Lesley Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 It is becoming milder here as well......... ..... we've been able to keep all the prepared poultry in the Brewery.... noe we'll have to make room in the fridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Lovely and mild yesterday, no defrosting needed, but today it is icy. The fields are covered in frost, but the ping pong balls in the glugs (thanks Kate ) have stopped the water freezing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Very Frosty here. The main roads are ok but the side roads are bad. I've just come back from picking up the turkey, and could hardly get back up the hill. I went in my daughters little car. She's driving to Manchester tonight to see Take That. I hope it warms up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 beautiful white crisp morning here in Devon .....nearly went up on my bum going out to let the chooks out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Super frosty here and still below freezing (10.30 am). The chooks have had porrige, tomato and sweetcorn and are scuffling around int he leaves at the bottom of the garden. I have lit the rayburn in the kitchen and it is toasty and also the fire in the living room - The dog is fast asleep ont he sofa and all is well with the world - off out to the village shop for wild bird food in a mo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 It was -4 here at 9am. I nearly sat on my bottom when I crossed the road to deliver some Christmas cards, I thought it was wet, it was solid ice Just had a look at the thermometer in the back yard, and it is still below freezing, glad I cleaned the Eglu out yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 thick frost overnight but now the sun's coming out and all the garden fences are steaming away, I love that, they look like they're on fire! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 It was positively balmy here today, so we all took ourselves off for a walk along the beach. The children chased the waves and got soaked, something they would never have considered over the last few days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basset Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 The fog lingered all day today. I was outside giving the Eglu it's Christmas clean and spruce up and I could hear continuous fog-horns coming from the vessels on the River Thames. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 milder, overcast here in Devon today. Why oh why, we have days and days of lovely cold frosty christmasey weather and today (christmas eve) and tomorrow they forecast warm and rain.... (im grumpy now) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Pouring, windy and +8 when I came back from Tesco at 3am! It was me that started this thread - what a contrast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 when I came back from Tesco at 3am! please tell me you were the only one shopping at that hour?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Just about Chelsea - started off in Asda at midnight and it was appalling, couldn't get half the things I wanted, aisles shut and you had to shout to staff to get you stuff , then remembered there was a brand new 24 hr Tesco and went there, and got everything that I'd missed (I was desperate for those little brie and cranberry filo parcels, I love them, could probably make them easily enough - if I was that way inclined ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 The Hubby did a 3am shop a couple of years ago in our local 24hour Tesco,& said the shelfs were almost empty,especially of thimgs like bread. At one point a staff member was dragging a cage of bread out to put on the shop floor,& her was practically mugged & it was almost stripped clean before he even got there Honestly,you would think there was going to be a national food shortage or something,not just 2 days with the shops shut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I found that on Saturday with our Tesco so much had sold out You think people are feeding an army not a family with what is piled in their trolleys I don't have to go near any shops today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 The Hubby did a 3am shop a couple of years ago in our local 24hour Tesco,& said the shelfs were almost empty,especially of thimgs like bread.At one point a staff member was dragging a cage of bread out to put on the shop floor,& her was practically mugged & it was almost stripped clean before he even got there Honestly,you would think there was going to be a national food shortage or something,not just 2 days with the shops shut It is ridiculous isn't it, especially as most of it will be binned. How did our parents manage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 We went supermarket shopping on Saturday - took one look at the car park and expected the worst It is fun looking at what everyone else is buying though- usually a trolley mountain of booze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 It was a balmy +5 degrees this morning and a warmish breeze too. The weather has been so changeable the last few days too. Wet and windy forecast for Tuesday though. No shopping left to do here, just need to finish work at lunchtime, then it's off home to get ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Cinnamon wrote: [Honestly,you would think there was going to be a national food shortage or something,not just 2 days with the shops shut [/color] Here in London there are loads of little asian corner shops that stay open all over the christmas period, very handy if you run out of milk or booze I too cannot understand the seige mentality that comes over folk at this time of year. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Our asian (Muslim) newsagent is having tomorrow off as he has family coming down from South Yorkshire for over Christmas Costcutter (not cheap despite the name) will be open on Christmas Day though, both the one down the road from me and the one just over a mile away. There really is no need for all this rush buying and grabbing of food, really annoying to think, like Egluntine says, most of it will end up dumped Back on thread, positively sub tropical temperatures here today, it's 5 degrees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 It's warm here too Claire - been 6 degrees today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 It's been so mild here since the 24th - apart from one day with a bitter wind - that the birds seem to think it is Spring!!! I can't go anywhere without a hand held fan, the windows are open and all the birds are singing! ...... but at least all the hosepipes are now deforsted, albeit with broken fittings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 It is really mild here too, but just checked the weather forecast and its down to -5 on Friday night! (plus snow showers expected on Thursday - Yippeeeeee) The BBC weather website is never that accurate though Foggy today though, I can't see the end of the garden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I do hope it snows too warm here though, 6.7 at the moment. We went for a walk over Bickerton hills on Saturday, and it was very windy but really warm karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 It was very frosty here last night but it had gone by this morning. Still cold and it is raining. We are running out of heating oil It was ordered last week. We have an electric fire in the living room but no other way to heat the rest of the house or the water. The oil won't be delivered now until Thursday at the earliest. Our oil supply will not that long We will be starting 2008 very cold and dirty Hope we are not forecast snow or low temperatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
