Not nice weather.

[reapermum]

The weather has been ridiculous over the past few days, it doesn't know what it wants to do. Here it's just been gloomy because of the thick clouds. But othe parts of the country have had snow, rain, wind and frost. A few miles away it was freezing and at the same time we had temperatures of 10C

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[spikesgirl58]

Stay safe!

[reapermum]

I intend to. I'm spending tomorrow making marmalade. It'll be interesting to see how it comes out as the oranges are from China instead of Spain. Spain had awful weather in '24 and it destroyed the crop. These oranges appear to be the right variety, but we'll see when I cook them.

I'll be out in the evening at a talk on Soviet mapping of the West during the Cold War.

[spikesgirl58]

Good luck with the marmalade. I had a fairly big cooking day yesterday, so I'm just sticking to usual three meals today.

Hope the talk is a good one.

[curiouswombat]

Hurrah for your council having good sense about building in areas that will flood.

My daughter and I used to play a game as we drove anywhere, especially off-island, of spotting places we wouldn't buy houses... on-island we knew we were right about the small, rather up-market, estate called 'The Mill Race' - it flooded withing 3 years of the first house being built and all the residents were shocked! But we also remember 'Flood Lane' (honestly!), 'Riverbank Road', 'Marshy Lane', and a few others between Heysham and York, too.

[reapermum]

Hurrah for your council having good sense about building in areas that will flood.

I fear for the future with the new government's plan for more house building under looser control. If the developers appeal against the council planners we could well see houses being built there. The only hope is the fact that they flood every year so the building sites themselves could be under water while they're still in progress.

[jaxomsride]

Building on flood plains should be illegal, the only ones who benefit are the developers.