smoke signals

 Sent home! Can you believe it? Lunch time it had been snowing all morning. In fact I think it has just stopped. So the decision was made in spite of there being a GCSE exam this afternoon. Of course, it's only snowing here so once you get off the hills it's just rained everywhere else. Anyway, here's some pics I took when I got home.

( Piccies this way. Bring your wellies. )

It's supposed to freeze tonight and then rain tomorrow. We'll see. Meanwhile travel chaos thanks to torrential rain elsewhere in the country.

smoke signals

 Sent home! Can you believe it? Lunch time it had been snowing all morning. In fact I think it has just stopped. So the decision was made in spite of there being a GCSE exam this afternoon. Of course, it's only snowing here so once you get off the hills it's just rained everywhere else. Anyway, here's some pics I took when I got home.

( Piccies this way. Bring your wellies. )

It's supposed to freeze tonight and then rain tomorrow. We'll see. Meanwhile travel chaos thanks to torrential rain elsewhere in the country.

drink!!

 If you remember Father Ted you'll appreciate the Subject line. Anyway, today's word promisingly is womblety-cropt. This calendar is obsessed with the effects of strong drink. Either that or our ancestors were. As you'd expect this means "The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch". We'll have none of that then.

It is also the Feast Eve of St. Vincent of Saragossa a 14th century patron saint of drunkards. He'd have his work cut out in this day and age. 

Also when you 'get in a round' that's a reference to an old drinking feast of the Scottish Isles where the men would sit round in a circle and drink themselves to stupefaction passing the cup round the circle. Two men were stationed with a barrow at the door and when anyone passed out he was put in the barrow and carted off to bed. The session could last up to 48 hours. You have to remember there wasn't much to do in the long winter nights on the Scottish Isles in those days. Sadly, the custom has now been abolished. Killjoys. 

drink!!

 If you remember Father Ted you'll appreciate the Subject line. Anyway, today's word promisingly is womblety-cropt. This calendar is obsessed with the effects of strong drink. Either that or our ancestors were. As you'd expect this means "The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch". We'll have none of that then.

It is also the Feast Eve of St. Vincent of Saragossa a 14th century patron saint of drunkards. He'd have his work cut out in this day and age. 

Also when you 'get in a round' that's a reference to an old drinking feast of the Scottish Isles where the men would sit round in a circle and drink themselves to stupefaction passing the cup round the circle. Two men were stationed with a barrow at the door and when anyone passed out he was put in the barrow and carted off to bed. The session could last up to 48 hours. You have to remember there wasn't much to do in the long winter nights on the Scottish Isles in those days. Sadly, the custom has now been abolished. Killjoys.