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Posted by richard

The snow revisited this part of the world again last night. Paddy texted me asking if I’d seen outside and when I looked it was coming down thick. It’s pretty to see, makes me think of when I was a kid I suppose.

It had started to stick, and the cars were only just making a dent in the snow on the road, but you could tell by the sound of them as they went that it wasn’t going to stay, slush was starting already. And it wasn’t cold enough.

This morning, barely a few flakes remain. So much for that!

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Posted by richard

Had some more snow last night, another inch or so, and this morning as well with the blizzard-like wind conditions. We’re forecast for some more today and tomorrow, with rather a heavy amount, so they say.

This morning I had issues with my internet connection too, TalkTalk are reporting problems with a broken cable in the area and BT are on it. That’ll be the day… It’s odd though that it took me 15 minutes this morning to get connected, but since then I’ve been fine. Seems more of a ‘net problem than a landline issue.

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Posted by richard

We’re not used to this kind of cold!

After our nearly-white Christmas, we are now promised more snow. Although I love snow (it’s one of my first memories as a kid coming back from Kuwait), I have to say I don’t love the cold that comes with it. Unfortunately the weather here seems to favour ice and freezing temperatures rather than masses of snow.

Nevertheless, as you can see from the picture taken from then, we do get snow. I’ll upload some more tonight to my Flickr account. And that was thick for us, a couple of inches, so of course being Britons, it caused mayhem and brought the country to a standstill…

My feet are really beginning to feel a bit chilly right now!

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Posted by richard

Could it be a white Christmas for the first time up here in years? It seems pretty promising, at least if the last few days are anything to go by. It’s been snowing, hailing, sleeting, on and off, and talking with friends and my dad in Sussex, there’s been several inches down there.

The flakes right now are coming down thick, but it’s intermittent. We’ll have 5 minutes of snow, then nothing for 30 minutes, so there’s no gathering of snow as it all melts too quickly.

Anyway, crossing fingers time, let’s hope it’s all picturesque for Christmas!

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Posted by richard

…and the country shuts down.

Sure some places got a lot, 20cm in London, the southeast got it quite bad but really we shouldn’t have much of a problem with this. Why do schools shut down for a few millimetres of snow?

Hey Mac, we got our snow, all of say, 10 millimetres, it was sad. I’m hoping for a bit more, but rain’s forecast so it looks like we’ve had our quota.

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Posted by richard

I almost typed in ‘Shite Christmas’ there, was nearly close to missing it.

But honestly, I mean a white christmas. I haven’t seen one in um.. well actually I can’t remember one. I saw Mac’s post the other day about a bit of snow. A little bit, must be a Canadian understatement thing, as the car outside was swallowed up by a drift and the house opposite disappeared. A “little bit” over here seems almost laughable now.

So poor ‘ol Santa won’t have anywhere to park his sleigh.

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Posted by richard

Isn’t snow so beautiful? I mean I know it’s just frozen rain so to speak, but when it’s snowing it’s far more pictoresque than when it’s raining.

It snowed for about an hour this morning and stayed for a while. But not that long :(

News tonight is, though, that we have lots of snow coming in two days, from the Atlantic. So we should be having lots of wind, snow, blizzard-like conditions, and beautiful scenery covered in snow.

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Posted by richard

Early snow for once. It came a day later than predicted earlier in the week, but still welcome anyway. Just such a pretty picture with everything snowbound. But it does decay into slush quite quickly, but still it’s nice to see once in a while.

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Posted by richard

Having written about it recently, about how snow was forecast, it actually arrived!

Yesterday was a bit of a disappointment after the weather programs telling us it would be here, I got up half expecting a covering of snow but nothing. So it was just another day really.

This morning however, I pulled back the curtains and nearly blinded myself, the white was that encompassing. As you can see from these pictures I took of the (once in a lifetime) event, the first one is out the back window looking at Louth church, quite a shot:

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And out the front window, which was more amusing as when I took the picture, not two seconds after I heard the camera ‘click’ (cameraphone), a huge lump of snow fell from the roof into the front yard:

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Out the back window again, you can just see next door neighbour’s clothes on the washing line that they’d left out, now covered in a thick dollop of snow. Serves ‘em right:

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And the last one, a picture of my back patio, fully laden with snow, and showing it falling down just as it got thicker too. Love the whirlybird covered in the stuff, great pic:

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So I know that it’s not up to Mac and Corey’s standards (those Canadians will tell you less than two feet of snow is just a “light covering”) but for here, it’s a bloody miracle! Fitting really, considering it’s Easter …

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Posted by richard

Well we certainly have the temperatures, because it is bloody freezing!

So here’s wishing (fervently) for a decent white christmas for once. England may be the place lambasted as the home of rain when it’s not elsewhere in the world, but when freezing winter temperatures come that doesn’t mean it gets turned to snow :( We have precious little of it. So much for the pretty Christmas cards with snow everywhere…

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