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It did feel a bit cooler, even indoors, and the forecast looks wintry. We get rain any day but we have a "Yellow warning of snow" which is I hope different from a "Warning of yellow snow".

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I'm so glad it's not just me who thinks that!

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Virtually no snow in the countryside but it was icy enough at midday for my fingers to go numb within a couple of minutes.

I've proved one thing to myself this evening: despite what I thought, I can drive on unlit, unmarked, winding, dipping country roads at night. I didn't crash into any wildlife or go over any verges and it wasn't anything like as scary as I expected. I'd been putting this off ever since I passed my test, with a vivid memory of a really horrible drive back from Oxford that my driving instructor made me do one winter's night. That night I arrived home shaking and unable to say anything for about 20 minutes other than a litany of unprintable words.

I'm toasting some crumpets to celebrate dispensing with this boundary. Hot buttered crumpets (with Marmite) are just the thing for a frosty November night.

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We had some snow last night, and there was snow at the Heads of the Valleys road, also on the Beacons and the Blorenge.

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We had snow here at about 1am but it had all disappeared by the time I got up. S'been cold all day though, so I wouldn't be surprised if we had another wee flurry.

Went to a craft market at the Hepworth Gallery today. It was full of very nice things that I wouldn't hesitate to buy if I had unlimited cash. As it was I only left with business cards, but it had a nice just-Christmassy-enough atmosphere.

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Piglet, you didn't ask for a London meet!

It didn't really occur to me that we'd have time; I wasn't quite sure what our plans would be after the conference was finished.

Back home now to no snow (hurrah! [Yipee] ) although it did feel a bit chilly when we left London this morning, and it's currently -1°C and feeling a bit brrrr.

Bit of a bumpy flight in places - easily the worst transatlantic flight we've had (and the food was a bit rubbish). Also, the scramble you have to get to your departure gate at Terminal 2 is, not to put too fine a point on it, bloody ridiculous - they reckon it's a 15-minute walk, which suggests it must be about a mile. To add insult to breathlessness, they have posters trumpeting about how they're adding new gates so that you don't have to get a courtesy-bus - are they having a laugh? I'd infinitely prefer to get a bus than have to sprint a mile along those moving walkway thingies.

Stuff that for a lark - I hope the proposed West Jet St. John's-Gatwick flight is up and running by the next time we're pond-hopping.

Sorry - rant over now. [Big Grin]

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I spent a happy day at a Christian* puppet workshop yesterday, and came home with the most fabulous orang-utan puppet http://www.onewayuk.com/product.php?id=1000761 - the picture doesn't do him justice, mine has a much kindlier face.
Puppets are quite dear, but I got an entire carrier bag full of orange hair for £27.50 [Yipee]

People keep asking me what his name is - well, obviously, he's the Librarian!

* that's the uses the puppets are put to - I'm not convinced the puppets themselves are of any particular religion.

Mrs. S, proud owner of an alpaca puppet

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We did that walk just a few weeks ago Piglet. A less than ideal beginning to a long flight and less welcoming than many other international terminals.
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Airports are of the Devil! Our little regional one here is not as bad as some but it is still an airport and they are horrible limbo like places and they are all brightly lit with pale floors and it all just goes to confuse my already poor eyesight!

And then there's the "Duty Free" that sells things most of us don't want at just marginally below what we'd pay outside - apart from everyday stuff that is marked up about 100% once you are past Security!

...and this is all before you get on the flight 2 seats away from the screaming child with the parents who haven't a clue and the lousy food and the terrible leg room...

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quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
We did that walk just a few weeks ago Piglet. A less than ideal beginning to a long flight and less welcoming than many other international terminals.

I did it last summer. They were late posting my flight gate, so I had about ten minutes for the fifteen-minute walk.
[Frown]

(Maybe they figure that a brisk, long walk before a long flight helps with leg cramps or circulation problems or something.)

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I quite like it when they say it'll be one of a group of gates that are near by each other well in advance so you can mosey on up there before hand. It annoys me when they won't tell you anything about the gates so you waste an hour or so wandering around and then have to run for the gate... I generally turn into a zombie as soon as I get to an airport though, my brain turns to mush so I need all the big yellow signs saying 'this is the way you need to go'.
I quite like Manchester airport, when we land there's a nice cafe place that does tasty breakfast for not too atrocious a price, and when we leave there's a fairly nice bar that does snacky things near our gate! I haven't flown to London for ages but it's generally more annoying than the regional airports.
Edit: I forgot to say that I was at a GIN tasting yesterday and I now have some tasty local sloe and honey gin! Yum. Here it's not snowy, just cold (though today the sun is out)

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I like flying in and out of Birmingham, a nice relaxed airport with very friendly, helpful people. Unfortunately, my flight home from Birmingham was cancelled last summer, and I was bussed to Heathrow.
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Birmingham is pretty good. I like the airports that have train stations next to them!

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quote:
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Birmingham is pretty good. I like the airports that have train stations next to them!

That's another thing I like about Birmingham, as well as several reasonably-priced hotels just across the road.

Unfortunately, because of my plans for next summer, I'll be dealing with Heathrow again.

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It always hacks me off the way they put gates to "remote" places as far away as possible. The Orkney gate at Edinburgh airport is about as far away as you can get, and I suspect that the reasoning for the positioning of the Newfoundland one at Terminal 2 is the same (there's only a few seals/sheep/moose/whatever there, so we'll put it miles away).

It being Stir-up Sunday, we had our last hurrahs before Advent today* - Schubert in G and Exsultate justi in the morning and Harwood in A flat and O Lorde, the maker of al thing in the evening, all of which elicited much Decanal Grinning™.

* We usually do unaccompanied settings during Lent and Advent, which suits me fine, as most of them are by Tudor composers ... [Big Grin]

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Lots of pups are going into training this week, I feel for their puppy walkers - it's a sad time, we feel grief for their loss. But this message from guide dog, Slipper's, owner reminds me why we do it.

Go well lovely puppies, work hard, play well and do your puppy walkers proud!

"This is for all those puppy walkers who are feeling sad, I've just come back from a weeks holiday staying by myself with my guide dog, Slipper. She was my Friend by my side always there when I needed her, no matter where we were going - travelling on trains, to different houses to cafes and pubs, Slipper just settled down and received no end of praise for her behaviour, Slipper also coped with unfamiliar lanes with no footpath and had some lovely free-runs - all down to her early training, so huge thank you to Slipper's PW and her trainers for making it possible for me to still enjoy life."

[Smile]

I'm on pins waiting to hear from Gypsy's trainer. She is well into advanced training now and it shouldn't be too long before she's matched. Meanwhile Twiglet is growing into such a lovely young lady I don't know how I'll ever part with her!

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I tried to fly out of Birmingham from Milton Keynes a couple of times, but it never worked out [Frown]

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From here Manchester has a train station between Terminals 1 ans 2. The other alternative is Leeds/Bradford Airport, which is a bus to Bradford and then bus 747 to the airport or a train to Leeds and bus 757. I like the creative use of bus numbers.

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Things you don't often hear:

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
That's another thing I like about Birmingham...



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quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
Things you don't often hear:

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
That's another thing I like about Birmingham...


Things to like about Birmingham: it's easy to escape! (New street station is a lot better than it used to be, too)

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LeRoc

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I was in Birmingham for the first time a couple of months ago. I liked the arts museum, but found the city centre a bit sterile.

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Actually I don't mind Birmingham. Good museums and arts things, as you say, and I even admired in a way the grandeur of the vision of some of the 1960s development that has now been pulled down. Improvement of New Street station has been desperately needed for years. As a Brummie student of mine said to me years ago, 'I'll stick up for Brum- but you can have New Street Station!'

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If I forget thee O Birmingham, may my right hand forget its cunning - in exile over five years now and still miss it, though the south coast has its advantages!
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quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
Things you don't often hear:

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
That's another thing I like about Birmingham...


I was thinking the same thing when I typed that. (I should have specified Birmingham Airport.)

I agree with the improvements to Birmingham New Street station, but it's still crazy.

As far as Birmingham Cathedral... well, the less said the better.

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As far as I can recall, I've only been to Birmingham once, and that was just to the airport, about which I can remember absolutely nothing. We were going to a wedding in Bridgenorth in Shropshire, and IIRC we flew in to Birmingham and back from Liverpool (where we had time to have a look in the Anglican cathedral, which is huge).

What struck us was how utterly gorgeous the countryside between the two cities was, and that neither was anything like as horrid as we'd imagined it would be.

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Why would you imagine that the countryside anywhere in the UK was horrid. We still have a green and pleasant land. It is the cities that have the eyesores. (City of London, I mean you).

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quote:
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Why would you imagine that the countryside anywhere in the UK was horrid.

I would cite the Downs Link path in Sussex. It runs along an old railway line (one of the Beeching cuts), but is lined with bushes and trees all the way along. So it's flat and you end up with tunnel vision, as you can't see any vistas. Apart from the little oasis that is West Grinstead, it's an utterly uninspiring walk.

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Fair point, Balaam - I didn't put that very well. I think it hadn't occurred to us that there was any pretty countryside around there - that even outside the main conurbations, it would be a sort of suburban, industrial sprawl, which it absolutely wasn't.

I don't know that the City of London's really that bad - we were there last week (right in the official "City" bit) and it was quite impressive (apart from the fact that to start with it was p*ssing with rain).

I'm an unashamed townie, and while I'm not sure that I'd want to live in London (even if I could afford it), I do love going there once in a while and being part of that vibrant atmosphere (even if I feel I want to wash it off my face afterwards).

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I have been absent from here for a few weeks - life has been Happening, but I seem to have come through the worst of it (fingers crossed), and it's been good to catch up with the past few pages.

At school, I have this feeling of calm before the storm: I reckon we've got another 10 days or so of good teaching time before the Christmas madness hits. I do enjoy it, but it's still madness!

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Aaah! But down here Christmas means holidays, six lovely weeks. State schools break up a few days before Christmas and many private schools take an extra week. For primary schools the wind down has well and truly started. Swimming schools for many with lessons for a couple of hours every day for several weeks, plus time for transport there and back. The Schools Spectacular is on in Sydney with several days rehearsals and three, I think, peformances. Schools come from all over the state and it is a truly professional performance from thousands of pupils.

Christmas means holidays, even for workers too. Depending on the days there are several public holidays. Government workers often have a day slotted in for August Bank holiday which disappeared from August due to public uproar and quietly reappeared at Christmas. Banks still observe the traditional date. With a bit of luck there may be only a couple of days left before New Year weekend and a decent time off can be had with just a couple of days of due holiday time being used. And it is summer.

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Lothorien, that seems to be a good reason to commute from Australia to England and back again every six months. Perpetual warmth and summer! Though if its a traditional English summer we could still feel a wet chill!

Yesterday was a filthy day - pouring with rain all day and so dark I had to have the lights on all day. "Black as Newgate's knocker" as my mother-in-law used to say!

Today looks slightly better. I live in hope. [Smile]

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quote:
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...Perpetual warmth and summer!...

That's what I love about living here - when I mentioned moving here many people said that I'd miss the winter...

...I'm still waiting!

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Not even one crispy day, with blue sky, bright sunshine, a splash of frost in the morning, a walk around crunchy woods, and home for a hot chocolate?

(If winters were reliably like this, I'd be even more of a winter person than I am.)

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Hehe, I liked seeing autumn in Britain, but I'm also happy that I'll be in Africa and Brazil for the next 6–7 weeks [Smile]

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quote:
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Not even one crispy day, with blue sky, bright sunshine, a splash of frost in the morning, a walk around crunchy woods, and home for a hot chocolate?
(If winters were reliably like this, I'd be even more of a winter person than I am.)

Winters in Heidelberg are like that - very cold, bright and clear. They get some fog/mist but not the incessant rain. Summers are mostly nice and hot (25-35 degrees) and sunny. I envy my son!

We have had rain for a month now. My best friend has had floods downstairs [Frown]

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It's rather cool (1°C) this morning, and we had a few tiny flakes of sn*w on the way to w*rk, but as long as it doesn't lie, I'll be happy enough.

Socks have been donned*, but I've yet to get my winter coat out.

* as it's forecast to be 10°C on Saturday, they may well get un-donned again ... [Big Grin]

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I love Indian-isms! This morning I took my bike down to the local bike repairing man, I can no longer use it because of recalcitrant knees but want to lend it to my friend V for a while so I wanted it... erm... something-ed. The bike repair man and I had an earnest discussion about what I wanted doing but as he doesn't really speak English and I speak even less Malayalam it was interesting. He eventually hit on the word check-up-ing and it seemed close enough to me.

So my bike is in for check-up-ing and I collect it at six this evening.

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I hope it returns in good health. [Smile]

We now have some actual sn*w - there was enough to leave a rather pretty dusting of white on the roads by the time I went to bed last night. If that were all we were going to get, I'd be well pleased ... [Paranoid]

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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
So my bike is in for check-up-ing and I collect it at six this evening.

Assuming it doesn't get nabbed by a scallywag.
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What happened to the brilliant sun that was shining through my sitting-room window while I was eating my breakfast (and illuminating the cat's nose-prints thereon and the fact that I can't remember the Iast time cleaned the window)?

It is now chill and overcast, and I might have to go and find my new fleece jacket!

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You're supposed to clean windows? [Eek!]

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A few weeks ago I was moaning on here about cleaning mirrors and I see they are due again already! Windows will take more contemplation.

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Thinking about it winter is not a good time for cleaning windows, now is it? Perhaps I'll worry about it again in the summer - but it will be raining then...

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Rain is just God doing your window-cleaning for you. [Big Grin]

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And once again I find myself trumpeting the virtues of employing a cleaner. [Big Grin]

I shall arrive home tonight and the apartment will be spotless as by a miracle. Including all the stuff that no one ever cleans regularly if they’re responsible for their own domestic hygiene, like the windows, the oven and the inside of the cupboards.

As an added bonus, to thank you for contributing to the economy and providing someone with a job, the government gives you a tax break. What’s not to like?

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I am very grateful that it's Friday [Smile] Especially as I have survived the school Christmas Fayre - that's now church and school fairs done, which seems a bit daft when it's not even December, but such is life!

Time to relax for a few hours before cracking on with more work tomorrow.

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We got our first Christmas card - from my cousin - this morning.

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quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
And once again I find myself trumpeting the virtues of employing a cleaner. [Big Grin]

Oh yes!

I had a cleaner all my working life - well, well worth the cost!

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My parents had a cleaner when I was a kid. Not a terribly good cleaner, I think, but the great thing was that it did make you tidy up in preparation for her visits.
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