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Jack the Lass
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It's been lovely, such a shame to have to go to work! Yes, Aberdeenshire broke the all-time March temperature record today (the previous record was set yesterday).
A couple of days ago on blipfoto there were some absolutely cracking haar photos. We're enough inland that it's dispersed before it reaches us, luckily.
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North East Quine
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Yes, it was glorious here in Aberdeenshire, though I gather it was hotter further inland.
I overheard one woman remarking that the past week had been like summer "except summer doesn't usually last this long."
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cattyish
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The hairy dog was pretty much cooked as we walked around Fyvie Estate today. I was out in a strappy top, and I was roasting!
Cattyish, sunscreen out already.
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daisymay
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It doesn't seem to be summery now! What do you think of these pictures? Taken early in the morning? Snow!
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Welease Woderwick
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joan knox
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there I was with pal strolling along Portobello Prom on Sunday, watching children splash in the sea, seeing the occasional smoke from a beachside barbie. Such a different story as I struggled through the sleet and high winds into the burgh today firmly wrapped up and be-gloved... brrrr!!
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Cottontail
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Gotta love Scotland. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
(Substitute snow flakes for the hearts, and that is where we're at out my window right now.)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A week on from Cottontail's post, and guess what is still falling past the windows...
It's a day that would win prizes for vileness, even in December: in well-into-April, it is just Wrong.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Yes, I've just had a message from one of my friends (we were at school together in Blairgowrie) who lives in Edinburgh now, that she dislikes the "snow" today...
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joan knox
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No snow over here in Cumbrae where I am currently ensconced for the week... but 'tis cold.
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ken
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Do they still paint the rocks to look like crocodiles?
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Piglet
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I don't understand the kind of weather we're getting - it's not just on your side of the Pond. On Palm Sunday we had snow, and today, just over a week later, it was 14°C (the average temp. at this time of year in St. John's is 5°C). Further west it's been even sillier; on the prairies they were having temperatures in the high 20s a couple of weeks ago, and by last week they had over a foot of snow.
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busyknitter
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
Do they still paint the rocks to look like crocodiles?
Confirmed crocodile sightings only last summer!
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Jack the Lass
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Originally posted by ken:
Do they still paint the rocks to look like crocodiles?
They certainly do!
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Originally posted by busyknitter:
And another piccie
(ps, that's mine and Ken's Mum, her first visit to the rock in over 70 years).
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I don't think it can be 70 cos I think I remember going there once when I was a kid, so I'm sure Mum must have been there. Could be going on fifty years though...
I spent two weeks there in 2001 or so, on a Marine Microbiology course. If you think the big creatures look scary you should see the small ones!
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busyknitter
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Nope, I checked with Mum. You are remembering a trip to Dunoon when you were 3 (so I wasn't even on the scene).
Before last year's visit she hadn't been to Millport since 1939.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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And what is the weather like today? It looked bad on the news - loads of rain? Any snow apart from the mountains?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Not as wet as forecast today (but there's always tomorrow). What peeves me is the cold - bar that one freakish week in March, it's been around 10C at best, and frequently just a few degrees above freezing overnight. I'm fed up of socks and jumpers and cardies and fleeces.
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Piglet
Islander
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Busyknitter, are you the Family Date Rememberer? I recall once my sister and my dad phoning me to settle an argument about what year the family went to Cornwall for a holiday. I said I understood it was 1959, but as I hadn't been born at the time I couldn't be absolutely sure ...
We're heading to Irn-bru land this weekend (sadly, it's for my mum's funeral), but going to Orkney is always a Good Thing, even when it's for a Bad Reason.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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May it go well in your sadness, and those of others too.
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kingsfold
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Well, I have to say, it's blowing an absolute hoolie here, and there's been a fair amount of water falling out of the sky. Clearly normal service has been resumed.
How are the rest of you doing?
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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I managed to have the washing out for an hour today before the grey clouds made me too nervous. Of course, since bringing it in it hasn't rained once.
We're OK, enjoying Stirling, and I start my new job in Edinburgh next week (eek).
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jedijudy
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Hello Scotland!
I thought y'all might like to see some of your own at the Scotland-Florida mini meet!
See ya later!
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Piglet
Islander
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We had mostly not bad weather at all while we were in Scotland, although our ferry back from Orkney was delayed by five hours through a combination of high-ish winds and a buggered bow-thruster. However, that delay meant we discovered a really good eatery called the Shandwick Inn just off the A9 not far from Tain. If you're ever travelling that way and find you're hungry, it's what the restaurant guides would describe as "worth a detour".
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Piglet
Islander
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Sorry for double-post, but having thought about it, that restaurant doesn't really need a detour - you take the turning on the main A9 for Logie Easter Church.
That sign puzzles me: I wonder what it is for the other 364 days of the year?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by piglet:
Sorry for double-post, but having thought about it, that restaurant doesn't really need a detour - you take the turning on the main A9 for Logie Easter Church.
That sign puzzles me: I wonder what it is for the other 364 days of the year?
I assume the name is about the location of Logie rather than the festival. Somewhere in the other direction there may be a Wester Logie.
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Piglet
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Sorry - I was being facetious ...
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Welease Woderwick
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How very out of character!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by piglet:
Sorry - I was being facetious ...
And I was being pedantic (I can be, you know).
1 May marginally less grim weatherwise than 30 April. I haven't been out betimes to see any Beltane stragglers coming home from Calton Hill. They'll have needed the fires (and the pagan woolly underwear).
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Beautiful day here, first lovely day in ages.
Skipped out onto our lawn to wash my face in the May Dew this morning, then remembered about the moss killer I'd put down on Sunday.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Skipped out onto our lawn to wash my face in the May Dew this morning, then remembered about the moss killer I'd put down on Sunday.
Is there something special about May Dew?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Before the advent of modern cosmetics, it was your one hope of a successful skin care regime ( other than painting your face with white lead).
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Piglet
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In Kirkwall the tradition is to climb Wideford Hill, which is a couple of miles outside the town, and wash your face in the May dew to make you beautiful. I've never done it (although D. has); an old school friend of mine said on Facebook today that she'd done it for the first time in her life. Maybe now she's turned 50 she reckons she needs it, but I saw her last week and she looked just fine ...
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Cottontail
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Here in the Burgh, one is supposed to climb Arthur's Seat on May morning to wash one's face in the dew. I've never done it, but my mother did when she was a student here in the 1960s, and she looks fabulous at 68.
In defiance of David Hume, I thereby infer cause-and-effect, and conclude that there is something magical in the May-dew.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Originally posted by piglet:
In Kirkwall the tradition is to climb Wideford Hill, which is a couple of miles outside the town, and wash your face in the May dew to make you beautiful. I've never done it (although D. has); an old school friend of mine said on Facebook today that she'd done it for the first time in her life. Maybe now she's turned 50 she reckons she needs it, but I saw her last week and she looked just fine ...
When I was at school a youngster, I always went up the hill, mini-mountain, where we lived and washed my face on the 1st May - and then I'd take some special flowers to my mother - I can't remember which ones, but some were ones we never took indoors, something about them always living in the outdoors, by farms etc.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I've always washed my face in the May Dew, (I need all the help I can get!) but I've never gone further than my back garden to do so.
I used to give my daughter's face a quick swipe with a dew-wetted hanky as well, but she's a teen and ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) about it these days.
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Jack the Lass
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Moo, I believe it's specifically related to the festival of Beltane.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Yesterday was sunny! And warm! Spent the whole day trying to catch up on a Springsworth of gardening (and I have the terminal exhaustion to prove it).
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Hailstones yesterday, snow today. However, since the snow stopped, the grey clouds have vanished and the sky is a glorious clear blue.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Another (!) sunny day - but temperature still in single figures. Gardened until I reached my puggle threshhold - which sets in after one vegetable bed and a couple of border plants.
However, that is more than 50% of the patch planted up.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I got the grass cut, but was then sent fleeing indoors by large hailstones stotting down.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
... my puggle threshhold ... sets in after one vegetable bed ...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) I reckon mine would set in after one vegetable ...
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Firenze
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On the strength of early sunshine, girding myself for another spell of digging when stuff starting coming down that was indisputably sleet.
May glut the gardening instinct by going out and buying plastic chairs instead.
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Lothlorien
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May glut the gardening instinct by going out and buying plastic chairs instead.
How about a beautifully bound notebook from a nursery etc which sells gift items. Then you can plan your garden to your heart's content and make lots of lists re jobs to be done and plants to be bought etc. All inside out of the sleet and wind.
That should glut the gardening instinct and give pleasure to the eye and hand.
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Cottontail
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Here, it snowed.
Briefly, admittedly. But snow nevertheless.
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Arethosemyfeet
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Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Foolishly cycled to church this morning with a jumper not a coat. It rained on the way home ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
I cycled with neither coat nor jumper, as we had yet another morning of glorious sunshine. The wind was little cool, but once I'm moving I don't notice it.
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