Snowing on Easter Sunday

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 07:24 PM

"1977 was Silver Jubilee year... 'Long may she reign!' we all cried, and it did, it rained for months!"

Not me, mate. I'd been married for six months (we're still here...) and I proudly sported a "Stuff the jubilee" badge. I got our first cat in July of that year (therein lies a tail/tale...) - there's a story behind that - and we've never looked back!

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 05:28 PM

We used to automatically close BS threads after a time to prevent the inordinate and uncalled-for refreshing of old threads....

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 05:20 PM

... and we have snow blowing in from the northwest this evening
so it will get down below freezing,
a winter weather advisory in effect ...
expletive deleted.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 22 - 11:53 AM

. . . well,
it is here, anyway.
Snowing thick white flakes of snow
AND
the sun is shining in a milky white sky,
not a storm-cloud sky.

And in a few hours
no doubt it will be doing something entirely different . . .

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Mick Woods
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 08:13 PM

Wow - thanx guys!

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 06:51 PM

I remember snow in London at Easter 1975, and locking through Tardebigge in snow at Easter 1986 on a Hergafloat canal trip....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 08:01 AM

1977 was Silver Jubilee year... 'Long may she reign!' we all cried, and it did, it rained for months!

LTS

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: The Doctor
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM

My second son was born on 9th June 1977. It was snowing in Leeds. The weather for that period was so cold I had to take knitting needles and wool in to my wife so she could knit a hat for the baby to wear when we brought him home. We had nothing small enough.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 05:01 AM

I remember the snow at Easter 75 too. I was guiding a boat down the Oxford Canal into a blizzard.

I know how to live!

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:54 PM

I'll second that.

Sunday night I retired fully clothed inside one sleeping bag inside another sleeping bag, and for a small fee I will NOT reveal what is alleged to have been said by a certain Dame in the next tent to mine!

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 06:38 PM

Splottie and I are home now. We had a lovely time in our tent, with all the snow on it, it resembled a corrugated tin shed. Thank you to Hills and Richard for having us. Brilliant weekend.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 04:18 PM

MP Denis Howell I believe - the drought was all his fault.

LTS

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Seaking
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 03:14 PM

Splott Man, Dame, and all you other hardy camping types, I have nothing but grudging admiration for you this weekend, I hope you've an ample supply of brandy and other anti-freezes with you.

Thanks LTS, 1975 fits well as it was the year I owned my first car -a Mk1 Morris Minor - 900 cc of raw power pushing through the snowdrifts. What did we blame the weather extremes on back then ?

Chris

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:56 AM

Soz Liz, thought he was visiting H&R.
Who moved the boxes to get the sofas in?

G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:49 AM

Micca wasn't in Surrey on Saturday and gave the impression that he was rather glad he wasn't, because of the weather. I suspect he didn't move very far from his new sofas all weekend.

Seaking - it was 1975, the year before the Great Drought of 1976. Is that mid '70's enough for you?

LTS

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: MMario
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:42 AM

I can remember quite a few "white Easters" - bonfires on the beach so the brass choir could warm up their mouthpieces enough to play for the sunrise service; snowball fights in the churchyard - easter egg hunts in the snowy woods

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:27 AM

Loitering within tent again Ned?
Watch out for Micca, he's in Surrey too!
G

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 09:23 AM

Me and the Dame are camping in Surrey.

Lovely crisp tent!

It's now almost literally an igloo tent.


Splott Man and the Dame online in a field.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,Dr Price
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:54 AM

I rang my mum in Frinton, Essex on Easter Day; the snow was laying, so they cancelled the planned Easter Sunday meal. Out along the A12, there were all sorts of bumps and shunts caused by the snow.

Down here in South Wales, the weather forecast warned of showers in rain and show. We drove Llantrisant to Swansea and back, and though there were several heavy rain showers, we didn't see snow. All we had were snow flurries on Easter Saturday.

The wind was blowing a gale from the north, which must have made the wind chill factor 0c (freezing).

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Seaking
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:48 AM

..or is that 70s ?

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Seaking
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:47 AM

I can't help thinking that had there been a Miskin this year I'd have spent the weekend in a tent...

I have vague recollections of battling through snowstorms to get back to college following the Easter break -sometime in the mid 70's.

Chris

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:29 AM

Doesn't show since I took to wearing bicycle clips
G

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:28 AM

Giok, I'd suggest a stronger anti-dandruff shampoo then - T-Gel is supposed to be good...

: )

LTS

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:16 AM

We had a fall of about 3" in the night, and we keep getting more showers of the silly white stuff, on and off.
G

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 07:10 AM

I'm dreaming of a white Easter, with every Easter egg I bite....

It's my second white Easter - first was in 1975, when I was 10 and living in Dorset. I had to slush my way to church through about 3 inches of the stuff.

Snowing again today, Easter Monday. Not sticking yet though.

LTS

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Fidjit
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 06:01 AM

Posted this on the other thread, which went below the line.

Well in Sweden, we would normally have lots of snow all winter.
However, this year . . . . . .

Not a lot until, as you all have now, Easter Snow ! !

And half a yard of it too !

Chas

PS, Half a yard of ale would be nice.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: open mike
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 11:36 PM

Today i watched a video i took 15 years ago where i interviewed a Ukranian lady and she gave a demonstration of making Pysanky...
Ukranian Easter Eggs. (no snow, but that is what i did for Easter )
it is snowing tree blossoms here...yellow forsythia, white star magnolia, are all around on the ground. I think i put some Pysanky egg
links in another thread...possibly the easter traditions one?

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 11:27 PM

Are you familiar with GoogleEarth? It is a free service which showes aerial views. Eastersnow is a hamlet in County Roscommon, Ireland, and you can see it on GoogleEarth. It seems to consist of a half dozen small farms across from a curiously dark field or bog.

I would like to know what the curiously dark field is.

We had stray flakes of snow today, coming from a blue sky studded with cumulus clouds. It seemed strange.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Bert
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM

Snowed here in Colorado Springs as well.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 05:10 PM

G

The only thing rising in this case is a mountain! I'll get back later if I have a chance....

Regards

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 05:04 PM

I always assumed a relationship with the Easter Rising.
G

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Folkiedave
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 04:57 PM

The guest on my radio show asked for Easter Snow on Friday - expalining it had nothing to do with Easter but was an English corruption of Irish words - which I can't pronounce or write.

Dave

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 04:43 PM

In Bristol we have no snow today (but then we rarely do). Darned cold though...

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Alice
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 02:52 PM

We usually have deep snow on Easter. It snowed yesterday instead.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 02:36 PM

Had about 5 inches in Market Rasen. Snow still in our backgarden 18:30.
I said to my daughters that it is special today, Easter Sunday and loads of snow.
They also have experienced the epicentre of an Earthquake recently.

It comes in 3 so what is the next one?

Temperatures of 90 degress in March?

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: gnomad
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 01:38 PM

Only a flurry or so, and nothing lying in the town (Whitby, N.Yorkshire) but the moors around us have had a fair dusting and I saw several snowmen near York. It has been damned windy for several days, northerly too, which means cold (by UK standards) Not boating weather at all, the swell has been flying over the bandstand when the tide was full, and the little white horses extend right upriver into the upper harbour.

In northern UK we get Easter snow often enough, I have certainly camped in the Pennines amid snowdrifts at Easter. I am less certain about why I did so, but put it down to the foolishness of youth.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,teartse schaper of the hague, holland
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 12:50 PM

We too have some snow today. Not very exceptional.The first lines of a Dutch nursery rhyme read:

Aprilletje zoet
Heeft nog wel eens een witte hoed.

In English phonetics (as close as I can get):

A-[as in ask]prillatja zoot
Haift nog [g very guttural]well ains a witta hood

My (free)translation:

Sweet little April
May from time to time wear a white hat.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 11:07 AM

Talking to my father-in-law - never in his lifetime till now. And he's 96. You won't see this again.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 10:25 AM

Thanks for the info, Martin! The YouTube caption I saw said something associating the young piper who is playing and "the Naul" but I was passing through and only glanced briefly so I could have misread it. He's in a pub - maybe there's some connection with the name - ??

Anyway, I'm glad to know the meaning behind the title of this lovely air (though I also like the seasonal image it evokes, which always makes me think of mountains for some reason). That's the oral tradition for you - I got this tune from a flute player in Cork, and never saw it or its title written out. Anyway have a great Easter -

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 09:46 AM

And, IIRC, the name Ennis called his (mobile) home in The Naul.

Regards

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 09:32 AM

The song is a lament for Seamus Ennis, the piper, who played the slow air of that name. Eastersnowe is a placename.

Regards

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: MaineDog
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 09:18 AM

There's lots of snow in my yard still, but no matter:

He Is Risen!!

MD

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 08:51 AM

Don't forget, we have only just had the firest day of Spring, so snow is more likely than anything else.
Anyway, I was thinking it's a bit early, usually waits for the first day of Cricket Season.
Quack!
(surrounded by rapidly melting slush)
GtD.

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Mick Woods
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 07:36 AM

I know it's not unusual to snow in March - I even remember snow in May in the late 80's I just don't remember it falling in London on Easter Sunday before!

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: skarpi
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 07:09 AM

no snow here

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 06:45 AM

Thanks for posting those words, Giok. There's a nice YouTube clip of a piper from Naul playing the Easter Snow air, which he does beautifully, but I wish he'd picked somewhere quiet to record it. The pub-background noise is appalling! Anyway:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aLR8ywOuT5I

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 06:38 AM

Statiisticly it is more likely to snow at Easter than Christmas in England - honest! Look it up.

Snowed heavily here in Manchester last night but it is melting now.

Cheers

D

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Mick Woods
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 06:38 AM

Blackheath

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM

There's also this lovely Christy Moore song, not sure about these lyrics though. Different tune to that Bonnie mentions.


EASTER SNOW
(Christy Moore)

Chorus:
Oh the Easter snow
It has fade away
It was so rare and so beautiful
Now it's melted back into the clay

Those days will be remembered
Beyond out in the Naul
Listening to the master's notes
As gently they did fall
Oh . . . the music
As Seamus he did play
But the thaw crept over the mantle whit
And turned it back to clay

Chorus:
Oh the Easter snow
It has fade away
It was so rare and so beautiful
Now it's melted back into the clay

He gazed at the embers in reflection,
He called up lost verses again,
He smiled with a roguish recollection,
While his fingers gripped the glass to stem the pain
When knocked on his door was always open
With a welcome he'd bid the time of day
Though we came when the last flakes were melted
While it lay upon the ground we stayed away

Chorus:
Oh the Easter snow
It has fade away
It was so rare and so beautiful
Now it's melted back into the clay

Giok

Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 06:28 AM

Neat. What part of London are you in? You'll have to learn/play the Irish air Easter Snow. Here on the south coast of Ireland it's sunny and mild but it snowed last year. And we had a proper white Christmas a couple of years ago - looked like a scene from one of those old fashioned cards.