Groundhog day!

[BrendanS]

Today is the pagan festival of Imbolc as well as being the Christian festival of Candlemas. It is the first Quarter day - half way between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. Traditionally, if the sun shines today, winter is over, but if the sun is behind cloud, winter is still to come - a legend that has given rise to Groundhog Day.

If you wanna know more about Groundhog Day -
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=groundhog+day&btnG=Search+News

 

[pvb]

Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

Standards are slipping here. Yes it's Groundhog Day, but your interpretation of it is completely the wrong way round!

If the sun shines today, tradition has it that there'll be 6 more weeks of winter - not that winter is over. In the US, it's often related to whether the groundhog can see his shadow - if he can, it's back down into his hole for another few weeks' kip.

 

[chas]

What you really mean is less than two months before the boat goes in. I wonder is there will ever be a year when it goes in with all the jobs done or will I always spend the first few weeks on the mooring doing what I should have done before it went in?

 

[lyc]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

...and it's a sunny morning here in Norfolk!
/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[jhr]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

Aaargh! Hardly a cloud in the sky in Hampshire.

Bet it rains on St Swithun's day as well.....

 

[Cornishman]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

<font color="blue">...seems we have all the cloud in Cornwall, but at least it's mild - about 10 C at the moment </font>

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

Oop, yes you're correct. I cut and pasted without proof reading, and sadly to say actually know the correct version /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[tcm]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

i'm sure you did this last year...

 

[bob_tyler]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

"...seems we have all the cloud in Cornwall, but at least it's mild - about 10 C at the moment"

It certainly is dull here at present. Does this mean that summer is nearly here in Cornwall but that in Norfolk and Hampshire 6 weeks of winter still to go?

 

[jhr]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

Cloud arrived in Hampshire about an hour ago, so immediate panic is over.

In my experience, even in balmy Hampshire, we've still got about 11 months of winter to go................

 

[AJW]

Re: Oh, Brendan! Get a grip!

Count yerself lucky, its a brilliant sunny day here in Canada with a balmy -12C!
I think if we only got another 6 weeks of winter we'd be very fortunate - I asked someone how long the snow lasted and they told me we could still get snowfall in May /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[tcm]

jeez!

having come back from incrediblecold skiiing in fr alps at -20 i now know what you might be enduring. Still, no warm beer eh? I hope that girlfriend has a very huge, massive and warm...duvet.

 

[BrendanS]

Re: jeez!

There's a very good test for beer temperature, but unfortunately I cannot post the pictures of the test here!

 

[AJW]

Re: jeez!

The beer remains cold, the gf's duvet (suitably massive) is hot so life is tolerably good /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Coming back to blighty for a week in March so will reaquaint myself with proper beer then.

Coldest I've ever been outside of Aberdeen at New Years was skiing in Vermont in -25ish. No fun. Here, the entertainment has been thawing the jeep out so I can drive home from work (frozen slush stretching from tyres to ground).

Ah well, it still beats Essex.....