"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Eventful! You're not kidding ... the phrase "unexpected major surgery" is never a good one tho I'm glad to hear you're almost out of the woods. Something else needs investigating, tho another bad phrase ... "remote working", however, is a *good* phrase, we like that lots the stress of the sale falling through must be a bummer even tho I sold at what might have been the top of the market, and had to pay for a HIPs report - it did mean I found my niche buyer, and bought a place that was much more liveable for me.

Thats me, really! Spent the last year alternately trying to get the new house in the new town (tiny town! about 25,000 people!, tho on a mainline to London) and being ill with, alternately, viruses and arthritis, which are both so yuck they don't bear thinking about.

Now, tho, the worst of the alterations in the house are nearly done - bathroom desperately needs attention, lots of black mould around - but otherwise, all my energy is going on the garden, at last, which is *just* starting to take shape :j and I've made chutney :rotfl:which of course is the most important

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Right ... what am I going to do today? And we had our first frost on the grass! This far south!

Apparently, according to various meteorological organisations, it's going to be a harsh winter again this year. :eek:

I believe that will be 4 in a row.

Karmacat

I heard that, Z ... not good. How do they know, d'you reckon?

ZTD

mizmir wrote: »

Has been eventful! Started the year with unexpected major surgery and since then have been in and out of doctors/hospitals. Am fine overall now - just niggling complications to try to resolve - and while investigating that they found something else that may need surgery - hopefully not urgently! OH has a new job - fantastic one - perfect for her but means we have had to move to the other end of the country - and we're currently still trying to sell our house (was sold but fell through when buyer's buyer withdrew ) . So rent + mortgage + expenses on two houses + still having debts makes things very tight. Add to that changes at work mean I am out of a job in June next year. I am able to work largely remotely until then which at least means we can have a life in the same place but I seriously need to work out a viable income from June.

So here I am.

Oh dear, :grouphug:

At least the hospital treatment worked and you didn't come out with more than you went in with...

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I heard that, Z ... not good. How do they know, d'you reckon?

Apart from tea-leaves you mean?

There could be any number of reasons.

1/ After predicting blistering hot winters for the past 4 years and getting public humiliation and opprobrium for it, they've decided to go for the opposite prediction just in time for a blisteringly hot winter. This is called the "Met Office Prediction System". Polish those barbecues...

2/ Low sunspot numbers are correlated (see Dalton/Maunder minimum) with low temperatures (for a possible mechanism google for Svensmark) - solar cycle 25 has been crapper than a crap thing as far as sunspot numbers go. It has been hilarious as to actually how bad the predictions have been.

Just as a side-issue - google for Livingstone and Peller sunspots.

3/ The changes in UV that happens during the solar cycle have suddenly been "discovered", so it looks like the obsession with TSI may start to be crumbling. The physical mechanism explanations for this deserve to go to the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Apparently heat no longer rises, it "percolates down". :doh:

4/ There are a number of prediction mechanisms based on the jet-streams and where they go. Since they're very big, very fast, and up high where there's not much to push them around, predicting they'll still be there in 3 months time is not that much of a stretch. Where they are dictates which bodies of air get sucked in which direction.

5/ We're currently in a La Nina situation, which is correlated with colder weather (as opposed to El Nino)

6/ Then of course, there are proper computational models extrapolated 3 months into the future. Given their predictive power so far - break open a tea-bag...

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

(tiny town! about 25,000 people!, tho on a mainline to London)

KC you do make me giggle - 25,000 - what I wouldn't give for a proper town - lol - our village has 7000 - but similar to your's is on a mainline to London!!! Had to explain to my cosmopolitain relatives that we were nowhere near the riots a few months ago! More sheep & cows than people in our little corner of England!

XOX
RT

ZTD

rtandon27 wrote: »

KC you do make me giggle - 25,000 - what I wouldn't give for a proper town - lol - our village has 7000 - but similar to your's is on a mainline to London!!! Had to explain to my cosmopolitain relatives that we were nowhere near the riots a few months ago! More sheep & cows than people in our little corner of England!

XOX
RT

Where I live has just over 5,000. And is nowhere near London... :T:T:T:T

Double_Trouble

I live in the big smoke a proper City cathedral et al population approx 14K but 24K if you add the students and we do have a train to London just not very fast or very often :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DTxx

gilligansyle

OK, so I live in a 'proper' city, with more than our fair share of cathedrals, and more universities than seems fair!

But not sure I should be described as a legend who dishes out soapnuts!

It's a lovely cold, sunny day if that's not a contradiction in terms.:D

mizmir

ZTD wrote: »

Oh dear, :grouphug:

At least the hospital treatment worked and you didn't come out with more than you went in with...

No - came out with considerably *less* than I went in with! :rotfl: