A chap in Hobbs Road is in the local paper complaining about the lack of a gritting bin in his road. Having had my own simlar experiences discussin grit bins with West Sussex council I have a lot of sympathy for him, but where I have to disagree is when he says it is the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Weather'
Winter wonderland
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
Lots of snow tonight. Not looking forward to the journey to work tomorrow. Most of it will be OK, but the first few hundred metres involve a hill that has never been gritted in the ten years I have lived here.
Tags: Weather
Hold the front page!
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Credit where credit is due. Having wound up the Crawley Observer a bit last month when they got caught out by events, it is only fair to comment on the way they included the story about falling masonry on the front page this week.1 Also fair to point out that the Crawley News also managed [...]
Tags: Local Papers·Weather
Phew what a scorcher
August 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I am not a big fan of hot weather as such. Unlike some people that I have known I do believe that it can be too hot: we have all known somebody who would return from holdays and insist that their holiday was better because it was 45 degrees while yours was ‘only’ 30 degrees [...]
Best job in the world
February 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Life, Work
At the risk of turning into the Horsham Today RSS feed by posting three snow-related things in a row, the end of the last post reminded me of something. It may well be an urban myth because it sounds too good to be true, but somebody at work told me about the best job in [...]
Tags: Weather
School’s Out – part two
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Still on the topic of school closures, and after reading the Guardian’s story more closely I realise that I missed the opportunity to ride one or two of my hobby horses, so let’s try again…
Not obsessed at all
February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
We Brits are sometimes accused or even stereotyped as being obsessed with the weather. Is that fair? Here are the last 15 items in the West Sussex County Times/Horsham Today RSS feed as of now: Snow set to continue (3 hrs ago) Snow scenes in villages – photos (3 hrs ago) County council gears up [...]
Tags: Local Papers·Weather
Misty Mountain Hop
October 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
It was a misty one this morning. Normally I like the way everything looks in the fog – but not when I have to drive 100 miles. We seem to get a lot of fog around here (which makes you wonder who picked it as the location for a major airport) but today it was [...]
Weather With You
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Life
I am, perhaps surprisingly, feeling quite positive about the London Olympics. It is fashionable to don the traditional British cloak of cynicism and assume they will be an unmitigated disaster: the facilities will not be finished in time, and will be crap, there will be organisational chaos, and the opening ceremony will be underwhelming and [...]
Holidays In The Sun
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Carlsberg don’t do holidays, but if they did… they wouldn’t let me anywhere near them!  The rest of the family are convinced I am jinxed when it comes to weather and holidays. They have gone off with the tent in the past, spending a few days away during school holidays while I am at work, [...]
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