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Snowmen!

What a great winter – the snow continues!

Wonderful Weather Words

The WeatherOnline website continues to make us laugh with their delightful descriptions of British weather…the chap, Simon Keeling, who writes their ‘month ahead’ forecast makes you feel sunny even if the weather isn’t:
“If someone finds the ‘barbeque summer’ would they kindly return it?
If you are still waiting to fire up the barbeque you may have [...]

Climate Changed – Our Big Freeze

This past week has been phenomenal in terms of disruption, snowfall, ice, and fun.
It started last Monday with a huge snowfall, a closed school and all of us staying in the town – taking ‘holiday’ from work.
The holiday continued on Tuesday with the snow turning into ice and still no school, or work.  Our local [...]

UK Snow Day

A fair portion of the UK got blanketed in snow today.   Katya, who left at 6:45am turned around in Winchester and came home — good thing, too because Tolii’s school was closed officially at 8am.  I woke up at 7am and saw what appeared to be Canada out of our bedroom window – I rang [...]

Katya returns from a Hole in the Woods

Katya just returned today from her conference at the (best in the world) oceanography centre in Woods Hole, MA, USA.
She arrived there last Tuesday, just a day or two before another plane decided to turn into a boat in New York (the airplane’s manufacturer is renaming themself AirBoat).
The place, Katya says, is very cute (“its [...]