Marty

I'm open to correction, but I suspect frozen rain is hail, not snow... I can't spot hail in the following list: Admittedly number 30 is psychohail

Big fluffy flakes of rain???

Oven baked...? Sautéed...? Or boiled?

Ugh gross! Over my dead body ! *shudders* Dead body? That's what meat is, isn't it?

True, that.

Today is also World Table Tennis Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-table-tennis-day/

Greetings, young Albert.

There's been a few times when it's tried to snow here in the past few days. Just the odd few flakes, but not enough to settle (yet), not even on the mountains.

It's the opposite here. A week ago it went up to 26°C but today it's down to 5°C (it was -3°C early morning!) Not really any different here than in clo's Picardy.

Nothing wrong with the humble potato. Although if the "different forms" bit means what it is cooked with (or in), then maybe you are not treating it right.

She's more likely to ask what your usual weekly meals are. And to ask about your alcohol intake. And don't be surprised (being diabetic) if she also spends a long time talking about good and bad cholesterol levels, and what foods are good and bad, as regards them. I don't think just one meal will be all she will be interested in. Oh... and if she's anything like mine, she will send you home weighed down with numerous leaflets. Have a good visit with her, my friend.

I'm almost worried about Val when I say this... But I had home made thick cut potato chips (fries) and a mushroom omelette. (I decided a few weeks back to resurrect my old chip pan after a number of years of not using it, and finally getting to the stage where my home made chips are getting back to their awesomeness.) Good night, all! (It's way past my bedtime. )

Thanks, Geron! Hopefully the picture you imagine is similar to the one I was trying to paint when I penned the piece.

Looking good, clo!

Good to hear!

Greetings, young Albert! All well in the Albert household?

Ugh! Lucky you! It only reached about 5°C/41°F here, but felt like 0/32 with the bitter north-easterly wind blowing. Currently 2°C/36°F with real feel of -3/27. Expected to get several degrees lower overnight...

Good for mum! Tell her I said hello.

And a damn good one as well!

Beautiful imagery and poem, Gary! ❤️

Way too cold for me I would be at the hotel sipping hot chocolate One of the challenges I had set myself around 2013 was to stand on the highest point of all 32 counties on the island of Ireland. So, on the Easter Monday of that weekend trip to the southwest of Ireland, I decided to climb Knockboy which, at 706 metres (2,316 feet) above sea level, is the highest point in County Cork. Actually, I had set out to do it on Easter Sunday but, after a hair-raising six or seven mile (10 kilometre, or so) drive down a narrow switchback single track road with grass growing up the middle of it, and often steep drops on either side, I got to the start point and stepped out of the car into a howling gale, and a mist that had come down leaving almost zero visibility. I wisely decided that the mountain would still be there another day, and got back in the car and returned to the hotel (where I possibly did have hot chocolate, Mr B). The next day proved better, so I returned to make the climb. Here's a photograph of the summit triangulation point with my rucksack next to it: You may notice that I had my tripod strapped to my rucksack. However the day was so cold that my fingers froze after taking my gloves off to take this photograph. So there was no way that I could have managed to assemble the tripod and attach the camera to it and set it on "Timer" to get a 'selfie' without severe frostbite setting in. And before any of you ask whether there is any hidden meaning behind the name of the mountain (Knockboy), it's derived from the two Irish Gaelic words cnoic buí, which basically translate to yellow hill. (Buí means yellow, and is found in many Irish place names, and is often anglicised to 'boy')

And you, bro.

It's also Read A Road Map Day today. (https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/read-a-road-map-day/ You planning a road trip, Val?

The Brendan Theme (from The Brendan Suite - Composed 1979-1980 by Shaun Davey) Full suite (The Brendan Voyage: "A suite for uilleann pipes and orchestra" 40 minutes) below: