Weekly Chat, Sunday December 13, 2009

All this talk of -9, -3, zero temps! Here today it is warming up, we’re expecting 30 C with 35 & 39 the next 2 days. BrendaH - you can have heaps of our sunshine!! I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a cold Christmas. We are going to sister-i-law's. Dau#2 is going elsewhere for Xmas lunch so I have asked both daus (& their appendages) to come the following Sunday for a light lunch. I just hope it is not too hot. This week our sunrise is about 6 am, sunset 8.30 pm. No point me hoping for the longest day – I know we have 2½ more months of hot weather to come <sigh>. Annette – One Xmas many many years ago I woke at 2.30 am to hear rustling and muffled giggles & squeaks. The girls had got up early to find what Father Xmas had left them. They reluctantly went back to bed.

Good evening all!  My comments will be more selective this evening – such a lot of shared thoughts and information on here today, can’t keep up with all the threads!

Alan – belated good wishes to Lady P – hope the cold will be gone for her trip to Ireland.  Could picture you trying to “persuade” Hamish out of his wooden palace in the driech weather this morning!

We had the rain after Patriciat had finished with it, so not surprised we are next getting Auntie’s freeze!

Lindybird – our post-digital problem is that we expected to receive Scottish ITV here but still can’t get it – any advice from anyone else near the Solway Coast would be welcome!!!

George G – I hope you will get some inspiration for the ladies’ gifts when you see what’s in the city shops – take care.  No potted hough for me, thanks – my mother used to make pork brawn from trotters or half a pig’s head and I hated it – not at all squeamish about where it came from, but something about the texture of the jelly!  We were planning on haggis for new year, but son is coming and I don’t think we can persuade him to eat it.

DjoanS – loved the “Gallopers” picture – couldn’t think of that name earlier in discussion, it’s just popped into my brain!

Annette – definitely silly Sunday – already onto page 5, I see!  Pleased you had better weather after yesterday’s rain.

Patriciat – well done with Tweed – sorry about Fly, and hope she’s fully fit now.

AQ – guess a cold Christmas to you is as strange as a warm Christmas to us!  Looking forward to passing shortest day is not so much to do with temperatures as light – our coldest weather is usually in January and February, but at least we can soon begin to walk about the house without having to put lights on.  Actually, mustn’t grumble – today was truly sunny here, and the light is multiplied when reflected off frost!

Aquilareen, thank you but I would find 39c far too hot. I don't mind the winter, within reason, but I would like some DRY weather with sunshine. We have had showers again today and as we drive on local roads the water is rolling off the fields as they can't absorb any more. It is sad  that I am moaning when there are parts of the world praying for rain.

As for Christmas, I was one of those children who would have been awake at 2.30am and so I  expected it when my own children did the same thing. In fact, the problem was trying to get my son to go asleep so Father Christmas could arrive.

Just realised tomorrow is Monday (yes I know it follows Sunday every week, but knowing and realising have a time lapse as I get older!).  Really hoping and praying for news of both Rothes and Mallachie this time!!!

AQ: Daughters and their "appendages"!  LOL   Tiger: Go on; fess up - it's really you isn't it and you're withdrawing from golf not because you want to spend time with your family, but because you want to hang out with Google and watch ospreys all day. George: I Googled "hough" (was that it?) this morning? Sounds good as long as it doesn't have any haggi in it.  

Never made it to gym; OH and I made the mistake of going into the garage and somehow started cleaning it out; just finished and have had my workout for the day and then some!  We work at such cross-purposes; we're hopeless! OH's idea of organizing is to move boxes from one side of the garage to another; mine is to actually open boxes, look inside and made immediate decision on potential usefulness and/or sentimental/actual value of contents and take appropriate action.  I can see I'm going to have to start spiriting things out of the garage and disposing of them around town!  :-)

Thoroughly enjoyed all the posts and links, serious and otherwise today. Stay/get well/hot/cool/dry. And congrats to certain doggie whose name I've forgotten.

Think I'll be breaking open the wine early this evening.

Hi everyone. :-)

Just switched on the laptop a wee while ago, so been sorta catching up with the posts since Iast night (the wee small hours).  Been feeling quite tired today so had a bit of a lazy one I have to admit.  Hope I'm not coming down with any seasonal ailments but am determined not to come down with anything contagious until after the New Year.  Then again I can't make any promises in this regard.

As for the weather today.  All I can say is that it fluctuates between two temperature ranges: quite cold and very cold.  It’s about -2 degrees centigrade in the greater Glasgow area at the moment so the temperature is seasonal for this part of the world.  I don’t mind this to be honest and there may be  a nice ice sculpture for me to knock out of the bird-bath before refilling it tomorrow morning. 

As for Christmas as a child.  I was one of those wee boys who’d go to bed about 9pm on Christmas Eve, give up trying to sleep round 9.30pm, then spend this next few hours trying to work out a “respectable” time to go down stairs to the living room.  If you can call half past three in the morning respectable.  ;-)

Paul. :-)

Annette not quite. I saw a promo today saying "Tiger, Who Cares?" and I was feeling particularly unloved. But then I realised it was HIM that they were talking about.

But yes it is a bit suspicious that I came back just after the "accident".

BTW how do you get the bold to work on here? Some clever HTML?