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19 December 2021

It’s been a quiet almost serene week – I guess we must be between storms. Do start sending in your suggestions as to what the next storm should be called – it needs to begin with “C” after Storms Arwen and Barra.

12 December 2021

It’s been a pretty good week, in spite of the best Storm Barra could throw at us. Again, it mostly hammered the north and west of the country but we also had lashings of rain and gusty winds. I wonder if there’s anything in this Climate Change stuff? We’ve had two major storms in just over two weeks – Storm Arwen and now Storm Barra. At this rate they’re going to run out of letters of the alphabet by about next June.

5 December 2021

It’s been a week. Just imagine that! We had a few days away at the end of the previous week and have spent most of the rest of the time trying to keep warm. My goodness it’s been cold!

28 November 2021

Short but sweet this week. Well, if not sweet it certainly is short. We’ll blame it on the shortened Thanksgiving work week, even if we don’t participate.

21 November 2021

It’s been a tolerably tolerable week, the highlight being a trip out to the big city to see a production of the Mirror and the Light by the RSC. We’re also out on another cultural outing later today – a trip to the Birmingham Hippodrome for a production of the Nutcracker with Adam, Ava and Jessie. What sophisticates we must be!

14 November 2021

It’s been increasingly autumnal although still unseasonably warm – must be all the hot air in Glasgow talking about climate change while making vague commitments to do something, sometime, maybe. Or maybe not. The weather people are predicting the onset of a deep freeze due, apparently, sometime next week with the usual apocalyptic predictions of sub-arctic temperatures and 83 feet of snow. We’ll see.

7 November 2021

It’s been another week – what are the chances of that? I think the weather has finished its transition from late-summer/early-autumn to definitely autumn. Leaves are falling and/or have fallen off the trees, the temperature is decidedly autumnal with the occasional ground frost in the mornings and the clocks have changed so that it’s dark by 5.30 in the evening. One just wants to hunker down in front of a blazing fire.

31 October 2021

Well, it’s been a week – doesn’t time fly when you are enjoying yourselves. We’ve been busier than a one-armed paper hanger, it seems, even though we’re both retired and at least one of us (i.e., me) makes every effort to do as little as possible.

24 October 2021

Well, it’s been a wild and wacky week. Lots of cloud and grey skies at the beginning of the week with gale force winds and torrential downpours (thankfully, mainly at night) but with abnormally high temperatures for the time of year (mid 60s Fahrenheit, 18 Celsius) and lots of humidity. By about Thursday, however, the wind changed direction and the temperatures plummeted. We’ve had lots of bright blue skies, lots of wind and “freezing” temperatures (it’s all relative, after all).

17 October 2021

I guess it’s true, there’s no point trying to deny it any longer – Autumn is on the way. The nights are drawing in, the leaves are turning and the mornings seem increasingly misty with an Autumnal feel. Mustn’t complain, really – the temperature is still very tolerable for the time of year but it’s all downhill from here, I’m afraid.