What is the weather like there? General Chat

Florida weather. It's been cold for 3 days now. Near or below freezing at night. Tonight all the dogs are settled into their warm spots. 5 are under the electric blanket. Rita is in her bed with a heating pad and the space heater is on. Phoebe refused to come inside and is way down in her tunnel under the house. She must be comfortable in there. Many homes in Florida do not have heat so your only recourse is space heaters. On a happy note...I'm using much less electric without the air conditioner constantly running.

The weather here is quite mild. I wish though it'd either get freezy cold, or pour with rain ... even a blizzard would be fine with me because at the moment the Princess is being at her awkward best by refusing to come in at night! She's in one of her Greta Garbo "I vant to be alone" moods when she dons her dark spectacles and removes her hearing aid and pretends she can't see or hear me. Now ... if weather was lousy I wouldn't be having this problem 'cos she wouldn't want to go out!

De sky be blue
De sun be orange
[yellow does not show well]
It not be cold
But I be

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and yes I know it does not rhyme and that does not look like Pereg p or me for that matter, but I is tired.

Woke up to a blanket of white stuff this morning (4am walk round park) but now its gone as its raining

No snow here (swizz) but very frosty start to the day - my first job these mornings is to pour hot water on the frozen bird bath.

There are places on the way to town which the sun can't get to and they are quite treacherous to walk on.

This is K9 on the park at 4am this morning my nephew has brighten photo up as was very dark.

Great picture. Hope some of it is coming our way - Chico will be in for the surprise of his life! (And he would also have a shock if I ever tried to take him out for a walk at 4 a.m. He is the first dog I've ever had who likes a lie-in in the morning.

It's been below freezing every night for a week. So much for the warmth of "sunny" Florida. Rita is in her bed with a heating pad. The rest of us are under the electric blanket. Phoebe wouldn't come inside and is in her deep tunnel under the house. The space heater is going as most older houses in Florida have no heat. To make it worse I just started getting over a weird flu that is not covered in the flu vaccine I had last month. Sorry for the rant, but I still feel miserable and I'm freezing.

No idea as it looks good outside but I feels bad inside. Even, to my shame, went to bed fully dressed last night.

My mother was a night nurse and my father started work early, so I had to get myself ready for school. In the depths of winter (no central heating) I used to go to bed in my school uniform. My parents never knew

I can't ever recall going to bed in my school uniform but in winter I often got dressed in bed. The thing I remember most about my early schooldays was having to walk the half mile to the bus stop to catch the bus to school. No warm tights or boots in those days, just long socks and school shoes which left your knees bare and freezing cold and chilblains on your toes! And it didn't matter whether there was snow on the ground or not, when Easter term started you had to wear the summer uniform which was a cotton gingham dress and a blazer Its a wonder we didn't die of pneumonia!

Yes but I was still wearing my Uggs

Same with us - summer uniform after Easter, though we also had the joy of having to wear a straw hat (it was a felt one in the winter).

And little boys had to wear shorts until they went to secondary school.

We wore a beret all year round which you were forbidden to take off when you were out in public whilst wearing our school uniform. And our winter tunic was absolutely horrendous, It was a tunic worn over a long sleeved blouse. The tunic had slits either side from the waist down and on windy days either the front or the back "flap" would fly up exposing the hideous green bloomers you wore underneath. Many a time I walked down the road to the bus stop with one hand clutching my beret to stop it flying away and the other trying to hold down my tunic "flap" and praying that none of the local grammar school boys would get a peek of my knickers.

We too had a rule that we had to wear our hats in public (and only ever walk two abreast). If we were seen by a teacher or a sneaky prefect and reported for not wearing a hat, we had to wear it all day at school the next day - and explain to every single teacher why we were wearing it.

Yes, same hat rules at my school, and we were also not allowed to eat sweets in public. I was once caught eating treacle toffee on the way home, (the bag was in my pocket). As a punishment I had to write out the first chapter of Hardy's, 'The Trumpet Major'. I'm afraid kids just wouldn't do it these days, we must have been rather submissive.

And only walk on one side of the road.

As there was a crematorium on one side and a graveyard on the other side, both sides were rather unpleasant.

I think I'd still be scared of my Headmistress if I saw her now! (Unlikely as she'd be well over a hundred). I still feel guilty if I break one of her 'rules' - like using the word 'get'. That was strictly forbidden.

We got snow yeah

Send it over here! I can't wait to see what Chico makes of it.

Very very cold here today - Chico had to wear his coat when we went out - and now it's pouring with rain. Very cold rain - I live in hope of it turning to snow.