Loading tweets...I know it’s a bit early to be talking about winter – the council hasn’t even got the Christmas lights up in town yet! But let’s face it, unless Mother Nature has some sort of miracle up her sleeve, this summer is going to have been a wash-out. An Indian summer might just rescue it …
Tag Archive: weather
Oct 06 2008
Howgills: The Calf
The weather in the Lakes looked particularly bad this weekend, so I decided to head for the Howgills instead. Not too far from the Eastern Fells, the Howgills are the sweeping green giants you see from the M6 motorway, on the right if you’re travelling North. The ones that most people think are actually the …
Oct 06 2008
Winter arrives in Cheshire
I had to scrape ice off the windscreen of the car this morning. The first indication, for me at least, that winter is almost upon us. Inside the car, the temperature gauge read 2 degrees, not exactly Siberian, but certainly an indicator that summer is long gone. Summer this year of course was more of …
Aug 01 2008
Lazy week
Well I’ve been a right lazy sod this week! I’ve been away from home all week on a training course and that’s enough to sap anyone’s motivation to do things in the evening, but combined with the rather knackering day I had last Sunday on the way up Scafell Pike and you have the recipe for …
Jul 04 2008
Typical weekend weather
Why is it that the weather is great all week and then turns nasty at the weekend? Whilst sitting in the car or the house or the office at work all week it is my perception that the weather has generally been pretty good. All right it is the English summer time, so we’ve had some scattered …