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Zero needs to be recalled. "Play was suspended at Edgbaston, the Hampshire Ageas Bowl and Surrey County Cricket Club as snow flurries arrived at lunchtime." He may however be snow blind:)
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Yeah, had some in Reading earlier this afternoon, which I thought was fitting given the Christmas pressie thread in Motoring.
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We had a downpour of haily sleety stuff for about half an hour. The little white spheres covered the ground thinly. They soon melted.
April is the cruellest month according to some poetical chap whose name I am proud to forget.
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Driving into town for a meeting at 13:30. Went through a snow/hail squall for about five minutes. Ten minutes later when I'd parked it was briht sunshine.
Still bloomin cold though.
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>> haily sleety stuff for about half an hour. The little white spheres covered the ground thinly. They soon melted.
North wind of course, very parky.
I peer at the weather maps on late night TV. They aren't too misleading but a bit small down in our corner. They're surprisingly informative considering.
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Could never get much beyond that first line. Chaucer is better on Aprill shoures.
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>> Chaucer is better on Aprill shoures.
Oh stop it CGN...
'Whan that aprille with his shoures swoote
The droghte of marche hathe perced to the roote
And Zephirus eke, with his sweete breath
Inspired hath in every holt and heath
The tendre croppes; and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe-cours y-ronne,
.....
And smale foules maken melodye
(So priketh hem natur in hir corages):
Then longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And specially, from every Shire's ende
Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende...
Remembered those imperfect extracts from A Level.
Hath in the Ram his halfe-cours y-ronne... (etc etc)
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"Could never get much beyond that first line. Chaucer is better on Aprill shoures."
The only bit of Chaucer that I can remember is from the Nun's Priest's Tale when Chaunticleer praises Pertelote with “Mulier est hominis confusioâ€, translating it as “Woman is man’s joy and all his blissâ€, when it actually translates “Woman is man’s ruinâ€.
I frequently mutter it to Mrs H.
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>> April is the cruellest month according to some poetical chap whose name I am proud to forget.
Herself reminds me that it is T S Eliot. I knew really but the name escaped me as they so often do.
That Ezra Pound though... now you're talking.
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Snow/sleet/hail in Sarf Manchester this afto. Was going to change the pads and discs on the Vitara today....glad I didn't start. See what tomorrow brings.
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It's the first line of "The Waste Land". The first line is as far as I ever got.
Ezra Pound become rather unfashionable because of his political,views didn't he.?
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Are the supplies of winter tyres holding up, there must be panic buying by now. :-)
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I'm still wearing my Vredestein wintrac xtremes!!
Bin out over the tops as LL would say - biting wind, more like Feb than April. No white stuff about down here.
I even sat out in the sun for a while 'til it was obscured by clouds (Pink Floyd)
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Just experienced my seventh (I think) fall of snow since I got rid of my 4WD car 3 months ago
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Has the lack of a 4x4 stopped you from getting to where you wanted to be in the three months?
My guess is no.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Tue 26 Apr 16 at 20:47
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Been to Somerset today, snow there and in the Midlands coming back and sleety stuff back here in Cheshire.
Whole trip in a RWD Merc with summer tyres too.
Should I be dead?
;-))
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You will be fine, you live north of the M4 and were trained up here. :-)
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Armel-type precipitation in Poole yesterday, practically on the Equator.
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Snow. In Surrey. - Focusless
