The gritters have been out, so hopefully the snow won't cause too much havoc, El.

Your client has been through the mill, poor man. I hope he recovers well and I'm sure his wife will take good care of him.

I was very impressed Yogi

 

EL I hope your client manages to recover his strength soon, sounds like he's been through a terrible ordeal.

Signing out for the night, sleep well everyone.

Night yogi Aw el, your poor client its seems unreel when they change so dramatically isn't it. My lovely g'ma was very skinny in her final months god bless her, I do hope your client is making progress with his recovery and that his wife is coping with caring for him

I want snow, I could make a snow dog

night yogi and summer

my feelings always show in my face as well - i just cannot tell lies

Good morning everyone

 

For Summer, I found a snow dog on Google. For copyright reasons it's not possible to post the picture here, but here's the link to it It's worth looking at.

 

And to counterbalance the snowdog, here's a snowcat looking rather sad:

Summer, have you noticed that Pan Am returns tomorrow on BBC2 Double bill starting 10.10 pm.

Good morning everyone, EL your snow cat looks like Garfield and exactly how a cat would look if left out in the snow

 

Its quite a bright morning here, makes a change from yesterday they forecast a dry afternoon and every time I went to get out of the car or go to the car the heavens opened with wintry showers

 

The things you see on your bird table, obviously the birds must have cleared the flat top bird table (I will refill it later) so the clever woodpecker was perched on the bird feeder this morning.  I don't know how he did it clever thing

 Snap. I'm sure that's supposed to be a good thing.

How's this for a snow dog, Summer?

 

Love the snow cat, it really does resemble Garfield.

Oh, you're lucky to have a woodpecker visit your garden, Squiggle. We only see them when we go walking in the woods.

 

Good morning everyone (forgot my manners), it's snowing again this morning.

Morning xx
That did make me laugh Yogi 
Having seen Garfield too many times to mention, yes that looks like him 

Cold here today but no snow, thank goodness . 
Hope your client is stable El, and his wife is coping well  

Good morning chilly but bright again, snow predicted for later. I'm loving the snow dogs & cats! such fun! El, thank you for the PanAm info, I had an e mail from my SIL telling me too, but if neither of you had told me I would not have known! I had series linked the sky+ but with a gap like that, the link ends, so it wouldn't have recorded it. I'm very much looking forward to the show, I feel like I'm on holiday for the time it's on

One thing's for sure we will never make poker players will we?

 

Also I can't play chess because I am such an optimist that I see all the good moves coming my way and then am totally broadsided when the opponent's good moves wipe my players out

 

I am very lucky I get both sort of woodpecker, the green one as well although he tends to peck at the lawn more.  But the other woodpecker this morning, the feeder is smooth plastic not netting for him to grip onto and the perches are tiny for the little birds like bluetits.

 

Loving the snow dog Yogi I wonder whether he was having fun.

Squiggle I love that you have woodpeckers! I think they're fascinating and beautiful creatures, I saw my first one during a walk last year

I had never seen any until I came to live down here.  They are such funny birds, sort of like Mr Bean of the bird world because of their upright stance and serious faces, they both make me smile, and I freeze when the green woodpecker comes and pecks at the lawn right in front of me.

Yogi, that's a great snow dog

 

Squiggle, I'm not much use at chess either - the good chess players can plan several moves ahead which I can't.

You are lucky to have woodpeckers visiting you. The most exotic bird likely to visit my garden is a robin

I love chess, havent played for a while, usually play with my brother that i dont see so often now. When i think i have it all sorted he only makes one move then i am off track again!  Taught both my kids, they are not bad, but bad losers!

Lovely you have woodpeckers squiggle 

Advance warning of very cold temperatures particularly in the southern half of the country from the Met Office well into February. There's a huge area of high pressure over Russia and Scandinavia and the result is that we get the cold from there. Looks as if this will be the coldest weather of the winter. I just hope the temperatures don't get as low as December 2010

Is this the future for manned space exploration

 

While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science.

Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad used a weather balloon to carry a camera and a toy lego man high above the clouds.

 

Love the little Lego Man In Space.

 

I could never master the art of playing chess - Draughts are my limit.

Oh had a bit of a vertigo moment there El, my own fault for looking 

Very cold here got the heating on full blast !

Robert Vaughan in Corrie, had to look twice ! 

Napoleon Solo in Corrie, who'd have thought it?!

I'm showing my age, aren't I?

Me too Yogi

 

Signing off now, enjoy the eviction everyone, speak to you tomorrow.

Goodnight Squiggle, I hope you sleep well.

Just a bit Yogi  I dont buy TV mags so that was a surprise !

Night squiggle  

I can play chess, I don't really think ahead though, I'm a one move at a time kind of player. I do enjoy Ludo more though We have a friend who just called- he's in the peak district, stuck in snow! He's waiting to get towed

Poor man!

We have some snow lying on the gardens and pavements, but the gritters have been out so the roads are pretty clear.

Are you watching CBB tonight?

But of course ! 

I spotted you in the thread. Who do you want to win?

I don't care too much, as long as Denise doesn't win.

I'll be happy if Gareth wins but I don't think he's in with a real chance.

Popping off for a bath & bed, with a possible bus catch if I can. Sweet dreams all I wouldn't mind if Frankie won, Denise is a hag IMO

I agree with you.

Hope you catch the bus, sweet dreams.

Off to my beddie byes, goodnight everyone.

night yogi

Oh sorry just saw this, bit late now !! 

Off to bed, nite nite everyone  

Good morning everyone

 

Cold but dry at present.

 

Although I don't watch Corrie I seem to remember some months ago hearing that Robert Vaughan was going to be in it. According to what I've read he's appearing over the next 3 weeks so it's not a permanent role. It's strange to have him in Corrie and also in Hustle on the same evening. Maybe he developed a liking for working in the UK whilst on Hustle.

Good morning everyone.

Its absolutely freezing up here, so my day got off to a bad start when the central heating wasn't working when I got up.

Luckily, middle son was able to phone a gas engineer work colleague, who was able to diagnose the problem over the phone and told him how to fix it. I now have heating and my teeth have stopped chattering. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hope you are all warm and cosy where you are.

 

Maybe Robert Vaughan likes it over here now.

Yogi, I'm glad that your central heating problem got sorted out quickly - this isn't the kind of weather where you can do without heating.

 

I've since found out that Robert Vaughan has been working on a film in this country and during that time was approached by people from Corrie.

 

He's making a film called The Magnificent Eleven. It's a comedy very loosely based on The Magnificent Seven, This time it's about a struggling amateur football team called The Cowboys. Robert Vaughan must have jumped at the chance to be in The Magnificent Eleven as he was one of The Magnificent Seven.Considering that The Magnificent Eleven is written by Irving Welsh who wrote Trainspotting I very much doubt that it will be a family film.