noggin

Nickname which I was given by my colleagues in my first job. It was initially Noggin the Nog, but got shortened. We all had nicknames! b.

Welcome to the West! It is quite rainy over here, but it has been particularly rainy this Winter! As for snow, well, it does happen, sometimes, not very often, but sometimes!

Just a big fat zero forecast for here. Ah, well, at least we can have a good old moan!

I agree. So disappointing,

I would rather be in the blank middle bit, than the poxy icy bit.....

I'll have that one, please! TVM ❄

I didn't mean to be quoting AWD's post again, but can't delete it from this post...sorry AWD! When I woke up on the sofa at about 4am, the MetO forecast for WINTERBOURNE, which includes COALPIT HEATH , showed snow symbols all day for Sunday with a 50% chance of snow, but now it doesn't...just overcast. It is horribly border line and I know that it WILL chop and change, but it frazzles my nerves!

Thought as much........

I am getting quite anxious about this snow. What are our chances (%) for tomorrow and for the midweek battleground (%)? I was confident up until I read the mod thread just now, but now I feel a bit deflated. Might just be my natural pessimism........

I shall get enough so that I can survive for at least a week as I am too old to be trudging nearly a mile to the nearest shop and then nearly another mile back again, in a possible blizzard❄❄! Have also lost confidence in driving in such conditions, so that is out too! So, a week's worth of basic stuff for me!

They are fabulous! I have a nice buxus hedge, but struggle with the ones in pots. They always have cream/bronze tips and I think that maybe the pots are too large and that the compost is, therefore, too wet. Perhaps I will downsize their pots in the Spring! I am fine, thank you, hope that you are too! I haven't been on for a while as I couldn't remember my password, but have written it down now! My grandson is coming up to 3, March 2nd, I'll never forget the horror getting my daughter to hospital in all that snow and of us all being stranded in various parts of Somerset! Nor do I forget your very kind offer of help! Today's snow didn't really come to much here, didn't even settle! Have a horrible feeling that next week will be another damp squib, but it will do what it will do! Best wishes to you and your family!

Dawn, are those buxus/boxes in the pots? They look lovely and green (although getting whiter!)

Looking at the sky, it seems that we may be in for a good old dumping! ❄

Getting heavier here. ❄

If I look really hard, there are a few bits of dry looking stuff coming down here! What a nice surprise! Anything is better than nothing! ❄

Sorry, don't know what that 'hidden' stuff was all about! It is snowing heavily here!

Hope this works...a picture!

Snowing in Coalpit Heath!

Snowing here!

I'm going to have mine outside, as well! Oh, the joys of retirement after 46 years of work!

Freezing fog has cleared and now the sky is blue and the sun is shining. There was even a red admiral butterfly in my garden! He fluttered away before I could take his picture! I hope he finds somewhere warm and safe for tonight. There was also a fly, but I don't care if he finds somewhere warm and safe or not!

So windy again. Hate the wind...what purpose does it serve other than to blow a few cobwebs away? Rain is fine, a torrential downpour is exciting, but wind is just damaging and being out in it feels like a physical assault. Plus, it mucks up my already horrible hair!

2.20am and the wind has woken me up too! Shall be checking roof and fences as soon as it gets light.

Stayed dry all day so was able to get my gardening done. Feeling worn out and quite sleepy after a day in the fresh air. Didn't come in until 5.30......it's staying light for much longer now, which is great for gardening. Sometimes in the Summer I don't come in until after 10!