Straight to Winter, no Autumn!

[Bob Williams]

Today we started with warm, sunny weather, then torrential freezing rain, followed by hailstones, after which snow. Settled into continual freezing rain. Where did Autumn go?

This weather is sweeping all down the East Coast apparently. I have to travel down to dear daughter’s house and feed the Cooking Fat: dd is in Southern Spain somewhere, hope they pack warm clothes in cabin luggage for the return! The Cooking Fat is quite middle aged now and does not venture out of dd’s house in wind or rain, so I will perhaps have a clean up to deal with. She will not use a Litter Tray. I mean the Cooking Fat, not daughter, who was efficiently house trained about 47 years ago.??

Come back Autumn, miss you already!

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Dave Rice]

Daughter back from Bangor for a few days, changed trains at Newport and WhatsApp’d me to complain about the cold. \It is bloody freezing here with this horrible light drizzle.

Already planned as Man in the High Castle binge with the kids tomorrow while the Mrs goes out on a Halloween 10K. Lebkuchen on offer at Tescos, they won’t last the day.

[PlaneMan]

Just been out to the car to refill my pound coin holder, it’s bloody freezing out there. The wind is evil, no rain or anything yet but it looks like it’s coming.

[Richard]

I have barely been out of the house today, a trip to the chemist to collect a prescription for new support socks, only to be greeted with a surprise large bundle of other supplies. With that done I have been in the house watching the temperature display failing to move upward all day. I had my fill of drizzle yesterday, I was a little slow taking the dogs out for a walk, the very light drizzle turned into something far wetter and organised for dog walk 1 and was really organised for dog walk 2, so I only managed about 2 miles in the morning. The afternoon was brighter and almost warm, so with a bit of striding out with them I managed a shade over 3 miles, however nothing today and a doubtful distance tomorrow. The dogs are at home over the weekend and back with us on Sunday night.

[johnbarry]

Tooo right it a cold un. I went to go out this morning, the car had all ice on. I had to abandon the trip and wait till it warmed up a bit (not sure if any anti freeze in) I didn’t want the block to pop.

Cheers
John

[JayCeeDee]

Travelling down the East Coast is correct – last night we had hailstones and heavy rain – put paid to all but the hardiest early firework idiots – I thought this year the firework festivities would be limited to the long weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. It seems not!!

Again this morning has been cold and drizzly, but some real heavy hailstone showers. just nipped down to the diy shed and bought some paint for the en suite, some of the back roads were flooded in parts, well a good 6″ of water.

[Tippon]

It’s dipping into the minus figures here. A friend posted a video of snow in the Brecon Beacons this week, but thankfully that hasn’t travelled the few miles to us yet.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

A crisp and sunny 10° in Wembley at the moment.

[Bob Williams]

Had another mixed morning, sun at first then more freezing rain, which continued as we went to service daughter’s Cucking Fat, after which out to a lovely Carvery at Woodthorpe Garden Centre*, with senior gdaughter and her partner. As I write, torrential freezing rain has given way to even colder drizzle.

Have to feed the Cucking Fat again later. She is a beautiful animal, but I am beginning to resent these trips, daughter’s house is C O L D! Family returns late tonight, they will be freezing if SWMBO has not set the Timer right. (Set it without consulting me: there may be trouble ahead…)

*Very much worth a visit if you are in the area: great food, good menu besides Carvery. Wonderful Christmas exhibition, lots of round-eyed nippers today. Restaurant is huge and very popular.

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When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Drezha]

Spent the night outside under canvas, for the last time this year (well, the last DofE group this year) as the DofE season ends at the end of October. Thankfully, no hyptothermic cadets and three groups managing to pass the Bronze award! (All 15 were checked for hats and gloves before leaving!)

Thankfully no rain, as if it had been cold and wet, the supervisors probably would have had to have pulled the plug. Unlike my Lowland Expedition Leaders assessment in Edale at the start of the month, where it rained on the Friday night as I arrived and in to Saturday morning and I woke up to ice on the inside of my tent on the Sunday…

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[The Duke]

Chis you have never lived untill you have woke up in a steam!

[JayCeeDee]

This year must be close to the 50th anniversary of the last time I holidayed under canvas. The family were off to Ireland with a 4-man ridge tent, stopping off at West Wales to visit sister at Bangor Uni. We set up atop a cliff and settled down for the night.

It hammered down and soon the tent was waterlogged, the ground sheet sitting on a flow of surface water, the sleeping bags soaked. I vowed never again, Mum and Dad agreed so Ireland camping became Ireland B&B!!

[Tippon]

The Duke wrote:

Chis you have never lived untill you have woke up in a steam!

The bike club I’m in used to help out with the Aberdare Park Road Races. In 2009 we camped in the marquee as overnight security. I woke up in the morning and thought my air bed was going down. It turned out that it was floating!

This is where we slept…

 

[Bob Williams]

I recall our first 7 week stay as an Aircraft Workshop in BAOR, over an Alpine lake near Füssen, Bavaria. 5-man tent, self and 2 mates on a Bavarian mountain, Advance Party of 35 guys including a young Lieutenant, we were setting up main Party camp, 1971. Tried to convince Lt. about Alpine Storms, which come out of nowhere fast, often from clear skies, in minutes it’s midnight. Had us build our tent at an angle at the top of the slope, dug a a vee – shape trench around the tent and down the slope. Sure enough, some awful daft o’clock time that night, down it came. We were all dry, Lt. and rest floated away. More great fun came two nights later, when drunk cook mate staggered out for a leak and peed on the electrified cattle fence behind us. Him screaming, self and other mate almost peed in sympathy, excessive lolz! Nothing beats experience and memory, defeating sneering Officers with that, is great.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[dwynnehugh]

I feel so sorry for you soft southerners – ‘ooop north’ where I live we have T shirts and shorts, generally we start to consider a ‘cardi’ in mid January dependent upon the volume of snow when we need to go out! ??????

 

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[PlaneMan]

dwynnehugh wrote:

I feel so sorry for you soft southerners – ‘ooop north’ where I live we have T shirts and shorts, generally we start to consider a ‘cardi’ in mid January dependent upon the volume of snow when we need to go out!

At least this soft southerner can get 4G on his phone…..   ?

[The Duke]

Im up north and over the last two days felt a sharp drop in temrture, and my back has noticed the damp in the air. Been killing me the last 3 days. It will normalise in about a week, as long as the weather doesn’t flip flop.

 

We got the heating fixed about a month ago, some may recall, we only had it on once and the weather turned warm again. The last 3 days bar yesterday, has been on a good 12h a day. We didn’t put it on yesterday, but last night was a little chilly about 4am. Today its OK, trh therninitor on the hours shows 15. So it’s on the verge of clicking the heating on.

No one has mentioned it being cold in the house though. Bloody freezing outside, 11 degrees atm. It was 6 degrees outside at 4am.

One of the worst half terms, the October one, as coming out the summer, we really feel the change in weather, so no one really wants to go out, or do anything. So alot of TV watching and minor jobs around the house, theat was put off all summer.

[PlaneMan]

My car had a very heavy frost on it this morning, it’s in the shade from about 3pm to 9am at this time of year. The front of the house can be freezing cold and the back baking hot.

[Drezha]

PlaneMan wrote:

My car had a very heavy frost on it this morning, it’s in the shade from about 3pm to 9am at this time of year. The front of the house can be freezing cold and the back baking hot.

I’m looking at getting a cover for the car this year to reduce/stop the ice/frost, as I found last year the clearing the ice would knock about 15 miles off the 30 mile range of my battery in the car! (and driving it to work on the electric is cheaper than petrol for when I actually have to drive to work).

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[PlaneMan]

Last time I had a car (before my recent Swift’s) I lived in a shared house, that had a car port which was just big enough to get my car, my mates and his Vespa in when parked carefully. That made a hell of a difference.

My problem would be getting a cover on and off, 2 years ago it would have been no problem, now with my arthritis giving me more and more issues it would kill me.

I’ll just pour boiling water over the windscreen. ?

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