The view from my study window.
And part of the garden
More of the garden
Ellie wondering where the lawn has gone
Wednesday 28 February 2018
When in my last blog I suggested that polar weather was forecast and so it turned out, yesterday (Tues) saw our first snow for six years. It finally ended up about six inches deep and with a chill factor of up to -10 degrees forecast today, it is not going to be very pleasant.
The view from my study window.
And part of the garden
More of the garden
Ellie wondering where the lawn has gone
The view from my study window.
And part of the garden
More of the garden
Ellie wondering where the lawn has gone
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I bet you'd have preferred several days of heavy rain to flood the reserve Derek!
ReplyDeleteToo right Steve, at least I'd be able to drive about. At the moment we're pretty much housebound here due to road closures and inability to get anywhere. Minus 9 at the moment.
ReplyDeleteSimilar amountof snow overnight here too Derek and much colder here today. The wind appears to be getting up which won;t help but looking out of the study window where I am sitting, there is a lot of blue sky so it isn't all bad news.
ReplyDeleteDerek, I don't think seen Ellie before. She makes a nice photo.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for showing us the map of your area. It's certainly different. A part of the world I've never been to. In fact if you drew a line from Stanstead to Isle of Wight everything south of it, apart from passing through London and Dover, would be foreign to me.
"Hi Derek" - I'm visiting from Weaver's, and can see it's about time! I've often seen your comments on her wonderful blog but never stopped by here. . . . . and now see how much I've been missing about life in such an interesting part of the UK, one I'm not familiar with. I especially enjoyed your tales of snowy childhood/school days - I do recall similar when we occasionally had snow in Devon, but still had to walk to school!
ReplyDeleteOriginally from Torquay, I've lived here in the US for many, many years, however I still think of myself as a true Brit, and Torquay will always remain HOME!
I'm reading back through your great posts rather quickly as I'm pushed for time - but I'll be back more often after my upcoming trip to Patagonia. I'm really interested in reading more about your birdwatching - I've done so much of that around the world. . . . . . even in my garden, and feed and water (and of course photograph) so many birds and often post about them, perhaps to the point where readers get sick of me!!!!
Must tell you, my dream whilst in Chile is to see the Andean condor overhead - fingers crossed that day will come!
Take care in that snowfall - hope you stocked up the larder and wine rack!
Best wishes - Mary (in North Carolina)
Excellent comments Mary, thanks for stopping by, look forward to hearing more from you.
ReplyDeletewe Have plenty of snow here in Manchester. It’s been a wonderful
ReplyDeleteOpportunity to sit with a cup of tea and enjoy the activity on and around the bird feeders. I was thrilled to bits to see a bullfinch on the tree the feeders hang from early this morning. In the 40+ years we have lived here this is a first for me. Ashamed to admit I had to look it up to identify it, I am not an experienced bird watcher so feel free to laugh at my ignorance!
Rather than laugh at you, I applaud your interest in birds and how you looked up the bird so that you could name it - well done.
ReplyDeleteGlad I don't have to deal with that snow! Am in Dallas at the moment with drizzling rain but warmish temps. Ellie looks perplexed. She is a cutie.
ReplyDeleteSnowed in here now.
ReplyDeleteOur main problem here now Rachel, is the strong E wind and it's very low chill factor and the lying snow being drifted across some roads where once hedgerows would of held it back - the hedgerows of course having been grubbed out.
DeleteA gateway in hedge to a field is enough to let a drift through and block a road. That is all it takes. We have strong winds and the drifting now which started yesterday afternoon.
DeleteWe're back to blizzard conditions again on Sheppey this morning and roads that were dry and snow free are now impassable.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI know you are a tough guy Derek but how will the other Kentish folk fare? It will be like Armageddon.
ReplyDeleteNot so tough these days, the 70 yr old bones don't shrug it off like they used to and I've always been a warm weather person anyway.
ReplyDeleteTotally with you there Derek! I decided it would be lunacy to try and get right across Sheppey in the last few days, so have stayed in the warm. And I am sure you can recall when, in 1986?, the armed forces had to airlift supplies to a Sheppey cut off from the world?
DeleteJan 1987 that was. Thawing fast now though.
Delete