Snow

[Blizzard]

Looks like we'll be getting our first snow next week. I'ts forecast for Wed, Thurs & Fri. Just showers so hopefully it won't be much.

The Cairngorms have already had some but this looks like it'll be falling at much lower levels. What joy.... NOT!

Fingers crossed we don't get such a severe winter this year.

[Deb London]

Hope you are all stocked up for the whatever the winter is about to throw at you, Blizzard. Fingers crossed for you.

We get our own version of snow chaos in London. I've never seen anything like it. Thankfully the snow and disruption is a rare event. I have to get into work some days, there is no option for me, and only death would be a good excuse. I have a number of measures in place now, and appropriate snow wear, so the walk is more bearable. It's a challenge though, and I get lots of brownie points.

[Cordaline]

I thought my Ex was winding me up when he told me snow was coming next week!
Is it forecast for down south aswell?

[Susie]

No, it won't reach as far as us. It's going to be jolly chilly on Wednesday though.

[artdemole]

Sun on Wednesday, But down to 0c at night.Be good for star gazing.

[Blizzard]

Originally Posted by Deb London

Hope you are all stocked up for the whatever the winter is about to throw at you, Blizzard. Fingers crossed for you.

Haven't done the big winter stock up yet but this is an early warning for me to do just that! I don't want to be scrabbling about in the freezer looking for something to eat on Christmas day again lol.

Originally Posted by Deb London

We get our own version of snow chaos in London. I've never seen anything like it. Thankfully the snow and disruption is a rare event. I have to get into work some days, there is no option for me, and only death would be a good excuse. I have a number of measures in place now, and appropriate snow wear, so the walk is more bearable. It's a challenge though, and I get lots of brownie points.

I reckon you'd get away with being snow bound up here without having to die . One of my joys is watching the south on tv struggling with a couple of inches .

What is your job? Don't answer if you'd rather not. I don't like giving too much away on public forums.

[Blizzard]

Originally Posted by Cordaline

I thought my Ex was winding me up when he told me snow was coming next week!
Is it forecast for down south aswell?

No, you'll be fine, it's just Scotland and not all of Scotland at that.

If we do get any I'll post a photo of it on here.

[Farplace]

We get a lot of snow here in the Pennines too. Last year we had 6foot deep drifts. I wrote this. It's called SNOW. Hope you like it.

She called to me. Patterning my dreams and colouring my visions with a pureness of purpose, waking me in the darkness like a lovers’ soft embrace. She touched me; kissed me with icicle lips and I was bound to follow, willing as a puppy.

Softly, softly in the crystal darkness, she clothed the naked ground. Gently persuasive, she imposed her iron will upon the meadows and the moors, transforming them from dark unwelcoming mud-scapes to a wonderland of silver-white brightness.

Betrayer of fox and cheater of hare, she cloaked their highways and their secret leys, revealing their foot prints for all to see. I watched her dancing on the wings of the storm, a ballet of seduction, bidding the unwary to follow deep into the night to the Halls of Faye, the Realms of OtherWorld …. And although I was conscious of her trickery, still I followed.

Tonight I shall sing the Song of the North with the Choir of Odin. A Song of the Old Times, conceived by Ice and fathered by Aurora, renewed again on this Sacred night.

We gathered in the Ice Caverns of Imlec, a hundred thousand strong. Each one of us drawn by the tantalising majesty of her jewelled beauty. We sang of death, of ice cold surrender, a stilling of the pulse and a cooling of the blood…. We sang of the storm-raged sky and the snow-ravaged wilderness. The Hawk on the wing and the Fox in her lair. Then we sang a new Song…. A melody of life, of birth, of hope for the future of this fragile planet, for this time of death will pass…

I woke in the deep fresh glory of a winter’s morning. Snow, deep and drifting, pure and unsullied, carpeted the landscape as far as I could see. Sheer, unspoiled beauty. But the Kiss of the Ice Queen still lingered on my lips and I knew fresh truths…. There is old memory in the snow.

[Blizzard]

Originally Posted by artdemole

Sun on Wednesday, But down to 0c at night.Be good for star gazing.

Now that is one of the great advantages I get living here. No light pollution! Well very little anyway.

[brendaward]

Beautiful. Don' stop writing.