Pinchetel

Posted on March 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, day 42, Exercise, Hill, Honeywall, Hubby, Penkhull, pinchetel, Stoke-on trent, Time, Tired, Walking, Weather, wet and windyLeave a comment

Three miles walked today round the village in a city of Penkhull. Part of Stoke on Trent. To reach the village centre we decided to walk up a hill called Honeywall, past the Beehive public house and this sign erected in 2011 by the Penkhull Residents Association. Instead of continuing straight up the hill we walked down an interesting side road and then right an up to the Church of St Thomas which stands on the village green. As we walked past a flower bed we spotted these bottles decorated as bottle ovens with a top hatted figure standing next to them. Then we walked down and around Thistley Hough and finally by circuitous routes home to make sure the walk was long enough. I’ve only walked about 22 miles this week, a bit down on last week, but the weather has been wet and windy, and my hubby doesn’t want to walk to far, but I feel fitter (and tired). Day 42!

Bottle oven combination

Posted on March 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bottle oven, Canal, Landscape, multiple photos, Photos, Shelton, Stoke-on trent, Trent and mersey canal, WeatherLeave a comment

Same bottle oven, six different views, three of the oven, three reflected in the surface of the Trent and Mersey canal. Today I walked four and a half miles. We were doing mostly flat walking although there are a few uphill stretches where the locks allow water to be lowered in stages down hill, the barges float into the locks which are either emptied and the water and barge move downhill, or filled, so the barge moves up hill. We noticed a lot of debris from trees and litter was floating in the canal, the weather was so windy yesterday its blown in…

Come in cat!

Posted on March 10, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gale, Hail, Night, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Rhyme, Storm, Tuxedo cat, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Come on cat

Come on in

It’s blowing a gale

And raining hail

A storm is coming

And you’re outside

I’ve called your name

But instead you hide!

Come on in cat

Don’t be shy

There’s food here for you

Through the storm, fly

Run in now

Listen to my call

Don’t stay out

Through the heavy rain fall!

Come in

Be comfy

Stay a while

Be warm and happy

Prodigal feline in style.

Twigs

Posted on February 7, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Layout app, Life, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Storm, Trees, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Oh what patterns they make

Waving in the air

Wind sighing and soughing

Rattling the twigs,

Scudding clouds scuttling.

Crossing the moon.

Witches fingers claw the sky

Bristling branches riding high.

Each security light blinks

On and off

On and off..

Mad morse code

Storm warning

Where does snow come from?

Posted on January 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Child, Cold, Feathers, Landscape, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Weather, WhiteLeave a comment

Mummy?

Yes dear?

Is it falling feathers?

Or dandruff from god?

Is it ripped paper

White ash?

Is it magnolia petals

Or rose flowers?

Duck down

From the sky..

Could it be dessicated coconut?

I’ve never seen white flakes

Gently landing

Painting the ground

And trees

Covering the land

And houses?

Dearest

It’s Snow.

Winter used to be cold

And white.

Frozen water

Hexagonal delight.

Snow

Posted on January 2, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged beast from the East, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Snow, tin cat, Weather, Winter, yellow catLeave a comment

It came again…

Startled the cat

Turned it yellow with fright.

Another beast from the East?

That’s what they are saying.

Cold comfort

In a cold world

Well it didn’t snow!

Posted on December 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #don't like it, Annoyed, Life, Mist, New years eve, Snow, Sunshine, Weather, window view, WordPressLeave a comment

I was hoping for a new layer of snow instead we got mist. There is still a bit of lying snow but the roads and pavements are clearer. Might go for a walk later….

Apart from that WordPress has reverted to block editor again…. Clearly they don’t like us old fuddy duddies that prefer the classic version. Grr….

More snow?

Posted on December 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Fog, Forecast, Obsessed with snow, Sniw, Snowman, WeatherLeave a comment

It’s forecasting snow again tonight… Then about 7am it’s saying fog…. Maybe it will be OK for a walk, maybe not…. New year’s eve could be interesting weather-wise. Maybe if there is a big enough accumulation I might try and make a snowman!

That basket

Posted on December 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Begonias, Cold, Frost, Gardening, Hanging basket, Ice, Surviving, Tender plants, WeatherLeave a comment

I said I would post again about this hanging basket. I’m afraid the frost a couple of nights ago and minus 3.3°c put paid to the begonias, but some of the other plants are still going. Now they are covered in snow and more is forecast over the next few days…. I will see what it looks like whan it’s thawed a bit……

Low barometer

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barometer, Cold, Life, Low pressure, Millibars, New year, pressure, Snow, Snow storm, Storm warning, WeatherLeave a comment

This was probably the biggest drop in pressure that I’ve seen on my barometer I have two electric ones that measure the pressure too and they were actually reading 962 and 958! What a drop! The gold coloured marker was what the reading was twenty four hours before. Something like 22 millibars? The result was a three inch dump of snow over the Midlands and south of England and Walesby. More snow is due tonight, but probably in the East and up in Scotland. Might be fun over New Year….

Mallaband-Brown

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