It would seem we have a big front approaching named Storm Barbara!
Looks pretty darn chilly up there in Scotland - get your thick thermals out chums.
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Santa Baz posted:Yes
I'm ( selfishly ) hoping the map is accurate , cos if it is it will just miss me
I'm sure some of our Scottish friends will be less than impressed though.
See that dark spot between Glasgow and Edinburgh?
That's the tarpaulin just blown off my roof! 
Batten down the hatches!
Batten down the hatches indeed! That's great timing... 
I love it... even though I've not been in work (or indeed, dressed) since last Tuesday with chicken pox - today was the first official day of my holidays, so I snuggled in my bed till after 10 a.m. listening to the rain lashing against the window. Braw.....
Kaffs! The chicken pox!! I hope you're recovered, or mostly recovered!
Thanks, Lori - yes, i'm much better - just got the spots/scabby bits to go now! I believe they immunise against it in the States? Wise move. It's very much a childhood illness here - but not great when you get it as an adult. ... .and I thought second childhoods were supposed to be fun!
Kaffs posted:Thanks, Lori - yes, i'm much better - just got the spots/scabby bits to go now! I believe they immunise against it in the States? Wise move. It's very much a childhood illness here - but not great when you get it as an adult. ... .and I thought second childhoods were supposed to be fun!
Get well soon Kaffy 
thanks, EC 
Yikes! I don't think we immunize officially...typically you place your child in a room full of other children who have it, so they can get it over with while it's still relatively painless. 
We do immunize against measles and mumps, among other things... (I don't even really know what "mumps" is...)
I've heard it's pretty painful as an adult. Sorry you had to go through that!
Oh, must be a regional thing then, Lori - I only said that because my boss's brother is in the States (CA I think) I got it from my boss's kids and his brother said 'What? You don't immunise against it there? .' and rolled his eyes. That said ... he's a man, he's probably wrong! It wasn't pleasant, but just like kids, you feel at your worst just before the spots arrive... then you look your worst. For a week I looked like I'd been sleeping face down in cat litter....
What a great analogy! 
Also, I stand corrected. As of 1995, we apparently immunize against chicken pox. I've had no reason to immunize or be immunized, so that development passed by me completely. 
Kaffers You poor thing!!
Still, you've had lots of practise of sitting round, doing nothing, and watching telly. You should be a dab hand at it come Christmas
(I wonder where the phrase 'dab hand' came from ... anyone?)
Quick Google came up with this...
dab (v.) 
c. 1300, dabben "to strike," of unknown origin, perhaps imitative. Modern sense of "strike with a slight, quick pressure" developed by mid-16c., influenced by French dauber (see daub). Related: Dabbed; dabbing. As a noun from c. 1300, "heavy blow with a weapon." Dab hand is British slang, 1828, from dab"expert" (1690s), said to be school slang, of unknown origin, perhaps from dab in the "strike lightly" sense.
So, it means you will "nail it", right?
Rexi posted:Kaffers
Still, you've had lots of practise of sitting round, doing nothing, and watching telly. You should be a dab hand at it come Christmas
(I wonder where the phrase 'dab hand' came from ... anyone?)
Apparently it's of unknown origin!
Lori posted:So, it means you will "nail it", right?
An expert!
Storm Babs, oh er, saucy!
Made it to work......and made it home again. No floods and house is still in one piece!
Love from Scotland!
Get the canoe out!
Today the road has turned into a river!!!!!
Oh blimey! I hope you two are okay ... it's as mild as mild here, I had to have the back door open as I was cooking
Merry Christmas everyone!
We seem to be Ok for now Rexi.
When we start needing wellies and umbrellas INSIDE is when we REALLY start to worry!
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Merry Christmas everyone!
We seem to be Ok for now Rexi.
When we start needing wellies and umbrellas INSIDE is when we REALLY start to worry!
Eeeeeh, yer tuff you Scots xx