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  • Why is it so cold? The Met Office says that it's 14 degrees but feels like 11.

    Even in that long dry period is was rarely warm, at least here.
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    edited May 26
    You may, @Piglet but I should warn you the current urge has now worn off and who knows when it will return again... plus, the 300 miles or so between your address and mine is a bit of an inconvenience.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    :mrgreen:

    Perhaps I'll have to try someone local ...

    I have, however, done the Iron Ing. :innocent:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Why is it so cold? The Met Office says that it's 14 degrees but feels like 11.

    It's the Wind Chill, something I got well used to in Canada. 🥶

  • It's ridiculously cold even without the Wind Chill!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It's still warm enough in West Lothian that I have the windows open, but that may have been partly due to having cacio e pepe for supper, which was quite, well, peppery ... 😋
    My online check-in is done, and all I need now is a few last minute bits of shopping; I've discovered that the suitcase that I thought was small enough to take in the cabin isn't, so I'll have to see if I can get a slightly smaller one tomorrow. I'm not hugely bothered; I didn't really like the one I have, but it's a bit of an embuggerance all the same.

    Memo to self - get:

    * Suitcase
    * Sun cream
    * Euros
    * Mobile sorted re: roaming
    * Adapters for chargers
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited May 26
    Not too cold, but dull and grey in Arkland the Dull and Grey - so much so that a dull grey Mood has been engendered in my mind, and today has dragged by, dully and greyly, on dull leaden grey feet. Tomorrow is also likely to be dull and grey, but enlivened by Rain.

    Bah.

    CHEESE and a glass of WINE will cheer me up, I expect.
    :smile:
  • We spent the day at Hatfield House, which is fantastic with some beautiful, and famous, Tudor and Stuart paintings of the royals, lords etc.
    Mr Heavenly is currently at his parents’ house for the evening while I read. I might have a glass of wine.
  • Piglet wrote: »
    It's still warm enough in West Lothian that I have the windows open, but that may have been partly due to having cacio e pepe for supper, which was quite, well, peppery ... 😋
    My online check-in is done, and all I need now is a few last minute bits of shopping; I've discovered that the suitcase that I thought was small enough to take in the cabin isn't, so I'll have to see if I can get a slightly smaller one tomorrow. I'm not hugely bothered; I didn't really like the one I have, but it's a bit of an embuggerance all the same.

    Memo to self - get:

    * Suitcase
    * Sun cream
    * Euros
    * Mobile sorted re: roaming
    * Adapters for chargers

    Do you really need the euros? In two weeks just past in Scotland I never handled a single coin; same in Scotland and Ireland a year ago. Plastic worked everywhere.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm working on the "better safe than sorry" principle: what if they have another power cut? 😳
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    We went to the steam fair in Abergavenny yesterday. There weren’t as many showman’s engines as usual, but still a good day out.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    I've just walked down to our local hospital to pick up some more hearing aid batteries and check I'm on the waiting list for an appointment to check my hearing. I have a feeling it might be a long wait.
    I got home just as it started to rain. I have no need to be out again today, though if the weather cheers up a bit I'll pop out and do a bit of gardening.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm currently on the tram, pootling to the Gyle shopping centre, to meet my sister for lunch and some retail therapy. And I remembered my shopping list! 😃
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    edited 12:00PM
    Piglet wrote: »
    I'm working on the "better safe than sorry" principle: what if they have another power cut? 😳

    Wise.

    Inside jobs here today as gardening is prevented due to Much Drizzle. The blackbirds are loving it!

    I took Ted on his walk very early and managed to dodge the start of the rain, but it's set in now.
  • Wet and Windy in Arkland the Drenched - gardens and fields need the rain, but why do They (TPTB) always save it up for bank holidays/half-term?

    No Pilates today, because half-term, so I haven't had to go out in the rain. The tides are high this week, so The Yard Lads are busy moving various boats in or out of the water - not a job to be envied in today's weather.
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    It wasn’t forecast to rain here until this afternoon but it started whilst I was out this morning and is very wet rain.
    Our town has no bank* so I had to get the bus to the next town. I meant to stay on the bus home, past my house, to go into my town centre to collect a prescription, but I forgot. I shall have to go tomorrow whatever the weather as my medication runs out, so that means going twice as the pharmacy shuts at 1pm and I have a meeting at 3. The forecast is good for tomorrow.

    * I finally managed to count and bag up all the loose change, plus an old £20 note, to deposit in my account. Yet another of Mr P’s “ collections”. £34.95 in total. I miscounted, but they still accepted an incomplete bag of of 5p coins.
  • Tree BeeTree Bee Shipmate
    Wet today because half term. Went to the garden centre with youngest grandson and spent lots on plants to brighten our garden. Hoping to plant them at the weekend. Daughter Erin happily reports that a hedgehog is regularly visiting their garden.
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