If you are eating sharp jam it is a good sign that the jam owner dropped the jar and scraped the contents into a new one.

Happy New Year!

Well things are a bit odd this week innit.

Which is unusual for week 2.

I really can't think of much to say at the moment.

Neither can I, but we might as well keep la Aniston's upward progress going.

It is foggy here, and chuffin' cold.

Clear and sunny, 4°C when I set out, -2°C when I got back.

Currently 31; supposed to reach 36 today.

(CdM) A pretty accurate description of what it's like here, but in Fahrenheit.

(Rosie) Heh - but I'd still rather be here. Can't do heat.

I can't do heat either. Just been out for lunchtime dogwalk; 4C and strong winds is a bit brutal but if you keep moving it's OK. I was so bundled up as to be unrecognisable walking into the wind but had to take off me hat walking back with the wind behind me
What gets me is the freaking gloom here. It was midday and gloomier than a gloomy thing. Awful.

It is sunny here, but still a tad chilly. I also have toothache, and an expensive looking sheet of dental treatment. Pliers and DIY wooden teeth might be an alternative.

(Chalky, pen) As part of my weather-nut activities I have just discovered that in Jakutsk, Siberia, the current temperature is -50°C. Minus fifty. Not a breath of wind but a thin fog. Wrap up well.

(Rosie) So what they say about Siberia is true.

(Chalky) Parts of it, yes. Jakutsk is a large and quite agreeable city. All the buildings are on stilts about six feet high so the heat from them doesn't melt the permafrost. In the brief peaky summer it's warmer than London and very sunny.

Ooh! It is snowing!
And JA has almost gone.

(Rosie) Googled. Mammoth Museum!
(Boolbar)Where?
Gone.

[Chalky] In Bedfordshire: hence "Snowy Beds". And it only lasted a few minutes. The bulk of the snow is probably held up at customs along with all the lorry drivers' sandwiches, so it won't go hungry.