Bloody Cold

[mercuryg]

It's bloody cold.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Its December Merc!

[mercuryg]

Well do something about it!

[Maggie/915]

Fleese blankets hot water bottles and hibernation.

[Maggie/915]

Fleece sorry

[threegee]

Snowing even!

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/live.html

[Adam Hogg]

It's bloody cold.

How is it cold in the Lion merc?

[Symptoms]

Well I'm lovely and toasty doing this post ... just chucked another log into the blazing wood burner.  Yummy!

 

I want tons, and tons of snow.

Edited December 3, 2014 by Symptoms

[Vic Patterson]

How much snow would you like? Got tons to spare here, how cold would you like it? It was -37c a few nights ago

[Vic Patterson]

Ooops

Edited December 3, 2014 by Vic Patterson

[keith lockey]

Two day ago my Apple Blossom bush was trying to bloom again!

[mercuryg]

How is it cold in the Lion merc?

Currently bloody freezing!

[Symptoms]

On the news last week there was tons of the stuff blanketing the Yankees ... 6' deep all over - not just the drifts.  That's what I want to see.  It would mean great fun playing with the woof - having a laugh watching its attempts to retrieve thrown snowballs (being white it can't find them in the white snow).  What a hoot.

[Maggie/915]

The Red Lion could provide blankets and fill hot water bottles.

When the snow comes and Symptoms is throwing snowballs, will his dog be allowed in to dry out and get warm.

A pub/hotel bar up in Bamburgh last week was allowing in owners with their dogs.

[Brian Cross]

Freezing here too down to 34 yesterday sorry guys

[Adam Hogg]

Currently bloody freezing!

Why not stop drinking a cold beer then and start drinking a hot coffee merc?

[mercuryg]

Why not stop drinking a cold beer then and start drinking a hot coffee merc?

 

From 8.30 am until mid-day, that's office hours for me, I do precisely that. (69p and you can have as much as you like....)

[keith lockey]

Is that 69 pints Merc' or pence!!!

[Symptoms]

That's my definition of civilisation ... dogs being allowed into boozers.

 

Decent dog owners will always put the mutt's needs first;  mine get their nosebag before me, always a towel down when dripping and especially after a hose-down to get the mud off, pride of place on the rug in front of the fire.  I remember years ago going out wildfowling with a previous dog on the washes in East Anglia,  arriving in the pitch black (about 4am) before the first flight of the quackers the woof lept out the Landrover and ran into the darkness.  A loud splash was heard as the woof had run straight into the river - it couldn't see the water as it was so dark.  Back it came shivering (this was in the Winter), a quick towel down and the damp dog was ready for a days blast and retrieve in the flooded washes and river.  She was a tough dog ... it enjoyed its bowl of beer at lunchtime in the local pub that day.  Oh, and I had a fresh wild goose to take home for Xmas dinner. 

[Symptoms]

That should have been,  "... quackers the woof leapt out ... ".    

 

Careless Sym!!!!               

[mercuryg]

Is that 69 pints Merc' ......

 

Over a week, let's see......

[Maggie/915]

In Bill Kerrs' book on the Portland he talks about the Monday Club.

In the Red Lion it is just people keeping warm.

[Ovalteeny]

I'm half way through Bill Kells at the moment book and it's fascinating. 

[Maggie/915]

Thank you Ovaltenny it is Bill Kell and not Kerr.

Did anyone ever go to the Candlelight Club?

I remember going in 1967 ish.

Most folks are just too young.

[Ovalteeny]

Where was this Candlelight Club?

Apart from the WMC's (CIU Affiliated), the only club in Ashington I went to was The Cellar