Not so bad here, one or two glorious days but pretty cold. When it snowed about a month ago, Tesco’s carpark was cleared of snow and it all ended up in one huge pile.  Four weeks on and the pile is still gradually melting, about 2 feet high now.

Miss February. She is standing on one Marilyn* looking at another, on the very tip of the Llyn…[Read more]

On how many levels is this comment from Fergie wrong?

“You are the brother I always wished to have…marry me”

A woman visiting a maternity ward asks one of the babies, “And how old are you?” The baby says, “I’m two days old.” The woman says, “You can already talk?” The baby says, “Well, I wasn’t born yesterday.”

Hi @catsnbirds, pretty confused when you guys talk about sub-zero temperatures. I thought the US used Fahrenheit.  But you don’t say sub-32 temperatures. I suppose you use it loosely to mean below freezing. Or are you just translating for us Brits?

If you claim it is minus 40 then I won’t be confused as that is where the the two scales are…[Read more]

Ashamed to say @briann that I have been a bit distracted from all that by the news that Nigella Lawson has been recruited onto the Bake Off team.  As if the show’s innuendo quotient wasn’t already off the scale. I am having a moment, not to say a soggy bottom.

My god, did you watch this game? Played in a blizzard. Was white such a good colour for the Patriots to wear? Maybe it was, their defence was able to hide. Not that anyone could see very far anyway.