Snow!

Cool! Who sings that song Don?

A guy called John Martin. The band was called The Dawntreaders. The song is called "I could eat you whole" which seemed appropriate. I went to see his current band playing on Friday night which was fun.

John and I were at college together and he worked for me for around four years till he went and got a real job. He's currently a deputy headmaster of a school in Aberdeenshire.

His wife will never forget the first time she met me.

http://misssymartin.blogspot.com/2008/05/wasp-factory.html

Ya for canadian standards it is not too bad. but like you said, for time of year, that is alot of snow!

Collecting the car turns out to have been a bad idea - it now needs a new head gasket. Arrived here on the back of a lorry at 2:10am - 7 hours after I set out.

Bloody hell mate your not having much luck with that car of yours !!

Today it feels like match in the petrol tank time....

Sounds like you need a vacation after all of the crap you've been through lately.

I hope things get better for you.

After quite some time, finally we have snow too. Nothing fancy a few cm at best but snow it is. It will be gone till morning i guess. XD

In the first week of december we registered still around 16 celsius. Now near 0 with -4 or -6 at night which is quite chilly by our usual temps. Still we lack proper winter gear more often than not.

Last year we had almost never got under 7 degrees daytime through entire december. Trend continued till end of february with a chilly 0 a few days. March went up considerably to 10 degrees and steadily up to end of april where temps were running up to 22. We usually have 8 months a year suitable for motorbike riding. For some even more. I saw one going around a good week ago when temperatures were around 8-10 celsius.

Round here the rainy season usually starts in March after the snow melts and continues till January when the snow begins. It is very unusual for us to have a lot of snow (or any) in November, let alone for it to hang around for three weeks. The last of it had just melted when another 20cm of it landed in my back garden. I've driven motorbikes on every day of the year here - from 1984-1990 my only transport was a motorbike (But 1984-86 I lived on the fringes of the Kalahari Desert which was a bit warmer).

I tried commuting to the hospital from the long-distance test range (Which is on the most often and longest blocked by snow road in the UK), a distance of about 85km each way on the bike in winter 1989. I lasted a week before moving back into town.

One well-known local author (Stuart MacBride) says the rainy season in Aberdeen begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st. This is reasonably accurate.

However, we don't get the extremes of temperature that the mainland of Europe does - the highest ever is 29.8oC and the lowest ever -18oC. The day I finally managed to get back from the frozen south, it was -16 when I got home. Three weeks ago it stayed below -10 for several days - this is very unusual. I don't ever remember it being as warm as 29.8 and I've lived here mostly since 1964. In fact I can't remember it hitting 25 for any length of time.

There is about 20cm of snow out the back just now - I'm not going to worry about it till I can't see the assistant in it. The top of her head is just over a metre from the ground. This is unlikely to happen as I've never seen that much snow here.

I would love summers not going over 29 degrees. Here we get spikes to 40 in shade! Usually 32-36 but the excessively high humidity is the main problem. It gets hard to just sit in shade not to mention any work. air conditioners are a godsend! and i'm a pure atheist.

And the snow is gone. Strangely the temp went up (by night) and snow is melting completely.

More white stuff - looks almost pretty till you realise more is landing and I've got to go out in it and work :(

After living in Hawaii for 7+ years, I actually miss the snow and Alaska. I spent almost 23 years there so it will always be a part of me. This time of year we would be setting up at my friends cabin and would go out snowmobiling every chance we got. Getting new snow is always the best time to go.

I bet you can safely consider yourself a world citizen. I'm sure you have quite some stories to tell. Unfortunately you live far from my home so the option to drive by with a 6pack to test discharge times and a snack for your assistant is quite a stretch.

Especially as I've never got farther east than Osnabrück. I must do so some day.

Man i hate snow - gotta move.

I hate cold weather, too.

Luckily I live in one of the warmest areas of the U.S., and this winter has been very mild compared to last year, for example.

I hate snow too. If I win the jackpot I step on the next plane to whatever, but outta here.
But I do NOT dig up an almost 10y old thread and wake it up from its peaceful last resting place.

EDIT: I think I will sell kitchen supplies from a tropical island. Seems there is a huge demand.

I don't necrobump very often, but it doesn't bother me when other people do it.

Can’t say I ever loved it as a kid but as a senior I definitely look at as nothing but a PITA.