How's the weather where you are today ?
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MaC
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And I'm complaining about being overcast.
We long for cold bright winters at times, but -20 is not fun. It's beyond not fun.
Beachlover
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8C and overcast here today. I feel a weekend on the allotment coming on. 
CaptainBeaky
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Grey, dry and cool.
BorderReiver
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Ditto.
Gower Ranger
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I love this cold, dry, winter weather.
Woody Girl
Happy Camper
7° and sunny this morning. 😎
Bikini weather!😄
Bikini weather!😄
MaC
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Icy cold start, but the Sun came up, and we went to the Farmers/Craft market at Chatelherault....which was a muddy mess and unbelievably busy. I think half of Lanarkshire and their dogs were there.
On a good note though, Himself and Son2 got the ladders out and cleared the rones. Plants growing in them apparently. I reckon it's the damned pigeons dropping seeds.
M
On a good note though, Himself and Son2 got the ladders out and cleared the rones. Plants growing in them apparently. I reckon it's the damned pigeons dropping seeds.
M
Woody Girl
Happy Camper
BorderReiver
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Blackbirds perform the same service here.
Mind you, it's easier to clean up after them than after the Sahara Desert sand that turns up occasionally.
Saint-Just
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Blackbirds down here are the worst nest builders around (after the pigeons, but they're just flying rats anyway): Every year we have one that builds his nest in the Virginia creeper; the thing is, the most rigid thing going outward are the leaves' stems, which might do for a small bird but can't cope with the weight of a blackbird chick, let alone 3. We managed to save one last year, as although he couldn't yet fly he had his feathers and could jump from branch to branch, and we fed him a couple of days before he flew away.Blackbirds perform the same service here.
Mind you, it's easier to clean up after them than after the Sahara Desert sand that turns up occasionally.
It’s now 5 degrees and the 10 day forecast is largely mild temperatures, overcast and some rain.
A real contrast to previous winters I’ve experienced here.
It’s a shift that has been happening for a long time as the jet stream stays further north in the winter.
Interestingly the mild temperatures delay spring plant activity here as the plants don’t experience their usual triggers.
A real contrast to previous winters I’ve experienced here.
It’s a shift that has been happening for a long time as the jet stream stays further north in the winter.
Interestingly the mild temperatures delay spring plant activity here as the plants don’t experience their usual triggers.
Gower Ranger
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Beautiful, crisp weather at the moment.
Sunset dog walk included egrets and nicely silhouetted ponies in the dunes.
Sunset dog walk included egrets and nicely silhouetted ponies in the dunes.
MaC
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You and your dog are having a grand life 
Gower Ranger
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MaC
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Oh, I'm sure but the dog and you out for a walk ? That's grand
but the dog and you out for a walk ? That's grand Jaggededge
Explorer
It's been lovely here today and I've been dog sitting. We've had a great day out. Saw a kingfisher as well on the canal. Only 2nd I've ever seen.
Beachlover
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Beautiful, crisp weather at the moment.
Sunset dog walk included egrets and nicely silhouetted ponies in the dunes.
Cracking photos
The weather here yesterday was cold and bright, leaving me with no excuse but to lay the base for a shed on my new plot.
This morning is bright cold, icy and my back aches, so once the Brufen has kicked in it’s the beach with the dog, sauerkraut and lentil dahl making in the warm after that for the dog and I. I can already foresee an afternoon nap on the horizon.
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ElThomsono
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It's turned cold here again, although it hasn't rained for weeks which has been nice. I've still got a load of branches in the garden from a downed tree, and the tumble dryer was taken out the back recently and shot so I'm going to use its drum like a brazier, and imagine what it would be like to be on strike. That'll take care of Thursday night in any case.
Woody Girl
Happy Camper
Sunshine, and blue sky...cold tho.
Jaggededge
Explorer
Nice day but not as sunny as yesterday. Just spent a couple of hours tidying the garden. I've had enough now. Birds are happily searching the areas I've done.
MaC
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I don't know where they found the money, but S. Lanarkshire Council are re-doing our footpaths 
There's a hole outside my front gate that totals about a metre of damaged tarmac, I jest you not, they sent a wee man round with a bucket of cement to fill and level it. I looked at that, and the wee man looked at me and said, "I'm sorry Missus, but I'm not allowed to use tarmac on the patch repairs on the paths, just the roads"....so I painted it black and was literally this past week about to go and buy the bags of tarmac repair and the big thump it down hard thing. It was the cost of the thumper that was putting me off doing the job, tbh. but Lo! and Behold! for through the letter box comes a wee notice from the Council
So, we'll see, but after 44 years it was time it was done.
M
There's a hole outside my front gate that totals about a metre of damaged tarmac, I jest you not, they sent a wee man round with a bucket of cement to fill and level it. I looked at that, and the wee man looked at me and said, "I'm sorry Missus, but I'm not allowed to use tarmac on the patch repairs on the paths, just the roads"....so I painted it black
and was literally this past week about to go and buy the bags of tarmac repair and the big thump it down hard thing. It was the cost of the thumper that was putting me off doing the job, tbh. but Lo! and Behold! for through the letter box comes a wee notice from the Council So, we'll see, but after 44 years it was time it was done.
M