.

Just looked out the front door...great big Snow flakes coming down now...1/2"+ on the path once more....

Clive.

I don't think I have ever experienced black ice as we have had today - a walk into the village took twice as long as usual and was only accomplished by hanging onto anything solid at hand. I risked the traffic and walked back virtually in the middle of the road where it had been gritted. Our dry stone walls, lime stone chipping paths and all flags are still slippery tonight in spite of having been rained on all afternoon. And now it's starting to freeze again.

Dear OH - Why ruin a perfectly good wine by putting junk in it??

xx Westi

and heating it and losing the important part ..... Only thing needed with wine is a nice chunck of cheese and crackers

Started snowing again here.

BTW Alan has been absent since Tuesday, hope he is ok.

Snowing here right now but only right on the coast! Bedlam then tomorrow on the way to work.

Westi

We have snow this morning......will have to leave for work a little earlier