News – Page 24 – The Moreton Pinkney Picayune

27 February 2022

It’s been a wild, windy, wet and wonderful week. Five storms worthy of being allocated names in about ten days – it doesn’t get much better than that. Unless, of course, one considers the “wonderful” bit – the arrival at the end of last week of Julieta.

20 February 2022

Wow – that was a “wild and stormy night.” We’ve been battered by storms over the past few days – storm Eunice arrived seemingly about thirty seconds after storm Dudley departed. At this rate they are going to run out of names soon. Lashings and lashings of rain, gale force winds – the Met Office issued a rare Red Warning – danger of loss of life from flying debris, apparently.

13 February 2022

Another week! Every week that passes we march steadily towards Spring and warmer weather. Excellent! It’s been a good week – we even had two outings!

6 February 2022

Oh, my goodness it got cold at the weekend. Friday morning, we had sleet and snippets of snow and although it’s been mainly sunny since there’s been a bitterly biting north wind. Still, temperatures have remained above freezing and for that, I suppose, we should be grateful.

30 January 2022

Another week has flown by. It’s been cloudy and grey for much of the time but the tail end of the week brought some nice sunshine and relatively decent temperatures. Today, as I glance out the window on to the Upper Green, it is sunny with blue skies and the weather people tell me that the afternoon temperature will be a perfectly acceptable 7^o C (45^o F). Thankfully, we’ve endured nothing like the -27^o Fahrenheit (-32.8^o C) my sister-in-law reported from their lovely ice box in New Hampshire the other day! Whoa – that’s cold!

23 January 2022

It’s been a good(ish) week. We had another movie night, produced one of the better examples of Greg’s Award-Winning Sourdough bread, had an excellent visit from a very old friend (i.e., she’s been a friend for a very long time, not that she is old) and experienced the joy of having an exquisitely clean oven! How exciting is that?

16 January 2022

It’s been a pretty decent week. We’ve avoided much of the fog and freezing mist which had been predicted and instead have enjoyed generally bright clear skies with frosts in the mornings. “Fresh” to be sure but not bad.

9 January 2022

Well, we’ve finally had a spot of cold weather – we awoke on Thursday morning to what is known in the trade as a “hard frost.” The landscape on the other side of the windows shimmered with a white frosting and the temperature had, allegedly, dipped to -5^o C overnight (23^o F). As I said last time, I am old enough not to miss the cold temperatures and snow but, so far, this “winter” has been very disconcerting – it was 16^o C (almost 61^o F) on New Year’s Day for goodness’ sake! We have nice summer days that don’t get that warm.

2 January 2022

And a happy New Year to you all. We did essentially the same thing we’ve done every New Year’s Eve since the millennium, I think. We were up in bed snoring long before it turned midnight in the UK. But, celebrating the new year in Antananarivo sounds much more enjoyable than revelling in Trafalgar Square or, indeed, the Upper Green, Moreton Pinkney.

26 December 2021

And a Happy Christmas to you all – I hope you had a lovely time with, preferably, families and/or friends. Although our Christmas Day was relaxed (just the two of us), we had a fabulous time with Adam, Ava and Jessie on Christmas Eve and today we are looking forward to Nick, Lucy and Annabelle as well as Adam, Ava and Jessie coming here for some more celebratory diversions. (Provided none of us test positive for Covid in the meantime and also provided the idiot currently occupying Number 10 doesn’t realise that he should have implemented restrictions long ago and decides to finally do the right thing today. On second thoughts, there’s no chance of him doing the right thing so I think we’re OK on that score).