Good morning everyone

Update on the weather forecast is that in Gloucester, the chance of snow has reduced over the next 2 weeks but that the forecast temperature in the second weeks is now even lower with much of the time zero or a few degrees below.

However the weather forecast site that I get the forecast for the 2 weeks one for Gloucester is based on an altitude of 75m. This is wrong for most of Gloucester. Where I live is only 15m above sea level, though the centre is around 25m. However although that may mean it's a bit warmer in Gloucester than forecast, Gloucester is not representative as it is effectively a coastal city.

If you want to explore your area from an altitude (& other things) to exactly where you live, explore this site  It also has a satellite map which is sufficiently detailed so that you can see your own house from above, though I can tell that it is not upto date as it shows my house before the flat roof work was done. And this site covers the whole world. It doesn't replace Google Maps, but is worth exploring.

Good morning everyone, thanks for that link EL, I duly went in and found my house, it looks very different from a satellite

Good morning  Swithering about going into town, but very rainy and miserable. so i may just have a day in

Good afternoon Skylark

Swithering is a nice word.  I hadn't come across it before so looked it up, and of course it is Scottish. I think it's the equivalent of dithering,

Never gave it a thought El , and didnt realise it was a Scottish word . Anyway after swithering and dithering i have decided to stay in  

Good call Skylark staying in is the new going out doncha know

Neither did I, Skylark. We're a pair of dunderheids.

Ha ha!   I sat with my feet up and watched Goodnight Mister Tom, for about the 5th time, but still had a sniffle at the end

Aye we are that aw right  El will be off Googling dunderheid now

I loved that one too, nearly time to start watching Christmas movies!  

Yes indeed squiggle, i like the golden oldies best. I love the original Scrooge with Alex Guinness, wouldnt be Christmas without it

Strangely enough, I did not need to google dunderheid as that presumably is the Scottish equivalent of dunderhead which I've known ever since I was a wee bairn

Dinnae worry El, Yogi and i will find one to bamboozle you

I have watched this so many times and I have it on DVD, and I always cry at the end.

I've got ones of those teatowels with Scottish words on it - I might have to hunt it out.

Yogi, my late mother came from Montrose, she came out with some words i cant even spell! I was up there a few months back and spent most of my time saying, sorry, pardon....they speak at such a speed with their own words. But i just love the lilt and all the "fitting" and "fatting" and "ginging"

Try this one then at what time of the day is it dimpsey? (No cheating and googling now) its a Devon dialect word

I will go for lunchtime, squiggle , probably wrong

I'm guessing it's dusk, Squiggle.

We lived in a wee village outside Peterhead for a couple of years, and most of the time I didn't have a clue what the locals were on about.

Oh Yogi, too fast for me up there

I felt like a foreigner in my own land.

Me too sometimes! Some people say they hate the Scottish accent....I say which one?

I'm sure some people expect us all to sound like Rab C. Nesbitt.

Aye Mary doll

Gonnae no say that - just gonnae no!

I have a few DVD,s of Still Game, nothing like it if you need cheering up, Should be on the NHS

Good guess, does it resemble any similar Scottish dialect words?

I remember a clip from a dear old Aberdonian who was interviewed by a roving reporter some while back and for a while used to pop up on those TV clips shows.  The reporter listened as this fellow went on very passionately, and then turned to the camera and it was obvious that he hadn't understood a word, and neither had the viewing audience despite trying desperately to find the odd word we recognised

squiggle, dimpsey, sounds to me in Scottish lingo, someone not the full shilling , sorry

I know a few folk like that.

It was a lucky guess, Squiggle.

present company excepted ...i hope

Since moving to glorious Devon its the favourite dialect word I have come across, when the light is just starting to fade but its not yet full dark, thass bootiful that is

Ah lovely squiggle, you do live in a lovely part of the country , and its nice to have your own dialect

Of course.

I can hear you saying it.

Goodnight Squiggle and Skylark.

going to my bed and watch ITV2, feel exhausted, Nite nite

Good morning everyone

A short clip to enjoy: