I really must apologise for the recent lamentable lack of interesting new images to accompany these posts. I can only beg your indulgence for what will doubtless be an equivocation of excuses.
As ever I carry the Fuji X10 with me every day – to work and elsewhere – looking for opportunities to record what I see and whatever tickles my fancy. However, the start of this year really has featured atmospheric and climatic conditions of such a truly dire nature that the impetus to indulge in observational lacunae has been strictly limited. In other words – the weather has been so sh*t that I can’t be ar*ed to stop to take pictures!
This time last year – as is evidenced in this post from last March – saw the UK basking in almost summer-like conditions with the temperature approaching 20C. I enjoyed a wonderful top-down drive down to the coast in Pearl on the occasion of a family funeral.
This year – as can been seen from the accompanying image – temperatures struggle to rise above zero and even the south of England is still suffering snow falls and heavy frosts. The poor daffodils look shocked and stunned and resolutely refuse to open their buds. Who can blame them? Last March was the third warmest here on record. By contrast – in some parts of the UK – last weekend was the coldest March weekend for 50 years. What’s more, there is no sign of the weather improving this side of Easter!
Bah! – and Bah again!!
Our dear friends in Saanichton report that temperatures in Victoria are up into the mid-teens – and that spring has well and truly arrived. I will do my very best just to feel happy for them – and not to be at all bitter!
How am I doing?
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I can definitely sympathise with your lack of enthusiasm as a result of the weather although, despite the extremes we have had here recently, I suspect in the South the dreariness of rain / sleet / snow, I hear reported from friends and family, are worse.
We haven’t had much in the way of sleet and no rain for quite some time. We have, however, had snow, snow and yet more snow. As somebody who walks or cycles as much as drives, I dislike the first two but I can live with (and normally enjoy) snow – it does seem, however, that enough is enough.
If I’ve got my HTML right, the link below shows the view from our bedroom window yesterday morning (it’s George’s Blipfoto journal). Needless to say, we didn’t venture out much.
Cheers,
Brian-
Oh dear…I didn’t get my HTML quite right. Ooops.
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Your link seems to work from here – and from my mobile…
…and you’re not wrong about the sleet/snow/rain etc.
I don’t think I’d fancy cycling in snow though…
Cheers
Andy
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If you remember, my mountain bike has ridiculous chunky off-road tyres – totally impractical for riding on roads under normal conditions but they cope really well with snow and ice.
My last link to the snow up here (I promise). From somebody else on Blipfoto – a chap who lives in Ilkely (about 8 miles north of us). Taken on the moors, I certainly wouldn’t like to be “baht’at” in this situation.
Cheers,
Brian-
OK – that is serious snow. Can’t compete with that!
The fact remains, however, that it is nearly April – and the temperatures everywhere are struggling to get above 1C or 2C. Bah!
Andy
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