Posts Tagged ‘weather’

Proper snow

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

For those of you in for’n parts who might not know better, today it snowed properly across large parts of old Blighty. This lead to an abortive attempt to get into work, which in turn forced me to work out how to set up a VPN connection to our corporate network on my home Ubuntu box (easy enough) and how to remote desktop into our servers (even easier).

Later, we played with the kids in the snow and Louise got out her family heirloom Swiss sledge. Ben fell off once but no bones were broken. I got to play with my new (and awesome) Nikon 18-200 VR lense. I’ll upload the pictures to Flickr when I get a chance but I’m building up a backlog of techy items to get done (get with the cool kids on Twitter, upgrade blog software, install anti-spam plugin on blog, install Twitter plugin on blog, fix up tags and categories on blog, move neworbit.org domain and email hosting, move blog hosting…) so I don’t know when that might be. Then again, here’s me wittering on about rubbish instead of tackling said list, so clearly I’m on the lookout for displacement activities.

The loneliness of the early morning runner

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Hello my forward-in-time-reading friends, long time no see!

It’s strange the small things that signal the changes in the seasons. It can be a sound or a smell but as I got up this morning for my run, it was all in the light… or lack of it. The street lights were still on as I stepped out and there was an autumnal chill in the air.

I’m not sure if my running will sustain a downturn in the the weather. That said, I’ve found myself out in the rain on more than one occasion.

So, it looks like it’s back to getting my clothes ready the night before so I can get dressed in the dark and not wake the rest of the family up in the process.

And now my backward-in-time-reading friends, there will be an extending gap before my next post…

Snow 2008

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

“Mummy! Daddy! Guess what?! It’s snowing! It’s amazing!”

And so started our Sunday morning at 6.55am. This is one case where I’ll let the pictures do the talking.