Taking my early morning cuppa this morning, sat on my tablet waiting for today’s paper to download, the tablet suddenly displayed “Snow in 18 minutes.” in the weather app. I glanced out of the lounge window, sun was just coming up and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Dismissing the message as “typical Apple accuracy” I went back to my paper and cuppa.
Around 30 minutes later, walked into the kitchen to drop my cup off before waking up the laptop, I was astounded to see a full on blizzard in the kitchen window and this tree rat not bothered a bit just gnawing on the peanut feeder.
It’s snowed on and off all day, but has now appeared to have ceased. Good news, as I loathe snow with a passion.
Thank you for your views, comments and favs on yesterday’s offering. Much appreciated.
@onewing - Where did you live on Scampton Babs? We were Norfolk Crescent when we first got there, right up at the top by an airfield crash gate, and then moved to Lancaster Drive in the Officer’s patch.
The camp closes for good next year, Arrows are moving to Waddington now the AWACS have moved to Lossiemouth.
One morning shortly after our daughter arrived in London in the mid 1990s, we were watching morning television and they were doing weather from around the world and they said it was snowing in London.
My wife and I looked at each other and said, "Lets call Sonia". Now phoning London in those days was a bloody big deal and we rarely called her, not like today.
So we rang the flat she was living in with a couple of other girls and when she came on we said "So its snowing there?" "No. I don't think so" she said. "Well they just said here that it was snowing in London". "Hang on" she said and pitter, patter, pitter patter as she goes over to a window. Squeeeaak as it is lifted up probably for the first time in years and then SQUEEAL!! and then bang as the window is slammed shut, pitter patter pitter patter (much faster this time "Its snowing!!" Slam goes the receiver and the line goes dead.
So its really funny when you think about it. We had to call her from Australia to tell her to look out her own window to see the snow. 🤣🤣🤣
Nice capture of the squirrel with the snow clearly falling all around. I am a Californian now, but I started life in Idaho until I was 10. Maybe because I was so young when I knew snow I love it….BUT now I can choose when. It doesn’t snow here, but snow is only two hours away. So we can go cross country skiing. The interesting thing is we can freeze all week in fog down here when it’s 40 deg F and go to the mountains where it is barely above freezing to warm up….because the sun is shining.
I remember our first year at Scampton, it snowed from November to April, ugh. I hate snow too, that is why we came to Australia.
The camp closes for good next year, Arrows are moving to Waddington now the AWACS have moved to Lossiemouth.
My wife and I looked at each other and said, "Lets call Sonia". Now phoning London in those days was a bloody big deal and we rarely called her, not like today.
So we rang the flat she was living in with a couple of other girls and when she came on we said "So its snowing there?" "No. I don't think so" she said. "Well they just said here that it was snowing in London". "Hang on" she said and pitter, patter, pitter patter as she goes over to a window. Squeeeaak as it is lifted up probably for the first time in years and then SQUEEAL!! and then bang as the window is slammed shut, pitter patter pitter patter (much faster this time "Its snowing!!" Slam goes the receiver and the line goes dead.
So its really funny when you think about it. We had to call her from Australia to tell her to look out her own window to see the snow. 🤣🤣🤣