...for those poor souls mentioned on BBC Breakfast news this morning. Cardiff, god bless'em, had a hard frost last night. Truro had some snow, but the reporter had to drive around to find it. While she was on, cars were whizzing past at 40. I wonder why, when according to their own report, Scotland and Northumberland were hardest hit, they went to reporters in the South West?
Just watch, when the home counties get some it'll suddenly become the next ice age...
Back home, this morning another 5" had dropped on the coast, and Alnwick is now buried. We braved the elements and nutters in 4x4's, to get some bird seed in the town. We visited my brother who lives not far from Sainsbury's, where the quantity of snow had to be seen to be believed. His garden was an easy 15" thick. Thats inches, not centimetres. Cars were abandoned in drifts from Alnwick Garden right through the town.
And we are forecast another good fall tonight. Lets hope they're wrong.
When I went out with Bunty this morning, a hard weather movement was beginning.
In half an hour 248 Skylarks flew south in parties up to 40 strong, accompanied by a few Meadow Pipits and Linnets. 20 or 30 Woodpigeons appeared to arrive from the sea, and a single Redshank flew off high west....
I'll have more time tomorrow moring to have a better look around.
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You should know by now Stewart that if it doesn't happen in the south, particularly around London, then it doesn't happen at all. You northerners can put up with the cold (cue pictures of topless NUFC supporters in mid-winter) while us southern softies cannot digest our macrobiotic diets unless it's sunny and warm.
A couple of years back I was chatting with a bloke on North Uist. He said the same as you. "When you get a sparow's fart of a breeze in London it's all over the telly. For most of the winter we can't even step outdoors without being blown out to sea! You never see THAT on the news!"
Could do with some of that disruption Stewart - oh the thought of our lane closed due to snow, no more twats speeding up and down :-)
2mm of snow should see to it, with a 4mm drift on the bend :-)
There were skylarks and meadow pipits moving at Newton today too Stewart.
Watching skylarks scrabbling about in the deep snow today was like a replay of last winter. The good news is that we have some un-harvested cereal crops here now, today they were heaving with skylarks and buntings, no pine bunt tho !
I think yours are getting drilled next spring ? Will be interesting to see what they pull in.
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