Sunday, 4 January 2026

The Sunday painting minion and the crew

 Well , that is the festivities well and truly  over with and it’s time to get cracking on with the real fun - painting . I hope you all had your pile’o’potential topped up and feel the need to damage it.  MartinC and I will be back at casting furnces of Pendraken this week - it’s rumoured he has an idea for a new mid challenge project - what could possibly go wrong. 

I have a coffee in hand to ready myself for the day . 

 

My part of the UK has snow and temperatures of -8 . If this continues into Monday the UK will grind to a halt . Yeah I know you Canucks - that’s not real cold - but this is the land of bland grey weather , everything else is chaos creating.

Image courtesy of North Yorkshire Weather updates - taken near me .


I see a few posts lined up . Remember this phase is the easy one 

In addition there will focused terrain posts that Minion Byron will process . He will update on the plan in due course . 

Have a great day guys .


23 comments:

  1. Wow that counts as a "serious" snow photo for the UK, only a ground frost in the UK West Midlands at the moment. I wonder if we are on an "Amber" weather warning what would that translate across to for Canada - slightly "off white" ?

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    1. Cheers - like that term

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    2. Environment Canada has moved to colour coded weather warnings too. Last month we had a Yellow Snow warning, which doesn’t quite sound like it was meant to. It looks like a reasonable snowfall, but locals still wear shorts at -8c.

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    3. Yes , it’s the famous Yellow Snow warnings… 😆

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    4. I don’t even pull out a winter jacket until -15. Until then a hoodie or sweater is just fine! Hell, Quinn gets yelled at daily by mom still for going out to the shop in sandles and no socks, and we have hit -30 a few times this winter already!

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  2. Enjoy your cuppa Dave. You Northerners should be able to cope with a bit of snow. As a teenager I watched in amusement when Hampshire got 2cm of snow on a visit to my dad.

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    1. Yes indeed , used to it as we did get colder winters years ago . The infrastructure that doesn’t cope !

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  3. Morning Dave, glad to share the day (and the weather) with you. Have a great day!

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  4. We are finally having some winter in the uk for the first time in years, I look forward to less aphids and hopefully those killer Asian hornets getting their butts kicked back overseas - our native bee population desperately needs a break.

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    1. Looks like a full week of proper sub zero for my area - hopefully sort those buggies out!

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  5. Just a light dusting and only down to -2ºC down here in Norfolk. Stay safe everyone. Not looking forward to the walk into work tomorrow.

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    1. At least it’s a dry cold at moment . My car wasn’t frozen over this morning at -6 just very cold .

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  6. Keep safe and warm, Dave. That is a mild day for us but you folks aren't kitted-out for that kind of weather.

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    1. Survived it nicely. Out for a swim this morning and painting this afternoon

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  7. That looks really chilly, ignore what our Canadian brethren say and wrap up warm.

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  8. My time in Wisconsin has left me with better tolerance for this UK weather, but as my Sconnie mates say, "Wrap up warm and watch out for deer"

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  9. Lovely to see a typical British chat about the weather. I wasn't so keen on the flurry of snow we had when playing golf with the Missus on Saturday. Proper parky. Hopefully I'll have my first proper entry done for the Saturday Empire deadline, so you can avoid having to post it Dave :)

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