I have been wussing out since my appendix went in the last snow.
@unhurt - Balerno photo on BBC news looked messy.
@crowriver - roads get more heat from the sun and don't cool down as fast as thin metal in the wind, it has started to get slushy and some snow now lying on pavements around the Rutland area
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Snow is heavy but not lying, melting away when it hits surfaces
Not south of Edinburgh it isn't. About three inches so far, and it's very, very wet snow.
I had a horrible ride home, about an hour ago. Again I had the problem of my cycling glasses snowing up on the outside and fogging up on the inside. On the A703 drivers were generally being patient and giving me plenty of space, but every one of them was oblivious to the mountains of slush thrown upwards and sideways when they passed me. I ended up with brown slush in my eyes, on my gloves, and all over the torpedo. It might have been better to be on an upright bike, all things considered.
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It's starting to lie here in EH12. Below zero tonight so streets will be hell tomorrow.
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Stupid patronising person in the office telling me to take care and leave the bike at the office overnight. I don't mind the "Oh are you going to be OK?" type stuff but someone telling me what I should or shouldn't do annoys me. I'm old enough to make my own decisions.
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side roads in EH11 quite white/slushy/sloppy. Bus route (10/27) looking slushy/sloppy.
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Rainfall ALREADY above average for April.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/gcvwr3zrw
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Really glad I put the wholly ineffective mudguards on the cross bike this morning and brought it in. I also brought more layers than I was wearing in mid winter which I presume will be necessary. Hopefully canal not too bad.
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i saw one bike going long the towpath - taking it very slowly.
Not many on foot either.
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...I have zero desire to leave the office this evening. Maybe I'll just sleep under my desk?
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There is a duck swimming around the kids' play area in Inch park.
Amusingly that's behind the Braid Burn flood wall.
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Just sloshed through ankle deep slush to catch the tram at Saughton.
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wind seems to be slackening. snow less horizontal.
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Being home alone (Mrs G and family being away) I did have a plan to get up very early tomorrow morning and do a quick round of the Pentlands via Carnwath before work.
I have given up on this plan (although I may still leave work early tomorrow and see if I can fit it in before it gets too dark).
Tonight I'm going to walk to the local curry house and collect a takeaway curry as I'm not normally allowed these.
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My employer is getting a bit of "I'm not going home in that" bonus effort from me. Looks like it's easing though, snow has stopped in Leith.
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I moved my bike from the covered but open outdoor rack to the secure indoor parking in my building (which frustratingly lacks any access to my wing, hence I don't make use of it) before gratefully accepting a lift home with a friend. I hope that the towpath is clear by tomorrow evening...
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I feel quite glad I have not yet put my tatties in the ground, though they do be chitting
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@gembo, I planted mine last week, albeit with a decent covering of soil which hopefully will protect from frost.....garlic is thriving though. Will wait until weekend before planting onion sets.
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Discovered soles of boots no longer watertight. Most unfortunate day for this discovery.
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@crowriver, yes I am well late for my earlies.
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Have to confess that, patronizing colleague or not, I also accepted a lift home. Not because it was safer or quicker but because it was warmer.
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chit (n.1)
"a short letter, note," 1776, short for chitty (1690s), from Mahrati (Hindi) chitthi "letter, note, memorandum," from Sanskrit chitra-s "distinctively marked" (see cheetah).chit (n.2)
"small child," 1620s, originally "young of an animal" (late 14c.), of uncertain origin; perhaps a playful deformation of kitten, but Middle English Dictionary compares Old High German kizzin "kid" and Century Dictionary mentions Old English cið "a shoot, sprout, sprig."cheetah (n.)
"large, spotted cat of India," 1704, from Hindi chita "leopard," from Sanskrit chitraka "hunting leopard, tiger," literally "speckled," from chitra-s "distinctively marked, variegated, many-colored, bright, clear" (from PIE *kit-ro-, from root *skai- "to shine, gleam, be bright;" see shine (v.)) + kayah "body," from PIE *kwei- "to build, make" (see poet).poet (n.)
early 14c., "a poet, a singer" (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old French poete (12c., Modern French poète) and directly from Latin poeta "a poet," from Greek poetes "maker, author, poet," variant of poietes, from poein, poiein "to make, create, compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from root *kwei- "to pile up, build, make" (source also of Sanskrit cinoti "heaping up, piling up," Old Church Slavonic činu "act, deed, order").Replaced Old English scop (which survives in scoff). Used in 14c., as in classical languages, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. Poète maudit, "a poet insufficiently appreciated by his contemporaries," literally "cursed poet," attested by 1930, from French (1884, Verlaine). For poet laureate see laureate.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Nice sunset, Spring starts tomorrow -
https://www.yr.no/en/overview/daily/2-2650225/United%20Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh
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Yes violet out there now the snow has stopped
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Crewe Toll - Bonnyrigg at 1730 tonight (avoiding city centre): no real slush until past Hilltown but wouldn't want to be going further south or uphill. Pleasant it wasn't but as ever the main risk was people's general inability to drive to the conditions...
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It was quite a slushy cycle home was ok on the roads but the paths were quite rubbish luckly still have studs on not sure be possible on paths with no stud.
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the dalmeny flood actually had its own tide today
surely a sign that the end times they are upon us
Posted 6 years ago # -
Snow frozen solid in West Ed now. Roads look clear but beware black ice on untreated sections 1st thing.
Bucket in garden agrees with chdot around 3 inches in last couple of days.
Opposite extreme of last year where early seedlings dehydrated. Hopefully tatties in buckets in greenhouse will survive.
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Going to make a trek down to haymarket shortly. Not looking forward to that... main roads it is...!
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Garden is completely under water clay soil and historically bog so no real surprise.
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Chilly but crisp and bright on way to station this morning. Pleasant enough, not as much ice as I'd feared on footways: definitely watch out though: wherever there's been standing or running water overnight there is lots of ice.
City is extremely quiet for a weekday morning too. Even Waverley largely deserted. Feels like I shouldn't be at work... :-(
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