A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own.

[Regulator]

I would not have said it was particularly cold here, but the office was 13°C this morning. By lunchtime this had risen to a balmy 14.5°C. It transpires that my darling employer had only switched the heating on at 11.00...

Unless that's you wife, aren't they aware of the laws governing the temperature of workplaces, and the requirement to find an alternative location if they cannot meet them? IIRC it's 16C within 2 hours of official start. Of course doesn't apply to shop foors etc.

Something of a myth I'm afraid. There is no law stating minimum or maximum temperatures.  There is HSE guidance however - 16ºC or 13ºC if employees are doing physical work.

[T42]

I would not have said it was particularly cold here, but the office was 13°C this morning. By lunchtime this had risen to a balmy 14.5°C. It transpires that my darling employer had only switched the heating on at 11.00...

Unless that's you wife, aren't they aware of the laws governing the temperature of workplaces, and the requirement to find an alternative location if they cannot meet them? IIRC it's 16C within 2 hours of official start. Of course doesn't apply to shop foors etc.

Something of a myth I'm afraid. There is no law stating minimum or maximum temperatures.  There is HSE guidance however - 16ºC or 13ºC if employees are doing physical work.

That's what I was told when I was working in Glasgow, 50-odd years ago.  Great strides have obviously been made since. TBF I think it's the same here but I've never checked it.

[rafletcher]

Must have been Union power at work in Weirs then, some 45 years ago.

[Cudzoziemiec]

There was, like, actual ice on the pavements at midday today. Ice! In England! In January! What's going on, is it the 1980s or something?

[Kim]

I saw some ice earlier.  I think someone had been exercising the elephant washing their car.

[Cudzoziemiec]

If it had been an elephant, there would have been a Tilley hat, quietly steaming. https://packpaddle.com/tilley-hat-eaten-elephant-3-times/

[Jurek]

Frozen puddles on my way home at 15:00 today - they've not thawed out since last night.

[ian]

Seems cold enough for the hill to get slippy, so I did my one-man gritting operation, a task for which any gratitude will arrive in the afterlife. I'm not trying to curry favour with the appropriate deities as I need to get into Hell as I have property investments there and AirBnB for demons comes with regular and significant cleaning bills.


The downside of gritting is that I forgot I shaved the end of my index finger off in one of those incidents with a mandolin and not the musical kind which would have certainly been kinder. Anyway, road salt meet exposed finger innards. O mama!


Other things have met the insides of my finger recently


The onion I was slicing
The isopropyl alcohol I was using to remove the previous finger blood from keyboard and iPad screen
The salted nuts at the theatre last night
The alcohol stuff I cleaned my hands with before the nuts

[Mrs Pingu]

I would recommend application of a Compeed or other hydrocolloid plaster to your wound. Keeps the ouchy stuff out but allows it to heal nicely. (I used one to hold the flap of skin on the end of my finger that I nearly sliced off when sharpening the grass hook last year. Couldn't tell you which finger it was now)

[ian]

I could only find a big ungainly plaster, which is now in place to prevent me leaving bloody finger prints everwhere because touching things provokes the blood tide. It looks like I gave people the finger so often that I wore it out. My Macbook keyboard was pure murder scene. I'm staying away from the cats in case they get a taste of human blood as I don't fancy having to carry a chair to fend them off for the rest of my life.


I collect scars though, I have so many now that chicks don't so much as dig as hire earth excavation equipment. They dig them so much they could have finished HS2. As a plus point, I've now so many scars I'm inoculated against sharks.

[rafletcher]

Wall to wall kerb to kerb hoar frost this morning. Such a releif from rain, and the clear skies mean a bit of daylight on my homeward commute.

[Wowbagger]

The temperature dipped below freezing here this morning: -0.4°C. The good bit is that sunrise is now before 8am 7.59.51.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

5C in York, maxing out at 7C.

[Regulator]

It was -2° this morning when I went to the gym and the car needed serious defrosting.  It's currently hovering around 0°.  Jack will need his coat on for his walk.

[T42]

We might hit 0°C towards noon today if we're lucky.  Right now the thermometer on our north wall reads -3°, which really means -5°.  The 14-day projection doesn't get above 3°.  Quacks don't want me to ride in less than 5°.  Bah.

[Cudzoziemiec]

5C in York, maxing out at 7C.

It's warm up North.

[TimC]

Clouded over here and the temperature has risen to a dizzy 1.9C. Think I'll break out the shorts.

[Auntie Helen]

Cycled to work in the cold, it was minus 7.

[Kim]

Sparknado!

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Down to 4C in York. Arctic.

[T42]

Cycled to work in the cold, it was minus 7.

Aren't you over Munich way?

-7°C here too this morning. Not as bad as the mid-80's, when we had -28° in Stuttgart.  Going out in the morning I could feel my jeans getting stiff just walking to the car - which started!

[Jurek]

A balmy 4°C here today.

[Flite]

3C,  sunny and no wind this morning. Ideal for a bike ride.
But I've got a sore back Grrr

[chrisbainbridge]

Blister plasters are the best thing for those finger injuries, Ian.

I don’t know what you lot are complaining about. I am suffering 28degC and 80% humidity. It is really difficult.

[rogerzilla]

SNOmageddon next week.  Break out the studded tyres!