Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Just popped on to say there’s some colour in the sky on this camera, potential to be something really good I think 🤞🏻

https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/cliff-cam/

YoungBlueEyes

That camera didn't show the Northern Lights, but it did show atmospheric moonlit clouds

I agree about your vid Dusty. Tell you what it reminded me of - when you're in college and you're told to 'do a piece about the future with particular reference to climate change', and you can go mad with it so you stand out and get lots of points... it went from ridiculously overbearing to farcically ridiculous imo. It's a shame cos a more measured approach would have got more people on board. Softly gently catchy monkey and all that. I still think Mother Nature will sort Climate Change while we tinker around the edges with our carbon credits and bug farms. Maybe they'll be some inventions coming down the line that'll make a bit of difference, but they'll not be the difference. Was it India/Malaysia (?) that invented those big road signs with sciencey gubbins in the back so they sucked in the surrounding air, cleaned it up and turned it into drinking water. That's brilliant, properly clever and actually useful. But is it going to save the world...? 

Cold here but not as cold as it was. Phone says 0' feels like -3, and it does because we've inches of snow out there! Pic in a min. More to come this morning too, or not, and it may or may not rain on top of it. But at least we're heading above freezing temps now, even if it is only technically.  Nothing beautiful in the window art dept this morning though Did anybody else get any? I can't remember now who else is on my side of the country... how about DGD Farway?

YoungBlueEyes

Pic from kitchen window. This is a couple of hours ago and you can just see blackie was up before me! 

Farway

Raining here, I think it's same stuff as Dustys. The temperature has rocketed by ten degrees overnight, it's 50F in my unheated conservatory now. Not heard update from DGD up Far North, but maybe they were all busy? St Andrew's Day in a posh, stately type home? I know they were making wreaths the other day!

Nice calm snowy pic YBE, can't spot Blackie though, is like a Spot The Ball competition

I never watched vid all the way, but I'm still waiting for the flying cars and the Polar Bears roaming in Trafalgar Square we were promised back in the 70s, it was a global freezing back then, and we'd all have to move to Africa

Gardening today, has to be trundling the garden wheelie bin round for collection on Tuesday, supposed to be even wetter tomorrow so if a drier spell arrives later today I'll do it then

Can't see any photo opportunities, except maybe raindrops on wheelie bins

PS, just spotted Blackie

Dustyevsky

Lovely, unblemished snow there, Bluey. I see you are a 2 barrow household.

It's about 6c here, and very wet. Due to brighten a little and be less rainy, but there's no way I can carry on with completing the polytunnel. Our hedge-cutting guy is due with his tractor, though I have doubts he'll show, and he won't remember a thing we agreed if he does!

Lots of blackies here, swooping around, arguing and sorting out mates/territories. A thrush has been spotted too, though only at a distance, like the fieldfares. They and the sheep are rapidly consuming the fallen apples now.

Your mention of uni or college videos reminded me, I was in the vanguard of those in the early 70s when it was assumed (wrongly) that teachers would soon be producing their own visual materials. We had a full sized studio underground, which was a bit suspicious, but then, in the 60s, I belonged to a club held in a nuclear bunker many floors down....so maybe not!    Anyway, there was no splicing or post-production editing, and the reel to reel machines ran so fast the maximum time allowed was 10 minutes. We did everything on a rota, from acting to sitting at the control desk and working the cameras, but the best bit was we could leave as soon as it was 'in the can.' I recall  we got into all sorts of bother on one day, trying to explain heredity using kittens. Having started at 14.00, we were not released until 19.00, and that was because they were shutting down! Never work with animals, of course, especially not kittens!            

Before the cold snap is but a memory, here's a piccie from yesterday. It's almost all foliage, but near the centre it's just possible to see a few of the first primroses.

YoungBlueEyes

Aye he was sat on the feeder, squawking at me that there was too much snow and when will breakfast be here. That was just before 6am and I was barely up! 

Wreath making in a/for a posh stately home Farway, how very civilised Sounds like she's cracking along then eh? 

Nice pic Dusty, all the different foliage is beautiful. A club in a nuclear bunker...? Jeez we need a 'rambling nonsense' thread so that we're never off topic cos there isn't a topic. 

2 barrows - well we only had the one originally but himself popped the wheel pushing it over sharp things when he was doing all that hardcore. So I said I'd have that and make a pond out of it, and he could requisition one from work go get another. That was however many months ago, bit slack for it all to still be sat there tbh. Blackie and the robin like it though, it's a staging post between the cat wee tree and the feeder, because they're so far apart....

OT still no more snow or rain or wind or nothing. It's exactly the same out there, but with more daylight. And footprints.

(And I'm liking the new sigs.)

ArbitraryRandom

It's bleddy cold again today (at least in the less heated parts of the house). Tusky tells me it's 'only' 4 degrees, but I think because it's been cold for a while now the residual heat in the building has been eroded so it's now actually feeling the temp (iykwim?). No snow, and not even any frost, but feeling much colder than a couple of days ago when there was. 

I have a mission to read (finish) 180 books this year, and I've got 47 left... so I'm unlikely to meet my goal, but today has been a good effort as I've not wanted to do anything else  

twopenny

Wow Bluey, real snow! That was a,surprise.
Dusty, wonderful misty photo. I do like that for atmosphere.
Farway, was surprised you were so much colder than us - though when i used to stay in Herts it surprised me then that it was colder.
Abs, I have an online mate that reads books for a living? Sounds good if you have to work as you can do it inside or out dependent on weather.......
During the lockdowns she had the plumber coming and said she was going to lock him in for someone to talk to   

Went from 5-7+ today and started raining of course. So don't want a wet Christmas tree inside
Sort of washed the car as it's mot (which it will fail) and first visit with doctor in 4yrs tomorrow followed by dentist on Tuesday instead of fun walk.

Surprised as I dashed between the back door and garage to see that my potted bulbs are peeping up. I already have the wrong sort of iris in full leaf out front even though I thought I'd dug them all up.
So I'll just bluff it out when they bloom and pretend it was meant.

A bit chilly tonight but not bitingly cold inside so far. Very thick cloud.

Bluey, I roamed around those web cams last night on a laptop. Some colour but pixlated and I think just a camera thing.
I did see a shooting star though, bright as anything 
I still find it amazing that I can see real time way up there from my sofa!
Have another contact that posts cams from the Serengeti.....just incredible thought.
 

Dustyevsky

Aurora very visible on Burradale Web Cam at 22.43 Sunday night!

YoungBlueEyes

I agree about the temps matching each other Arb. Unheated rooms were warm enough 'til these last few days, now unheated means cold.
180 books in a year! Sure that's a book every other day, that's some challenge. Is that for your work or are you just a book hooverer-upper? Depending how big they are you could possibly do the remainder this year. Cats/employers/weather permitting

Good luck with your doings today 2p, I hope your car and your broken bum are sorted and you're back to fine fettle :fingerscrossed:
Seems it's a powerful year for irises. When I rang my aunt last night she was saying hers are coming up, and her snowdrops. She plants irises every year for her (late) sister who was named after them.
I think the pixelation depends on the camera and whether it's day or night. Sometimes I'll look at them in the day and they're all clear as a bell (as are the bird calls and crashing waves) but the same camera at night is not so good. Do you see good stuff on your Serengeti ones? I've shown you mine, you show me yours I agree they're amazing, the things technology can do now are fantastic. I remember sitting in my back garden a few years ago when the ISS went over, thinking 'my god, there's people on that'. Astonishing.

That's a fab pic Dusty, crisp and clear and wondrous. They really are an actual wonder aren't they.

@wort stick some wellies in with your scarf and jumper for when you land - the place is awash!   

Also - 3 weeks today it'll be Christmas