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[Guest]

I've got another 12 weeks, but Owen tried to arrive 11 weeks early, so I'm feeling slightly twitchy.... The hospital is over 50 miles away - over a fairly exposed hilly, country road as well.

 

I think it may already be snowing over the Cheviots - the tallest had a very small snow-cap this morning, and they've ccompletely disappeared from view now.

[Guest]

Have you got a sledge Shona??

 

 

My parents got married in January, back in the 60's and my mother woke up on the big day, to the news that Edinburgh had been brought to a complete standstill because of snow. Her car was stuck on the other side of Edinburgh, so my dad sent his bestman over to pick her and her dad up with a sledge, and he and the ushers pulled them to the church, then onto the reception after the ceremony.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

My parents got married in January, back in the 60's and my mother woke up on the big day, to the news that Edinburgh had been brought to a complete standstill because of snow. Her car was stuck on the other side of Edinburgh, so my dad sent his bestman over to pick her and her dad up with a sledge, and he and the ushers pulled them to the church, then onto the reception after the ceremony.

 

I bet their wedding photos are amazing . And I bet the guests remembered that wedding over all the others .

[Guest]

My favourite of their wedding photos is one where my mum is standing in the snow with her dad, and her 4 inch heels are stuck in a snowdrift, and her ridiculous 60's pointy toes are sticking up at right angles to the ground!

[Louise]

Wet and miserable in edinburgh at the mo no idea what it is doing at home though as they are in different risk areas i will have a look at the met office later

 

Unless we get it as bad as 2001 Shona you will be fine for the hospital (BGH??) They really do look after the roads in the border region

[Egluntyne]

I've got another 12 weeks, but Owen tried to arrive 11 weeks early, so I'm feeling slightly twitchy.... The hospital is over 50 miles away - over a fairly exposed hilly, country road as well.

 

I think it may already be snowing over the Cheviots - the tallest had a very small snow-cap this morning, and they've ccompletely disappeared from view now.

 

Make sure you have rubber gloves, string and plenty of clean towels and hot water.

 

I didn't realise you had a son called Owen.

 

Forget Euan as a name then.......it's the same thing more or less.

 

[The Dogmother]

We have dismal grey skies and drizzle this morning, but the skies have cleared and a bitter NE wind sprung up - bodes well for snow.

 

I checked my weather station at lunchtime and the barometric pressure had dropped by 10 whatevers

[Egluntyne]

I've given the hens a good fettling to be on the safe side.

[Christian]

Thats good of you Egluntine!

 

What's a fettling?

 

 

[Egluntyne]

Manchester word for thorough good clean out.

 

In Sheffield it is referred to as "bottoming"

 

I think I'll stick with fettling.

[The Dogmother]

We say fettling too Egluntine. Phil uses it too when he's going to have a shave.

 

It's an industrial phrase used for the process that they use to remove the rough edges from a mould casted item. i.e. the eglus and glugs/grubs will all have been fettled when they came out of the moulds.

[feemcg]

Egluntine uses that word quite a lot, it's a great word (I had to go and look it up though ).

[Christian]

Thank you!

 

yes fettling is more polite i think!

 

Thought I had heard that word on a Victoria Wood sketch sometime ago!

 

Geography makes sense!

[feemcg]

yes, not sure how the hens would feel about being 'bottomed'

[Egluntyne]

It's an industrial phrase used for the process that they use to remove the rough edges from a mould casted item. i.e. the eglus and glugs/grubs will all have been fettled when they came out of the moulds.

 

You learn something new every day!

 

Egluntine uses that word quite a lot, it's a great word.

 

Do I?

 

Can't hide my northern roots. Not that I'd want to!.

[The Dogmother]

I think they also use it to describe some sort of sand protection in the furnace, but Phil will put me right on that one... he's a pub quizz maestro and knows the answers to stuff like this.

[Egluntyne]

Brrrrrrrr......I've just been out to bring my bin up the path.

 

My word it is cold. It is the sort of cold that grabs you by the throat and takes your breath away.

 

*shivers*

[chelsea]

Brrrrrrrr......I've just been out to bring my bin up the path.

 

My word it is cold. It is the sort of cold that grabs you by the throat and takes your breath away.

 

*shivers*

 

 

luvverrrly jubblley....I love it cold!!

[Guest]

It's arctic here now, and my boys are out playing football in short sleeved t-shirts...

[Jules.]

I have rosy cheeks -just put the girls to bed & brushed up all the soil they have kicked over the garden path.....

Phew!

I hope it snows tomorrow

[The Dogmother]

It even fells colder in the office

[Christian]

Been out and tidied the strawberry bed that I should have done in October.

 

Fingers, toes, cheeks and face are solid blocks of ice.

 

 

I can smell snow!!

[Lesley]

It smells of snow here as well now...........please just wait until we're back from Luton

[chelsea]

very excited, just had our local weather forecast and they advise up to 5cm here in Devon & Somerset tomorrow

 

downside - lots of flight delays at work i would imagine because they give it worse for the southeast.

 

I LOVE snow though, shame it couldnt come at Christmas!

Edited January 2, 2008 by Guest

[Ain't Nobody Here]

The BBC weather forecast says "rain" for Thursday night, the Met Office says "heavy snow".