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  1. Doghouse Riley

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    First real "snow," we've had for a decade. But it's already melting.

    A lot of snow on the top of the bamboo at the bottom of the garden.

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    I shook the snow off the mimosa blooms, just in case it was still on tonight and it froze.

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    It didn't last long on the bit of the path where it is over the supply and return pipes of the pool for the filter in its room in the garage. The filter pump, UV and air pump generate a little heat which makes the difference in an otherwise unheated system. The koi overwinter in the corner of the pool 5ft down under the filter return.

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      Wow.! Really looking picturesque there.. Nosnow here just very very hard frost.! Well so far.!! :noidea:Who knows what could come later but now beautiful sunshine no wind to speak of and blue blue sky @Doghouse Riley ! :spinning:
       
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      No snow here. Heavy rain overnight and very cold start but clear and bright now. The calm before the storm, maybe?

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      We had nearly an inch of snow overnight. It settled on the grass, plants and trees but not on the patio or driveway. When I went to use the car the snow had frozen solid and I had trouble opening the car. I turned everything on in the car and left it for 10 minutes. This left the car nice and warm and cosy and it was then easy to push the snow and ice off. Probably didn't do too much for the environment! :dunno:
       
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        We had nearly an inch last night . No problems on the roads in this area . Although they did close the schools ! We went to school snow , fog , ice or whatever .
         
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          Almost knee deep in snow was considered a fun way of going to school but the fog was another thing!

          I still remember the thick pea souper fogs known as the London Particular, a name for the very thick fogs in Victorian times. We still had to go to school although we couldn't see our feet because the fog was so thick. We lived near a bus depot and they brought the buses back in with a man walking in front of the bus holding a flaming brand. :rolleyespink:

          These photos only give a hint of how bad it was.

          Pea souper that killed 12,000: So black you couldn't see the screen in cinemas. So suffocatingly lethal they ran out of coffins. How the Great Smog choked London 60 years ago this week | Daily Mail Online
           
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          • Doghouse Riley

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            I can remember all that. I was working at my first job on leaving school in an office at the top end of Regent Street. Fortunately living at the Southern end of the Northern Line, it didn't stop me getting into and home from work.

            Going!

            Shows what a slight rise in temperature and a bit of sun can do.

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            The mimosa is free of snow now and it's disappearing from the patio.


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              Me too! My last year I had to trudge through the snow of 1962/63! :hate-shocked:
               
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                No snow here at all although its forecast -4 tonight so I'll be wrapping a few plants up soon
                 
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                I was just round the corner. My first job was next door to Bourne and Hollingsworth

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                  I missed most of that. I was in the Merchant Navy at that time and sailed for South Africa just as the snow started on December 10th. :phew:
                   
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                  Our office was up near the BBC.

                  In the basement was Edmundo Ros's club. It had a separate entrance. He had an office near the top of the building.
                  When we teenagers were coming back from lunch, we'd call the lift to go to the second floor and when it came up from the basement, he'd often be in it accompanied by some or other, tall, exotic looking "well built" Latin female, probably on their way to his office for him to "interview her." He was very friendly. The gents washroom was on our floor and we'd often bump into him in there at lunch time and we'd chat about football or cricket or whatever took our fancy.

                  There was a TV documentary on him last year and it showed him standing opposite his old club. You couldn't see much as the ground floor of the building had boarding in front of it as it was being renovated.
                  We got paid by cheque in those days and the nearest, (also the firm's) bank was Barclays, about the same distance from our office as it was from Broadcasting House. You could be in the same queue in the bank as some well known people. A couple of times at least, Shirley Bassey had been either in front or behind me, at a teller's window.
                   
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