Hairy Celt

Heavy rain at 3C.

Well the badger's expelled us: emerges gasping and blinking from the squalid orifice into quite a nice afternoon, albeit rather chilly!

Trying to look on the bright side, the wind's dropped and it's only light rain so far this morning. Still as gloomy as a badger's rectum and lots colder....

Ks sake. I'm emigrating. Latest were photos sent by youngest HC from Capri. I nearly cried.

Apparently, we've shifted to SPRING. Thanks @Paul, can you make this a reality please, it's minging still!!

Akureyri, Iceland - still definitely winter there!

The Icelandic 'volcano' is little more than a medium-sized incinerator with no filters so probably little to no effect this far away. The weekend was passably good and got out on the bike and got remarkably muddy again too. This winter spring I think have been about par for temps but above averagely wet. Starting to get on folks' nerves a bit - local gardeners wanting to crack on - it is April now after all. Farmers must be approaching despair. I hope @Northern Strath and family are well. We had our little grand-daughter here for the weekend which was lovely. Now pottering around on her pins rather than hands and knees. We hope to see more of her again soon and I can't wait. I would like to say something about Israel but dare not.

We had a long and pretty heavy shower late afternoon that had a couple of rumbles in it, just about audible from here for those tuning in.

Oh how do I know that feeling. One podiatrist said to me last year, 'your genes haven't done you any favours...' Useless onanist.

Nice try! It's still hammering down. 3.5C. At least the wind's not as bad as forecast. edit - sleet now f f s Stove's on. Groovy, say the cat, I'll have my tea now too.

Heavy rain started at about 7, looks like an indoor day. Laptop and lots of coffee.

Northernlights Our garden is green and the sky is blue with barely any wind. Solar panels going for it. After Sunday's forecast, Ms HC was telling her colleagues yesterday that today was going to be a sleety hell.... Now 9C after an overnight min of 5C.

Norrance Ha. Game on, Mr MetO. Maybe.

Halfamilefromnowhere One thing is guaranteed and that's that we only get an aurora forecast if there's a blanket of cloud! Chilly this morning but benign compared to tomorrow morning... probably just about cold enough for some seasonal sleet.

Already? Still 5.5C here.