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Post by althea on Nov 20, 2024 16:25:15 GMT
I believe the Siberian wind is picking up and heading down country by the end of the week. Get your ear muffs on, it's more than a bit nippy. I'm so glad I bought that hat with the ear flaps. I obviously got it just in time. |
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Post by marispiper on Nov 20, 2024 16:58:13 GMT
It's 5 degrees here and will be minus 4 overnight, like it was last night. It snowed during the night again here too. I found out yesterday, that my next door neighbour is very poorly with bowel cancer. I have been keeping out of his way for a while after his protestations of love for me. He doesn't really know me and we have absolutely nothing in common. Now I feel guilty, thinking I could have been kinder. Nigel, over the road is also battling bowel cancer. Two cases so close together seems a coincidence. Poor chaps..not that your distance brought this on Althea, so don't feel guilty. There was a thing in the paper the weekend about bacon, yes bacon... Being a Grade 1 carcinogen, this doc was querying why it is in every supermarket and we eat such a lot of it (apparently) when cigarettes, another Grade 1 no-no, has warnings and has to be behind a screen 🤔 Major cause of bowel cancer (I read) |
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Post by waiting4atickle on Nov 20, 2024 17:34:11 GMT
There was quite a wind chill this afternoon, as I discovered when I went for a walk. I was coping okay until the sun became obscured by cloud - even though most of the sky was clear - at which point I decided to cut short my perambulation and head for home. I don't think the wind was Siberian - unless it came by a very roundabout route - but the wind is forecast to turn easterly tomorrow. Not for long, though, and we're expecting strong southerly winds at the weekend, ramping up the temperature and bringing lots of rain.
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Post by althea on Nov 20, 2024 18:15:09 GMT
It's funny you should mention Bacon, maris. Both neighbours eat a lot of bacon and sausages, or they used to.
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Post by hild1066 on Nov 20, 2024 19:45:04 GMT
It's funny you should mention Bacon, maris. Both neighbours eat a lot of bacon and sausages, or they used to. Essentially nothing wrong with eating sausage or bacon but in moderation. A bacon bap once a week is no more harm than a ham sandwich or salad etc. However, on my way to work I see a lot of builders (generalisation) parked outside Greggs and the butcher in the High Street who both make breakfast sarnies. Pretty dodgy to have one everyday and the advice has been out there a long time. It's difficult though isn't it, because lots of people always had bacon and eggs for breakfast years ago and we can only think they died before they got cancer! My mum, early 90s came out with me to do some Christmas shopping and she was watching two women much younger hobbling round the market. She commented that you see a lot more people who seem to be like that and I said, yes but when you were 20, living to 70 was considered a decent life span, so half of these people would have been dead. It really isn't that long ago that this was genuinely the case. Men retired at 65, if they lived that long, and were gone by 73. It was just normal. Cancer was more rare, but it was always fatal, now we live longer there's a lot more about. A colleague has had terminal prostate cancer for 7 years now. They keep topping him up with chemo, he's still working part time. That was just unheard of, even 20 years ago. Still bacon in moderation everyone. Then hopefully you can be like my mum, minus the inherent bitchiness, and be booking your hols to Malta for three weeks in January! She's just had temporary tattoos on her eyebrows done at the local college, they don't look bad either. Me I don't plan that long, it's already hard having to keep working. I suspect I'll just go long before 90 and so be it. My mum retired on an enhanced civil service pension when she was 42! It's still worth what I earn now. They had it so good and she's not even grateful!! |
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Post by waiting4atickle on Nov 20, 2024 22:42:39 GMT
There was a thing in the paper the weekend about bacon, yes bacon... Being a Grade 1 carcinogen, this doc was querying why it is in every supermarket and we eat such a lot of it (apparently) when cigarettes, another Grade 1 no-no, has warnings and has to be behind a screen 🤔 Major cause of bowel cancer (I read) This was discussed on Sunday morning by the "Broadcasting House" press panel, which included Alexander van Tulleken, who seemed to think warnings might be a good idea, but suggested that the plethora of articles in the media about the dangers of food is likely to be confusing, and reiterated the prevailing orthodoxy that people in general should eat less processed food. I think there's a song in there somewhere - Everything is bad for you in its own way. . . |
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Post by rondetto on Nov 21, 2024 4:31:08 GMT
Morning all: It's white over with frost this morning, not snow this time. But it didn't thaw at all yesterday so it's frozen on top of the snow. I have to nip out fir a few things but won't be out long.
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Post by rikiiboy on Nov 21, 2024 8:11:30 GMT
Hi Ron, I run the car engine yesterday evening for half an hour, and attempted to scrape the frozen snow off the roof, it still has a frozen film of ice, my car is in the north side, houses on the opposite side had all thawed out while my car had over two inches that hadn't thawed at all, bus pass out again today, hopefully I can use the car later to go to ASDA?
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Post by hild1066 on Nov 21, 2024 9:25:24 GMT
Goodness, it's cold. That wind chill is something else. By the time I got to work my hands were still freezing from scraping the windscreen. Take care folks.
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Post by toots on Nov 21, 2024 9:57:39 GMT
Rain, snow, sleet, we’ve had it all this morning with plenty more to come.
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