When I woke at 6am, it was cold in our bedroom even though the heating came on an hour earlier. I suspected I’d see a hard frost when I looked out the back door, much as we’ve had for the past three days with temperatures down to -4C overnight. I was wrong. I didn’t see […]
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Normal weather resumes
The house felt a little cold when I woke this morning. Not bitterly cold, but definitely colder than the 14ºC we’ve experienced over the past fortnight thanks to the warm spell that saw outside temperatures scrape above 20ºC on several occasions. I wandered out the back door, expecting cloud and perhaps rain. Instead, I found […]
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It’s March, isn’t it?
I thought we were still in March when I woke this morning: the third month of the year, the end of winter and the beginning of spring, a cool month in this part of Scotland. By 11am I was having second thoughts, perhaps we were really in May or even June as the sun shone […]
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It’s warm, or so I hear
I was surprised this morning when I heard BBC Radio 4 proclaim a warm end to 2011. In fact, I was so surprised I picked up the camera, put on multiple layers of clothes, slipped into my overtrousers and jacket, wrapped a scarf around my neck, popped my woolly hat on, went outside and crunched […]
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
We’re firmly into the storm season now although the media appears to think today’s winds are something unusual with their focus on ‘huge’ waves, hurricane winds and people who ‘can’t remember the last time it was this bad’. How about last winter? Wind speed is around 50mph, with gusts to 70mph. It is dangerous outside, […]
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15 October, 2012 

