Hi Skylark.
I'm not too keen on the dark background but I'm sure we'll get used to the changes, given time.

Hi Yogi, yes i am sure we will. cant quote and find it a bit "glary", its making my eyes go funny!

Skylark, when you open the Reply box there is now a quote button, have you found it yet?
El Loro has given details of how to quote ^^^^^^ up there somewhere.
I think some people on Safari and IE are still having problems but Lori is trying to sort it out.

Thanks Yogi, have been trying but its not working. I am using IE.

Hopefully Lori and Co will get it sorted soon, Skylark.

What's the snow like in your area, the east coast has been hit hard, hasn't it?

Edinburgh has come to a standstill Yogi. Schools, nurseries closed. Buses stopped running yesterday and i beleive the airport was closed for a bit. The snow is very thick and just about impossible to walk on. On the outskirts i beleive people are snowed in. It isnt cold tho, so hopefully we may have a thaw. If it freezes tonight we are all doomed

That sounds bad, Skylark.
We've got about 8 - 10 inches and it's still snowing. I've had to brush the snow from the roof of my greenhouse (as my sons keep telling me the frame will buckle under the weight of the snow.)
Last year, our village was completely cut off, it was horrible. I hope the thaw comes soon.

Oh Yogi thats a lot of snow  Its a nightmare isnt it? Going off to make a pot of soup, be back later

Snap, so am I.

And although I'm nowhere near in the position of those up North, we have had a bit of snow here in Gloucester, so I suspect the entire country is snow covered now. I did a bit of local shopping, and guess what, I came home with some Cup-a-soups in case I felt like one , so there's a definite soupy feeling going round today.

Just to let you know that as our old PMs are no longer accessible from Gagajoyjoy (though they are from Livecloud), I have created a new PM here, really for anything which we don't want others to see. It's not intended to be a substitute for Ben's Buddies.

El Loro, I have replied to your PM.  I did this using my new laptop but for some reason it won't let me post in the thread so I'm back on the old PC now!!  Obviously there must be a gremlin in the laptop, which hopefully No.1 son will be able to sort out the weekend.

As an aside the colourings of the forum look much nicer on my laptop; a nice slate blue/grey and not the dark black and white I have on my PC. 

I have sent you a reply.

Hope you are managing okay Yogi.  We have had lots of snow today but probably far less than you are having to cope with.  I've sent another PM to our little "oasis" 

And I've sent a PM as well.

I saw on television yesterday the main reason for this particularly cold weather. I said before about high pressure to the left of use forcing wind to come down from the North over us. I hadn't realised then that the reason why there is this high pressure is because of the Gulf Stream. At this time it should be coming over the Atlantic roughly from West to East so that the weather comes from the West. For some reason it has developed a kink which pushes it up North towards Greenland, then comes back down from there over us bringing the weather from the North instead of the West.

Until that kink straightens out, which it wil do some time, we are stuck with this cold weather. I have seen on an article on the BBC website about the Gulf Stream, that it has the effect of making London about 5 degrees warmer in December than it is without the Gulf Stream.

The Gulf Stream will straighten out when it wants to, but I doubt if the forecasters can forecast when, just that when it does, it will take a couple of days before we notice it.

I saw this on our local weather forecast about 10 days ago.  It looked like a giant horseshoe, it was quite fascinating but it was like having a giant fan blowing Arctic winds down upon us.

Well done El

I see from elsewhere that Seattle are trying out different backgrounds on a daily basis over the next week. At the end, they will do a poll to see which is the most popular. Somehow I on't think this one will do too well. By the way this theme is called Dark Dots. If you go to the Livecloud site, then from Your Site, select Control Panel. Then from the resulting menu on the left, select Themes. You get a choice of 14 themes which you can select for your personal site (won't have any effect over in this forum). But you can try them out to see what they look like.

Just going to use this thread to try a couple of things out x

Everything seems to be working except quotes, a lot of IE users not getting smilies but i am .Just have to be patient , i guess

Son breathing down my neck to get comp, nite all xxxxx

I'll miss you in the IAC thread, goodnight Skylark.

Just popped in to say goodnight.  Hubby took me shopping this evening so I won't need to go out for the rest of the week.  Speak to you all tomorrow. 

Good morning everyone

Not such a downbeat background here today, I wonder how many complaints there will be today about this

I must be the only one on this thread where there isn't a weather warning for the area. No fresh snow and none forecast for today here. Still very cold though. I see from the latest forecast that the temperature may start to lift a bit in the south on Saturday, though precipitation is expected - will almost certainly start as snow, turning to sleet and for squiggle rain.

Good morning El Loro.
It's still snowing up here, with even more forecast for tonight.

I prefer today's blue clours but I'm not keen on the psychedelic spots.
I hope all of the colour choices don't have the spotty background.

Good morning Yogi

I saw your post over in Feedback and I posted back that I don't think the other themes do have spots, some are plain, some have patterns. But as they can create themes, anything could happen. Yesterday I thought that one of the themes was like yesterday's apart from they used orange instead of black, but I can't see that one today.

Morning everyone, it is absolutely perishing out there.  Hope you are well-stocked up, well done Joyron, makes all the difference having full cupboards.  Yogi how are you coping?

I shall try and post a Christmas smiley every day now until the big day

I saw your post EL, thank you. I'm glad the all of the colour choices aren't spotty.

Good morning Squiggle, I love your little pic.

My middle son has phoned to say his bus journey to work took 1 hour and 40 minutes, instead of the usual 30 minutes.

Good morning everyone.    Love the picture Squiggle.  I look forward to seeing what you post each day.

We had quite a lot more snow overnight but it's not snowing at the moment.  I believe we may get another load later today.  It's bitterly cold and the wind is much stronger.

I prefer the colours we have on the forum today.  It will be nice to see all the different colours and patterns.

Speak again later. 

Hi Joyron. Stay home in the warmth.
I don't think I'll be venturing far from home today - it is snowing again.

Our forecast is to warm up a bit towards the weekend, as long as it doesn't freeze overnight I could get out which would make a nice change.

Thanks for your replies on the PM

I've just returned from delivering our church magazine in a nearby road. I normally do it first thing in the morning, but decided I'd wait until the temperature reached the dizzy heights of zero. I saw in the luchtime forecast that on Thursday night, parts of north east Scotland could break the UK record for lowest ever recorded temperature and could be as low as -30 C. I think that may be places like Aviemore rather than Scotland generally. But I think that temperatures will start to slightly recover after Friday.

Evening all.    Hope you are keeping safe and warm.

I've just finished watching the re-run of "The Onedin Line" on Yesterday, which I've been following for several months (with the exception of the two weeks we were away).  SO nice to have a series that has a happy ending for once!! 

Will try and get back later.  If not will catch up with you all tomorrow. 

Hello all x Well liking these colours better, a bit softer on the eye. The weather here is awful! Airport, The Forth Road Bridge closed. Schools etc closed. No fresh milk supplies, had to go to 4 different shops. Absolute chaos! Its supposed to freeze tonight. Hope you are all keeping warm

I saw on the news that the Forth Bridge had to close for the first time ever. I think and hope that things get better for everyone affected by this extreme weather. I think that after tomorrow, things do start to get less cold.

Evening all.
I am hoping the thaw starts soon, the snow is fast losing it's appeal.

El Loro, well done on getting the magazines delivered in this awful weather.

Hi Yogi, how are you dealing with the snow? It must be bad where you are

Hi Skylark. We have got well over a foot of snow now.
The big problem is that our village seems bottom of the Council's priorities when it comes to gritting and snowploughs.

Oh Yogi  Not much gritting here either, unless you live in Barnton (where most of the MP.s stay)

That's maddening, Skylark.