What’s on your mind?

[rm5]

Finally, it’s snowing, and it’s here to stay! We have about 14 inches here after it started snowing yesterday. The only bad part of it is that the temperature might rise above freezing, which might turn into ice when it freezes again.

14 inches?! Ridiculous! I was shocked by the 2 inches we got the other day.

 

[rm5]

A miserable day, cold and wet and dreary and dark.

Here, the wind is just crazy. Luckily it isn't very cold.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Here, the wind is just crazy. Luckily it isn't very cold.

Good, I'm glad to hear it.

However, you are in a part of your country where winters are long, and cold, and the snow lies long and deep.

Anyway, my electric blanket is on, I am sipping a glass of wine, I have written my (detailed) thoughts on Independence Square (the latest book in the Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith) in the books thread, and now, some music calls.

 

[MmkLucario]

Here, the wind is just crazy. Luckily it isn't very cold.

Wind chill isn’t very fun when it’s cold, especially when it’s dark.

 

[Mylodon]

Good, I'm glad to hear it.

However, you are in a part of your country where winters are long, and cold, and the snow lies long and deep.

Anyway, my electric blanket is on, I am sipping a glass of wine, I have written my (detailed) thoughts on Independence Square (the latest book in the Arkady Renko series by Martin Cruz Smith) in the books thread, and now, some music calls.

Haha, I have to say, wine and music are the best partners of reading.

 

[Mylodon]

Yes but I don’t have to worry about being punched by a kangaroo, have a kola drop on here from above or get chased by spiders the size of dinner plates!

I heard that kangaroos have trained a group of good boxers in Australia.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Here, the wind is just crazy. Luckily it isn't very cold.

Agree with @MmkLucario that the wind chill factor - which you will undoubtedly experience over the coming months - is no joke.

Wrap up well.

 

[Apple fanboy]

So glad it’s Friday. Crap day at work. Actually crap week. Will try (and fail) to put it out of my mind until Monday.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

So glad it’s Friday. Crap day at work. Actually crap week. Will try (and fail) to put it out of my mind until Monday.

Well, try to enjoy the week-end.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well, try to enjoy the week-end.

Will try. Weather isn’t likely to help much. Wish it was summer already. I hate this time of year.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Will try. Weather isn’t likely to help much.

Agreed.

Wish it was summer already.

And again, agreed.

A hearty and heartfelt - a profoundly passionate - amen to that sentiment.

I hate this time of year.

And amen, again.

Agreed.

Personally, I loathe, detest, absolutely abominate, and yes - hate - this time of year, also.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Wish it was summer already.

Actually, I would rest content - quite simply yet quite happily content - if it were spring.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Actually, I would rest content - quite simply - if it were spring.

I could be happy with that. The wind today on our walk was brutal. But every now and then the wind would drop and the sun was shining. It was nice then. The rest of the walk not so much.

 

[jdoll021]

Just back from a walk as the rain has finally stopped. It’s just as well we didn’t go any later. Already getting dark (no street lights or curbs in the country ). Mind you it never really got light today.

Do you get to see stars at night? Or is it too cloudy?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Do you get to see stars at night? Or is it too cloudy?

When it’s not cloudy we sure do. A lack of street lights really helps.

 

[jdoll021]

Replacing the monarch in such circumstances - even by violent means - such as by way of execution, or assassination - is not usually sufficient to bring about fundamental change.

Worked for the French. Of course, the French revolutionaries had greater numbers on their side than Fawkes.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Worked for the French. Of course, the French revolutionaries had greater numbers on their side than Fawkes.

Bear in mind that they (the French revolutionary government) did go through the motions of putting him (and his lady wife) on trial, - before their subsequent respective executions - and yes, I think that we can assume that the verdict was pretty much a foregone conclusion - much as the English had done earlier in 1649 with Charles I (who challenged the legitimacy of the court - citing the divine right of kings - and its right to try him; I've read the transcript - it is fascinating).

A much better solution all round, methinks.

 

[Clix Pix]

Yesterday was warm enough here that I could have windows and the sliding glass door open. Lovely! Today, I found that overnight the weather did a big flipflop and it is a mere 44° and raining, to boot! UGH!!!! Ah, fickle November.....

 

[Chuckeee]

I finally know summer is finally gone, I’ve now drunk my afternoon coffee hot, instead of iced, for a whole week! For the record, mornings coffee is always hot.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I finally know summer is finally gone, I’ve now drunk my afternoon coffee hot, instead of iced, for a whole week!

Alas, summer is well gone, so far gone that even the dissolving memory has disappeared in the rear view mirror of the mind.

For the record, mornings coffee is always hot.

Always hot, always, in the morning.

A piping hot coffee (and a piping hot shower) are non negotiable in the mornings of my life.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My electric blanket is summoning me.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Beer, books, blanket (electric, switched on) and music (and yes, MR), keeping me company on a Friday night.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I think that T.S. Elliot covered this --

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimneypots,

 

[Macky-Mac]

all this talk of cold weather has me wondering when I'll have to start wearing long pants and a long sleeve shirt when I go outside for a walk

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Do you get to see stars at night? Or is it too cloudy?

Sometimes.

Not often, but occasionally.