Weather

Cold clear starlite night,everything has a layer of ice on it, footpaths,roads frozen. Dangerous conditions,even with Yaktrax on my boots.
Rain forecasted for this morning hope it thaws before it rains on the ice.  
Have a nice day,stay inside.
Boaby

Icy here this morning. Off to my aunt's funeral in Fife this morning, last survivor of my parent's generation, at least I will get some time with my sister for a mask to mask catch up.

Stay safe

Very frosty this morning with heavy rain on the forecast for later. No plans for going out today, plenty to keep me occupied inside.

Take it easy folks 

Lovely bright crisp and a little bit frozen in places. This mornings walk as a lot better for several reasons. Firstly I have found thinsulate hat mk1 in my old rucksack. Two I managed to walk on the less slippery bits and lastly muttly has sorted this slippery ice stuff. 
There is a huge frozen puddle part way round the walk and he managed to walk across it to his favorite patch of grass. Normally he walks round puddles so it was quite funny watching him stopping in middle and sniffing the ice. 
It didnt take long to clear the snow and defrost the Polo for managements appointment. Its nearly as good as our Saab was for cold starting and heating apart from the lack of heated seats. 
The Rienza is coming home in the morning. It has been inside tucked up nice and warm all weekend so being left outside when we come home will be a bit of a shock.

Condolences Bilbo hope the day goes as well as possible.
Be careful out there in that ice and snow, or should I say on that ice, it is a bone breaker.
6 degrees down here, odd spot of mizzle otherwise a fairly still morning. Should really be having a walk but want to finish the last of the reno chores, door handles to fit etc.

Have a great day all 

Condolences BB, none of our clan left either, only the youngers, take care on the roads.
Suns out here,cool breeze,suns not shining over the roof ridges ,so we are in a wee frost pocket.
Boaby

Have you guys thought about studded ice shoes instead of yaktrax. Not sure you can get them here or not but I have always found on sheet ice yaktrax are pretty poor.

Here we are: GoreTex, and on hard surface the studs retract by being squashed into their mounts.

https://scandinavianoutdoor.com/icebug/shoes/winter-footwear/pace3-w-bugrip-gtx/

Thanks for the kind thoughts guys. Went as well as can be expected.

Safely home with a warming cuppa. Not going out again today as too cold.

Stay safe

groundhog wrote:Have you guys thought about studded ice shoes instead of yaktrax. Not sure you can get them here or not but I have always found on sheet ice yaktrax are pretty poor.

I find YT ideal on frozen slush GH, I keep away from ice sheets.      ,I can remove the YT before I drive the car and remove all the ice and crap from the soles of my. Boots.
Salt treated surfaces have thrawed ,however the side roads and footpaths are still very slippery.
Freezing again.
Boaby

Thawed out overnight,with the remnants of snowmen in front gardens, reasonable walk out with Tag and back for his breakfast,porridge for me later.
Stay warm and dry, mind yer face masks.
Boaby

We've never stopped wearing masks up here, although there are still the "can't be bothered/what's the fuss/I know better" folk who don't. On our recent trip to Madeira, anyone going into a shop without one was very, very quickly challenged. Here, not so much 

Bit milder today, almost into double figures for a few hours until the cold stuff returns with cold, blustery rain. Big jacket, hat and gloves are de rigueur 

Although overcast its a lot milder, with a light breeze, wife has a big washing on, so it's all hands to the steamie.
Boaby

12 degrees here this morning but still a light mizzle, just enough to prevent doing the last of the leaf collecting and mowing.
Same for masks here, we have never stopped wearing them, we are miserable beggars though and rarely go anywhere indoors apart from the local Sainsbury's which we do very early in the morning to avoid everyone else.

When we go out we tend to go, well, out and rarely spend time in pubs and restaurants. Much prefer walking on the beach or across the clifftops.

Have a great day all

Wet. With wind to come

Breezy and mild with heavy rain showers coming in of the sea,      
duked out with Tag for a brief walk before the next set of showers comes in.
Have a nice day,keep warm.
Boaby

Morning bb

Strong NW wind but mild again, 10 degrees. Heavy showers in between the sunny bits, could be a lot worse for beginning of December. Should be able to get out and do some work between the showers, more pots to go in the greenhouse and hanging baskets to get down.
Have a great day all 

It seemed a bit warmer last night when we set off for our evening walk so it was fleece and no hat. Typically half way round the walk the rain started. Muttly stopped and looked at me but must have desperate so carried on to the grass.
It’s dry this morning but I won’t risk it so the big walking coat and hat will go on. Muttly has a bit of a thing about the towel so drying him involves cornering him first.

Started raining yesterday around mid afternoon and it's not stopped since. Don't expect any change for the foreseeable 

In the meantime, if I hear one more TV or radio presenter say, "can we save Christmas?", I may well inflict physical damage 

Askit wrote:Started raining yesterday around mid afternoon and it's not stopped since. Don't expect any change for the foreseeable 

In the meantime, if I hear one more TV or radio presenter say, "can we save Christmas?", I may well inflict physical damage 

Heard one today say is travel spreading the virus? dohlt!

Teaming down again.

groundhog wrote:

Askit wrote:Started raining yesterday around mid afternoon and it's not stopped since. Don't expect any change for the foreseeable 

In the meantime, if I hear one more TV or radio presenter say, "can we save Christmas?", I may well inflict physical damage 

Heard one today say is travel spreading the virus? dohlt!

Reassuring to have all these experts on hand 

Much to my surprise it has turned out to be a lovely sunny day. Still bit of cloud about but it's dry so that will do.

burlingtonboaby wrote:Teaming down again.

Same here this afternoon.

Continuing to rain all afternoon with the East Coast hit the hardest,forecasted to below zero tonight .
Not nice walking conditions.
Boaby

Management has just said there is a yellow weather warning for this area. Heavy rain and possible freezing.It will be woolly hat and gloves for our late walk. Now I have the Rienza back I have hats and gloves available.