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We don't have a huge amount of snow here compared to the more beleaguered parts of the country, but we seem to have grown some decent sized icicles on our porch today :-

I particularly like the way the streetlight outside next door makes them look as though they're on fire from this angle.

Rob very kindly lent me his tripod (and set it up for me - isn't he a star?) so I could get a shot of them lit only by the streetlight, without using the camera flash. Who needs fairy lights, eh?

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The beauty of ice is one of the good things about this time of year!

A good thing I caught it last night, as everything's melting again now :-)

More snow forecast for tonight though.

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I loved those pictures. I particularly loved not having to go outside of my nice, warm bedroom to see the pretty icicles. The 'icicles on fire' was pretty awesome too.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them. Just as well I didn't leave it till this morning too, as everything's melting now! Not for long, I expect though.

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Oooh pretty :o)

We have some snow here, but its more the damp yucky sort as we're just on the dividing line between snow and no snow.

Thank you!

The snow here is not all that deep and the main roads have stayed clear, so the only difficult bit is getting back up the slope off the main road onto Hope Street.

What I'm getting a bit concerned about is next Wednesday - we have tickets for The War Of The Worlds in Nottingham, so I'm hoping we don't get stuck on the way!

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The snow is just messing up like. It is not terrible here but I can't get OUT to where I want to.

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What, as in Jeff Wayne? Did you know arGid played session on that?

*Is envious that you're going*

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What, as in Jeff Wayne?

Yes indeed :-) we booked the tickets back in March, so I didn't realise it would be quite this snowy. cold, yes, but...

Did you know arGid played session on that?

No, I didn't - I knew he was a musician of course, but I dint know he'd been playing with the Martians :-)

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I'm pretty sure he said that his were the opening chords on the record. Something like that, anyway. He's a clever boy is arGid, and married to a very talented wife. Huh. You can go off people...

(Have you met them? They're lovely. I couldn't go off them if I tried.)

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Have you met them? They're lovely. I couldn't go off them if I tried.

I have a great deal of respect for Gid, but we've argued quite viciously on afp about smoking - Gid professes to disbelieve in the effects of passive smoking and Suzi actually believes that her smoking is beneficial to her asthma (or at least, such was the case last time the subject came up), both of which I find incredible - to an extent which I think precludes us ever being real friends.

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Smoking does seem to be something of a blind spot for both of them. Considering that they are both highly intelligent, this is, I agree, something of a befuddlement.

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I freely admit, it's not a subject on which I'm at my most rational. My parents both smoked when I was a child and the long drives down to Devon in a smoke-filled car worked like aversion therapy on me. Interestingly, not so for my sister, who still smokes occasionally, although she's not a heavy smoker.

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My father smoked all his adult life. On one occasion when he tried to give up he was so impossible to live with that I, who hated it, begged him to start again.
He was an active man who died from sudden heart failure. I hold to the belief that his heart attack was smoking-related.

As an asthmatic myself, I completely fail to understand anyone who can aver that smoking can help asthma. Except... she may yet be right. When I was a child, the thing that helped me most was a coal tar vaporiser. It smelt nasty, and gave me a disgusting taste in the mouth (I usually had the thing burning overnight beside my bed), but - bizarrely - it worked. Life is strange.

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I hold to the belief that his heart attack was smoking-related.

Seems quite probable - although then again, the man who invented joggin died of a heart attack, so who knows?

My mum now has bronchial asthma to the extent that she has a Blue Badge because her ability to walk is so limited and Dad died of throat cancer. I'd be surprised if both weren't smoking related.

My mum has a friend who has survived breast cancer and now has leukemia and still smokes...

Life is strange.

This is indeed one of the Great Truths :-)

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I like the last one, I really must get to grips with a tripod! It's more years than I care to remember since I saw icicles like these. And tbh I don't mind if it's that many years before I see them again!

I really must get to grips with a tripod!

Rob's is a nice Manfrotto one - we use it a lot on our Scottish holidays with the scope for birdwatching.

It's more years than I care to remember since I saw icicles like these. And tbh I don't mind if it's that many years before I see them again!

Definitely with you on that one! :-)

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Those photos are stunning :-)

Thank you! I very nearly didn't bother going out to take them, either!

The tripod shots were on the third attempt when I couldn't get them steady enough by hand...

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Very pretty. But coooooooold *shivers*

Definitely :-)

Good thing I took the pictures last night though as they're already melting this morning!

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Ooh, pretty! We've got loads of icicles too, and they've dripped like crazy today so as well as a foot of snow, we've now got a nice thick layer of shiny ice about a foot wide all round the house. And at the back, it's splashed all over my kitchen window and covered that in ice too, and all the bricks round the window. It looks lovely but I'm sure it's probably not ideal.

That does sound a bit dangerous if you're not careful :-(

Good thing I took the pictures of ours last night as they've almost melted away now. And they're forecasting more snow for tonight too. Joy.

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Well done with those pictures! The sodium streetlight sets the icicles off beautifully - better than the massed winking Christmas lights that'll soon be adorning the houses round here.

I've not so far seen any hicicles, but then I haven't yet stuck my head outside. Actually, I'm hoping that there's no ice, especially on the roads, so we can get to the shops and stock up for Freeze Part II, which we're supposed to be getting next week.

Thank you. It's just as well I got the pictures last night, as the icicles are melting rapidly this morning!

but then I haven't yet stuck my head outside

Can't say i blame you - I'm not going out any more than I have to either!

Actually, I'm hoping that there's no ice, especially on the roads, so we can get to the shops and stock up

Good luck!

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...as the icicles are melting rapidly this morning!

It's several degrees above freezing here now, but it'll probably freeze down again tonight. It's just started raining, so no doubt there'll be sheet ice all over the place by the morning :-(

Good luck!

Thank you! It must have worked, because we managed to get to Stevenage and do an Asda shop, so we're well stocked up for most of next week now.

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It's just started raining, so no doubt there'll be sheet ice all over the place by the morning :-(

Nasty! :-(

There's more snow forecast here for tonight, but no actual sign of it yet.

we're well stocked up for most of next week now.

That's good - you can avoid driving on the ice at least.

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You got some nice ice sickles!

We got 6 inches worth of snow this weekend.
That definitely will keep me inside doing house stuff this week.
:)

Thanks. good thing I took the pictures when I did, as they'd mostly melted away the next day. It's still icy and horrid here though.

Six inches of snow sounds like no fun at all :-(

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Not much fun anyways since you really have to be a kid to enjoy it. Looks pretty though.
The roads are staying clear and that's all most of us adults are concerned about.
:)

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I always like icicles. I like them when they are a few feet long.

They didn't get quite that big this time, but we're threatened with more cold soon, so you never know :-)

I like icicles to look at, but I don't much like the weather that lets them form - it's been fleece trousers weather for the last week or so! But we got off lightly compared to Scotland, which is pretty much at a standstill in places.

It's melting quite enthusiastically today, but of course that means the remaining patches of ice are even slipperier. I think I'm getting old, as I'm focusing on the practicalities rather than the pretty. Bah.

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You're not getting old!

I would think the same way, really. I'm not much of a fan of the cold, I need to move to warmer climate where I can sit out in the sun in a hammock oall day and relax. I'm assuming that you live in a country near Scotland then? Cool.

I've been thinking about moving somewhere warmer for a couple years now, but I feel stuck here in New Jersey. I never graduated from college, so my career choices are limited since my employers require a degree.

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You're not getting old!

Thank you :-)
But on the whole, I think I prefer getting old to the alternative :-)

I'm not much of a fan of the cold, I need to move to warmer climate where I can sit out in the sun in a hammock oall day and relax.

I don't much like the cold, but I don't like it too hot either - anything much over 25 Centigrade (77F) and I start to feel uncomfortable. Just plain awkward, me :-) So I'm grateful to live in a place where there (usually) aren't huge extremes of temperature.

I'm assuming that you live in a country near Scotland then? Cool.

I'm in Derbyshire, which is pretty much in the middle of the UK - we're not far here from the point at which you're the furthest it's possible to be from the sea in these islands, which is only a bit over 70 miles. I have trouble still getting my head round the fact that some of my Transatlantic LJ friends would have to drive for days to reach the sea :-)

I suppose, by US standards of distance we're not far from Scotland at all, as we can drive there inside a day :-) It takes most of the day to get from here to Oban on the west coast where we get the ferry to the lovely Isle of Mull for our holidays though.

I never graduated from college, so my career choices are limited since my employers require a degree.

I suppose there's no way you could study for one now? I didn't go to university after school, but I have a degree now from the Open University (<"http://www.open.ac.uk/"). I had to pay for it all myself, but it saved me from feeling my brain was dying in a series of supermarket jobs. I don't really use it for anything these days, but I learned a lot and I feel it helped me be a more analytical thinker )not that that's saying much :-)).

Is there anything similar in the US?

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In terms of colleges, I could go somewhere, but to be honest I don't want to. I have certain interests and I work at those often. Of course that piece of paper saying I have a degree could come in handy. Oh well.

Hmm, today for example, I drove about 125 miles south for work. I can't say I like to drive far distances, but I've driven a good amount in my life!

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