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[Old Speckled Hen]

Well not much

 

 

Looking over Windermere at snow on the tops of Crinkles and Bowfell

 

And

 

 

Ben Rinnes from Blackrocksrock

[patsylabrador]

Lovely pics. The sky looks ominous. First snow is always exciting.

[Egluntyne]

First snow is always exciting.

 

It is, isn't it.

 

Might be worth us all ordering grit now before they sell out.

[Couperwife]

what fantastic photos

 

I love Windermere and the lakes

 

cathy

x

[Blackrocksrock]

See you have some too OSH - they are skiing on cairngorm mountain too so an early start this year - we always get some and it comes and goes for a while - it makes a nice picture but makes us go brrrr............. Looking up from the laptop the top of ben rinnes is still white under a layer of cloud - looks like there has been some more - the temp was way down at under 2 degrees last night.

[Plum]

Fabulous views.

 

Egluntyne behave it's going to be a mild winter.

[hazard]

its forecasting now in wales this week its just a taste of whats to come this winter

[Old Speckled Hen]

Yes, all the long range weather pundits are forecasting another cold one. I'm happy with that but hey, let's have a scorcher of a summer to follow

[The Dogmother]

Lovely photo

 

Yup, the wind has swung round here to the north west, so we can smell roasting coffee again and it's biting cold. Left the National this afternoon is icy drizzle, but it's dry here so far. I heard on R4 this morning that snow is forecast down the east coast for the end of the week.

[Purplemaniacs]

Egluntyne behave it's going to be a mild winter.

I'm with Plum on this one, lets hope it is going to be a mild winter, with OH away most of the week I dread the thought of snow and being on my own

 

Lovely pictures, snow is beautiful but not when you need to get to places

 

Chrissie

[Space Chick]

Driving through mid wales tonight on my way home from the National, the temperature dipped to -3.5c at one point

 

They reckon we'll have snow in Wales by the middle of the week

[Alis girls]

My 9 yr old is studying met office website for reports of snow he wants a day off - for me as for many its one major hassle.

[beach chick]

cant believe it will hit the south east yet - hope all you northern/welsh/scottish types have everything ready! thermals, candles, tinned beans, milk and bread in the freezeer etc etc.

beautiful photos ....

[The Dogmother]

It was sleeting lightly here this morning Thermometer said 4deg, but the wind was Siberian!

[welovemarmite]

It was sleeting lightly here this morning Thermometer said 4deg, but the wind was Siberian!

 

send it over here..... it only needs to go a couple of miles to us... I cant wait for the snow...

[Old Speckled Hen]

Little bit more on the tops this morning.

This is Walna Scar this morning on my walk with the doggie

 

 

You can just see the cloud rolling down half of it.

It would have been great on top looking down on the cloud.

[Alis girls]

That looks very spooky - I would be running for cover OSH with my ickle doggie.

[Blackrocksrock]

Sounds like we need to batten the hatches this week later on as snow is forecast - loads of food in freezer, bread etc all in and ready for battle - we have a generator in the garage for emergencies and a calor gas portable heater too and plenty candles and wind up torches!.. Let is snow......... for a week and then stop till next November/Dec.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I have been out getting the Cube ready for winter, a good clean out and with the aid of bungees, zip ties and 3 cheap shower curtains, the top of the run has been covered along with the bottom half of the sides ( we had snow drifting into the run last year and the aptly named Snowy refused to come out of the Cube in case her little feathery legs got any where near a snow flake )

[welovemarmite]

I have been out getting the Cube ready for winter, a good clean out and with the aid of bungees, zip ties and 3 cheap shower curtains, the top of the run has been covered along with the bottom half of the sides ( we had snow drifting into the run last year and the aptly named Snowy refused to come out of the Cube in case her little feathery legs got any where near a snow flake )

 

 

we had snow drifts into our run... will have to look and see what we can do to put up when snow is due.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

If it's any help. I used a £3 Wilkinsons shower curtain, cut it into 3 then zip tied it ( had to make a few small holes in it) round the run, making 2 foot high windbreak/snow guard. In fact the curtain went almost all the way round just leaving the door uncovered.

 

I put two shower curtains over the top, one on top of the other as they were old and had holes in.

[Old Speckled Hen]

This will be my first winter with the Cube. The run is already protected top and both sides with a tarp and is quite rainproof I shut the pop hole more to keep Flash's cockadoodledoos quiet than anything else.

 

Here's a winter reminder of last year

 

 

Our House

 

And a satellite image of Great Britain in the freeze

 

[beach chick]

oohh, such lovely pictures I am beginning to get envious of you people who might get snow this week!

 

last time we had it here I was at home with my broken leg, lying on a bed in the kitchen. it was just so lovely to watch the snow coming down and how the garden was transformed, and knowing that the girls and DH were all home for a long w/e and no one could go anywhere. a friend came round with his sledge and the girls went off with him to the shop - came back with lots of wine on the sledge, and then friend's wife and kids came round and we had a very long and very liquid lunch!

[Happy chickens!]

Great pics - saw snow the other week when drove over Pennines to Yorkshire. Lots of holly berries this year too......

[Old Speckled Hen]

I actually want snow in the New Year

I have loads of family up here for 2 weeks over Christmas but they all go home on the 28th and in January I am 60 and hubby has taken the week off. I can think of nothing better than battening down the hatches and spending a whole week together on our own...........sigh