Beautiful day in my neighbourhood

[alvertta]

All the best for a great weekend. We are enjoying sun in Ontario.

[SheffieldJane]

💚

[Rose54]

Sun shinning in UK today

Makes a change

Enjoy your weekend

[Blearyeyed in reply to Rose54]

Not in North Wales , grey , dreary , windy and it's still raining off and on after what seemed like a whole night deluge.

I'm coming to visit you!😋😂😂😘

[HeronNS in reply to Blearyeyed]

Oh I bet that's what we had here a couple of days ago!

[Blearyeyed in reply to HeronNS]

I was once told that as well as getting the tail end of weather from US/ Canada over the Atlantic , the amount of rain we received had much to do with water usage in the US causing an increase in the Water Cycle.

Batty statement , but it's always amused me to look out of the window on a very rainy day and to be able to say , " The Americans have all been bathing again!"

😋😂😂😂😘

[HeronNS in reply to Blearyeyed]

We live in what is in some ways the tailpipe of North America, getting atmospheric pollution from the US east coast. I do think that has improved as acid rain has been curbed to a degree. The latest storm we had was what they call a Colorado Clipper, so if you are getting it it is a storm which originated in the Rockies!

[Blearyeyed in reply to HeronNS]

I like the sound of that , plus bad weather is like the uninvited guests that we all share a dislike for and hide under the duvet to avoid .

Maybe that's why they keep giving them such great names.

I had an Old Aunt when I was little that my Nana would make us hide behind the sofa from if she saw her coming to call , I think I should send in her name as a suggestion for the next Hurricane.

[JanetRosslyn in reply to Blearyeyed]

Ha ha, we were made to hide behind the sofa too when a certain relative came to call. Thank you for prompting funny memories. Have a lovely day.

[Rose54 in reply to Blearyeyed]

Had plenty during the night but bright and sunny all day

[KellyInTexas in reply to Rose54]

We all know that’s just not possible! 😂

You even have nobility named Earl ,”Grey” for goodness sake! And an entire outerwear company named .... you guessed it... London Fog!

Now we know that Rose54 is actually a marketing and advertising executive who works in tourism for promoting tourism for the UK!

Oh just kidding with you Rose. The English roses are world famous. So are your lovely gardens and city parks... The sun must come out for a few min in May and June... 😊

( I’m just jealous because we are still reading in a Texas... at 92 Fahrenheit...)

I was last in England and Wales during the Harry/ Megan wedding. ( didn’t realize the terrible timing on my part- I fled London and went to wales!)

Absolutely beautiful weather! I think the queen ordered it just for me! 😜

[Blearyeyed in reply to KellyInTexas]

Glad you got to visit Wales on our one day if Summer!😋😂😂😂

[KellyInTexas in reply to Blearyeyed]

British Friends took us to ( I’m going to spell this wrong) Bets-y- coed . Swallow falls?

I call it Betsy Coed ! I can say that and it doesn’t make my auto correct go bonkers.

I have to say it was really very beautiful. We have lots of pics.

[Hidden in reply to KellyInTexas]

Betws-y-coed 😉 but you weren’t far wrong ~ did you ever get to visit Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch? 😉

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Reminds me of being in the car going to Anglesey as a kid and all of us trying to say it as we drove tbrough/ past.... It was more like mumble mumble... Mumble mumble gogogoch!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

That’s really a place name?

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

It certainly is! Known by the not so brave as LlanfairPG - it actually means - “St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the fierce whirlpool of St Tysilio of the red cave"

Back in the day, when l worked for BT it was one of my Telephone Exchanges!.....

[Blearyeyed in reply to Hidden]

It's not just the brave , Llanfairpwllgwngyllgogery , or LlanfairPG for short , is actually the original name .

The rest of the name was added by a Victorian during the Age of Steam apparently as one of the first ever efforts at Promotional Tourism.

They realised they could get more people wanting to take the trip by train over the Bridge if they got the chance to visit the place with the longest UK place name and make back their investment in the railway.

It is basically just a railway town with a bit shop in it.

Although it is historically also the birthplace of one of the first groups of the W.I too.

[KellyInTexas in reply to Hidden]

I was going to, but I had difficulties pronouncing the name asking for directions 😂😂😂!

***but I will add our family friends who live in Runcorn who took us to Betsy- coed delighted in sharing that town’s name with us! They told us it’s like scrabble tiles- just throw them on the floor and see how they land- that’s Gaelic!

[HeronNS]

Sun supposed to get here tomorrow. 🌞

[Gary1310]

If the sun comes out here today...I will take my annual drive through the Hiawatha National forest to admire the golden leaves. It’s like driving through a golden lacy tunnel..... to Lake Superior in Munising, Mi. and Marquette for dinner.

[HeronNS]

Yes, the sun is here today. Chilly, but a glorious autumn day. And despite dire predictions that the "weather bomb" would rip all the leaves from the trees they had only just started to turn in the city so must have still been firmly affixed and everything is looking very pretty!

[alvertta in reply to HeronNS]

Glorious day in Ontario too. Love autumn.