In the frozen north west, it's a balmy 2 dec C today. Some of the softies have put a proper short sleeved t shirt on instead of the proper glaswegian sleeveless job. Must be feeling the cold, poor wee lambs.
Proper weedgies are insulated by years of eating scotch pies and deep fried porridge.
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Its lovely and warm here on the bench, big dressing gown and fluffy slippers on!
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Told you Apples were rubbish but you wouldn't listen!!Originally posted by cojak View PostA seasonal milestone in Nottingham today, it's too cold for my mac, time to dig out my winter coat.
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12 degrees in my home office. Quite happy and warm in my jumper, apart from my toes. Slippers have fallen apart and been thrown out... wonder if I can put new ones as a Business Expense...
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not forgetting to fire off a couple of emails from home at 6.30Originally posted by russell View PostThe trick is to swan in at 10am planning to work till 6 or 7 pm then when the last permie leaves at 5:00:00:0001 you are clear for exit.
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The trick is to swan in at 10am planning to work till 6 or 7 pm then when the last permie leaves at 5:00:00:0001 you are clear for exit.Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostHolmes, this is Watson here.
That gives me a choice of being at clients at 7am or 11am
must be an early bird I reckon
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Holmes, this is Watson here.Originally posted by russell View PostTraffic is gone at 10am
That gives me a choice of being at clients at 7am or 11am
must be an early bird I reckon
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it's a traffic-jam avoidance scheme.Originally posted by russell View PostWhy are you in the office at 7:39, that's the middle of the night? Are you a farmer?
There is a brilliant spin-off. I get to see lots of spectacular sun rises
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Pretty average for the time of year though, unlike the last few years. Great day yesterday. Anyone see last night's "Will it snow" programme, where the MET office said they predicted last years' Siberian temperatures. Err, that's not how I saw it. Anyway, a chap there said they can't predict it this year, long term weather forecasting is left to amateurs whose forecasts read like horoscopes, i.e. can't be falsified.
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Why are you in the office at 7:39, that's the middle of the night? Are you a farmer?Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostIt was down to zero here this morning in Manchester. The first time this year that I had to get the scraper out
and the office is like an ice-box - brrrr

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36 degrees in Leeds this morning according to the car...
Car does temp in Fahrenheit tho, if I change it to centigrade it changes the speedo to km/h and I can't cope with that...
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-1 for me - i'm not far away and just a bit higher!Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostIt was down to zero here this morning in Manchester. The first time this year that I had to get the scraper out
and the office is like an ice-box - brrrr

3 time I've had to scrape the car this season though
definitely not the first time THIS year either
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Temperatures plummeted to a jaw-dropping 8 degrees last night down here on the south coast.
Might have got colder after I went to bed mind you.
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