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jethro

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jethro last won the day on February 1 2019

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  1. Evening all, what a beautiful day it's been, positively spring like. The garden is coming to life, usually these snowdrops reach this stage of flowering on Valentines day so they're a couple of weeks early. The Aconites however are late by about the same time, confused garden.... Wonderful sunset here too, can't take credit for the pic (came from a local FB page), thousands of starlings coming into roost on the reedbeds at Shapwick Heath down on the Somerset levels.
  2. Feb 2009 dumped about a foot of snow here. For me personally, it was far better than the beast in 2010, then we were blinking cold but barely any snow at all.
  3. It's snowing! Proof positive it's not impossible to get snow living barely above sea level, in the Cheddar Valley
  4. Drizzling here, very lightly. Stepped out for a fag, out there for 5 mins and I did see 3 snowflakes but the rest is plain old rain. No doubt it's snow on top of the Mendips.
  5. Just checked Met Office forecast, it has this area down as 60% chance of heavy snow this evening. Can't say I'm convinced but happy to be proved wrong.
  6. This thread was at the top of my feed and it piqued my curiosity.... Checked the temp in my house and it's currently 12c, thought it was feeling a tad nippy. Time to light the fires. You lot live in a different world, 24c in a bedroom???? I'd never sleep. I guess I'm just used to living in my barny old 15thc farmhouse, we've got central heating, loft stuffed with insulation and new windows with higher efficiency than current regs but the inglenooks let it down. Fantastic when they're lit, hopeless when not, they suck every ounce of heat out and up the chimney, currently waiting on register plates to solve the problem.
  7. Morning, I can't take credit for this pic, it was taken by a lady called Jilly Jay and posted on a local page. This taken yesterday down on the levels on the closed A361 between Burrowbridge and East Lyng, it looks stunning.
  8. Evening all, it seems it's going to get rather chilly. Personally, I'm expecting nothing more than frost down here but on the off chance it does actually get properly cold, may I recommend a visit to Somerset. I doubt they'll be any snow on offer but what we will have is perfect conditions for skating. Any point in Somerset, from the eastern side of the Mendips to the Severn will do, the levels are mostly under water, none of it deep enough to cause a tragedy should the ice crack.
  9. What a bloody awful day it's been. Floods everywhere, the village just outside Bristol where I work is literally a river, the farm bunds have over flowed with the land absolutely saturated . I've been out in it all day, soaked to the skin by the end of day, waterproofs couldn't cope with the biblical downpour. The journey home was erm, interesting, twice I got halfway through deep flooding and thought 'oooo, shouldn't have done that', so close to getting wet feet. Really must remember I'm driving a car now, not my old Landy. Hope all this water has drained away before the expected frost tomorrow night, it'll be a nightmare if it freezes.
  10. It looks lovely here down in the valley, up on the hills will be stunning. The Mendips often suffer from very low cloud which can be grim, dank murk when it's mild but it's a real bonus when there's frost about, thick, thick rime on everything. -4c here
  11. It's a winter wonderland around here even without a flake of snow. Top of the Mendips are white, have been all day, stunning sunset too tonight. -2c at 4pm, it's going to be a cold one tonight.
  12. Who needs snow when you've got frost like this. Drive to and from work today was a winter wonderland on top of the Mendips, stunning sunset too. Couldn't help but stop and capture it but got bleeding frozen in the process, -2c and breezy up there, going to be a cold one tonight.
  13. It's Shepton, doesn't matter how high it is it always gets snow when there's any around. Also gets absolutely grid locked, lorries getting stuck on the hills bring everything to a halt. One night it took hubby over two hours to do the short journey to Holcombe, nightmare. He soon learnt all those little lanes to get round instead.
  14. Fair to middling my dear, how's you? Life all good I hope. I'm still bogged down in major house renovations but at least the downstairs is now down, made it as far as the landing so only bedrooms & bathrooms to go. Then the outside fun starts....I did make a start on turning the old farmyard into a garden but got side tracked down an archaeology road. Long story short, the small part I've dug has turned up part of a roman brooch and over 1000 pieces of pottery dated 9th-14th century, plus Iron Age bits. Current archaeological theory is the house has Saxon foundations, thoughts are the current house dates early 15thc. Got to do a proper time team dig before the garden makeover can go ahead.
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