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Saturday Six – Hot Weather

Karen — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:08:25 +0000

Yet again it’s time for this weeks Saturday Six and this week topic was chosen by myself and there is only one question with six answers.. And as we seem to be having a bit of a heatwave here in the UK, I thought of the perfect Saturday Six…..

What 6 things do you do to keep cool on a hot day?

There we go, one question with six answers for you to have fun with…

Ok, that’s it, thanks for taking part and I’m looking forward to everyone’s answers. Don’t forget to hit the “Tweet” button in the SexyBookMarks to ReTweet this weeks Saturday Six.

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Snow Causes a Standstill in North Wales!

Karen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:29:47 +0000

It’s not very often we get snow here on the North Wales coast, it’s due to the fact that we are so close to the see that it only makes it to the hills behind us, but, yesterday we had a barrage of snow coming down and we were all bought to standstill.

It took me ages to do a simple drive home from work yesterday with everyone crawling along at around 5-15mph, though there was the odd nutter that decided they didn’t have to and decided to try to overtake everyone else, there’s always one!

So today I’m off work and though the sun is shining the road is like an ice rink it’s just so icy and slippy, but there are still people braving the weather and driving up the road with their wheels spinning road on the ice.

Even the poor flowers are having a bit of a hard time with the weather, but with more snow forecast over the next couple of days and it getting colder, then it looks like we will have to turn up the heating, rap up warm and just go with the flow

So how’s the weather where you are, have you had a dusting of snow, a having thick covering or nothing at all? I’d love to know

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UK Heatwave to Break Temperature Records!

Karen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:18:45 +0000

It’s time to slap on the sun lotion as soon as you can if your living or visiting our little island this week as we prepare for a heatwave to hit the country.

It’s been forecasted that this week could break all the records over the years with temperatures hitting 30°C (86°F) in the middle of the week, which would make it the hottest spell for years!

But despite all this the forecasters have also said that this will not be a solid wall of sunshine as it will be broken up by the odd thundery downpours, it will also feel humid and the pollen counts will rise, which is just what us hay fever sufferers need!

The Bookmakers Ladbrokes is offering odds of 8/1 that Wales beats its top temperature of 35.2C, and 17/2 that Scotland tops 32.9C or Northern Ireland exceeds 30.8C.

Ladbrokes have also set 13/2 that the top temperature midweek will hit 32°C (91.4°F).

I know that our back garden here in North Wales has hit 29.4°C (84.9°F) which has felt a little cooler by a nice coastal breeze, but it’s still hot and it’s lovely, but have we got this hot spell for a short time, will it disappear next week and return to rain, rain and more rain. We will se but I’m personally hoping for a good run of warm weather, yes the odd shower would be nice to cool everything down at night, but the warm spell would perfect for BBQs and garden lounging

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We’ve had some seriously nice weather lately

Karen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:27:16 +0000

Those of you who have been following my Tweets lately will of noticed that I have made several over the last few days about the weather and how gorgeous it has been.

And for that haven’t been following my tweets, why not!….

Anyway over the last few days here on the lovely North Wales coast we have had some absolutely gorgeous weather, on Wednesday our back garden hit around 28°c (82.4°f) and yesterday we hit around 30°c (86°f) in the back garden and the conservatory was even hotter, with the hottest been an unbearable 39°c (102.2°f). Who needs to go on holiday when the weather is this good

Thursday night was great later as we had an amazing BBQ, yes another one, and a quantity of chilled wine to wash the burgers, sausages, kebabs etc down, now I’m just hoping that the weekend has the same sort of weather, a few showers thrown in for a few minutes would be great to chill everywhere down.

So here’s to possibly and hopefully the best summer in years PARTAY!!!!!

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It’s amazing how many lobsters you see in the sun!

Karen — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:17:16 +0000

It’s quite amazing how many “lobsters” you see out on the beach and roads when the sun comes out!

No I don’t mean the one pictured, I mean, those type of people that sunburn to a lobster colour!

Living so near to the beach and during half term for the kids or when the main holiday seasons start, there are some truly terrifying sites to be seen when driving up the local coast road, past all the holiday camps, yes I know people have to go on holiday, but surely they should take care of their skin or even dress in a suitable manner.

Usually all you can see as you drive along are a wash of middle aged men in a pair of shorts only, with a HUGE belly hanging out of the the top of the shirts and as red as a “lobster” usually in toe with 4-5 kids which look like they were born one every 10-11 months and a wife that is so skinny and chain smoking while pushing a buggy along.

I mean, come on, just because you’ve gone on holiday do you have to show off your blubber to everyone, or do they do that at home as well, hmmm maybe.

Yes, I know before anyone starts that this is normal in the UK for the “lobsters” to roam the streets, with stacks of kids in toe, but YUCK!!!

There would of been a photo, but I politely asked a man if I could take his photo for a local blog which I write, this one and he replied “R A Our Kid, if you give us a tenner you can ‘ave me kids”, shivers went down my spine at this point and I replied, “If your children are only worth £10 to you then what is the world coming to!” at which point he pulled out a can of Tennants larger from his childs changing bag and walked off, seriously, what is the world coming to.

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Saturday Six – Lazy Summer Days

Karen — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:43:16 +0000

Hi everyone, back again with another Saturday Six, this weeks topic is Lazy Summer Days, so lets get on with it.

What is your ideal past time on a Lazy Summers Day?

Do you enjoy BBQs?

Sun bathing or lazing in a pool?

Chilled glass of wine or chilled pop/juice?

If it’s too hot do you try to tan like a lobster or go inside?

Do you worry about the risk of cancer when binge sunbathing?

Ok, that’s it, thanks for taking part and I’m looking forward to everyone’s answers.

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What a gorgeous day we have had with the weather today!

Karen — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:36:01 +0000

Unusually for a Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK we have had a gorgeous day, the weather has behaved itself very well and we peaked at 24°c in the back garden, awesome.

It’s been a day of doing nothing and been able to have dinner in the garden with a nice chilled glass if wine is the perfect end to a perfect day.

I’m just hoping that tomorrow will bless us with another gorgeous day here on the North Wales coast, so here’s hoping

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Monday Moan – Icy Weather

Karen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:41 +0000

It’s been an awful day today, I got up this morning to a cold and icy day, it took me a good twenty five minutes to clear the car of ice and then I had to “skate” along the drive to open the gate!

What made it worse was that the local council really didn’t think this was going to happen, even though the rest of us did.

Our street was like an ice rink and the little country lane I have to drive up to get to the main back road to work was just as bad, surely it should of been gritted knowing people use this narrow road to get to work ect in the morning, so there I was doing a steady snail pace up the road to get to work, it must of took me at least an extra twenty minutes to work this morning, good job I started out early!

I’m just hoping that tomorrow isn’t the same as today, or I’m going in later!!!

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A little rant to get the day over with!

Karen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:05:35 +0000

It’s been one of those days today, for starters it’s done nothing but rain all day, got soaked this morning running to the car to get to work and then in turn got soaked once I’d got to work!

Then it all happened again on the way home, got soaked getting to the car from work and soaked getting into the house after work, also on the way home I was amazed how many people don’t have their lights on when driving in really bad weather, it really helps to see other people if they have their lights, some people have no idea.

On the way home I have to drive down a narrow lane and just my luck it was flooded, the water came right up to the bottom of my doors, lucky the water never came in!

Anywho, that’s my rant over, hhmm, strangely feel better after that

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Bad weather causes the Guzzlers Kar Klub to cancel!

Karen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:33:31 +0000

I was really looking forward to the car show up the road from me today, but, sadly due to the extremely bad weather that we have been having lately the organizers have canceled the whole weekend, which is a real shame as the shows are something to really look forward to.

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