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Reasons to be cheerful 2024

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  • CrankyYankeeCrankyYankee Posts: 504
    edited 29 February
    @B3 , I like that thinking!  We went from 53F last night to -5C this morning.  :D

    @rowlandscastle444 so glad to hear your surgery went well, fingers crossed for you that it did the job.

    RTBC today is that the sun is out.  Even though the winds are gusting and there's snow on the ground, that sun feels so warm. 
    New England, USA
    Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I potted up my six new bare root strawberries today.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Well done, @Lizzie27. I managed 40 minutes in the garden this morning, cut down some rhododendrons and got attacked by some enormous brambles, stems like tree trunks. Very dull and grey here today, but we took a walk round the village. Lots of daffodils, snowdrops and a few crocus out. 
    Hope all goes well tomorrow, @coccinella.

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    @ViewAhead I'm going with your perfectly reasonable seasons.
    In addition, I will continue to use Celsius to prove how cold it is and Fahrenheit to prove how hot it is.

    It had never occurred to me, but I do that too.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've never once in my entire life heard anyone describing a winter low in Fahrenheit.
    I use Celsius at all times.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Celsius wasn't introduced to the UK for weather forecasts until 1962 so I had 11 years prior to that.  For many years after then, both were given in the forecast.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited 1 March
    The rain has stopped (for now at least) and we have blue skies, white fluffy clouds, and …. SUNSHINE ☀️ 
    Hope it’s shining for Wonky too 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just back from town and the M & S Size 12 striped shirt fitted me!! In a Petite fit as well, miracles do happen!

    The daft thing is that I was wearing an M & S Size 16 jumper when I went in. You can't win can you?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited 1 March
    Clothes sizes are all over the place these days  (ladies' clothes, anyhow - gents' sizes might be more consistent). I have tops in every size from 8 to 14 (from various shops/brands) all of which fit (I must admit the 8 was a surprise).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @JennyJ men's sizes are no more consistent.  I've been trying on my short sleeved shirts in the hope that we will have a summer.  All marked as the same size but some are very loose on my but a few are so small that there is literally a gap of a few inches between the buttons and the button holes.  None were marked as 'slim fit' as I am most definitely not!
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