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23 Mar 08 - 06:19 AM (#2295696) Subject: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Mick Woods Well it's Easter Sunday and it's snowing here in Lodon see Snowing |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:27 AM (#2295700) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie Remember Mick that this is the earliest Easter for 95 years, and it won't happen again till somewhere about 2160. G |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:28 AM (#2295702) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Bonnie Shaljean 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. |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM (#2295708) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie 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 |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:38 AM (#2295711) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Mick Woods Blackheath |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:38 AM (#2295712) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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23 Mar 08 - 06:45 AM (#2295716) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Bonnie Shaljean 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 |
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23 Mar 08 - 07:09 AM (#2295730) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: skarpi no snow here |
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23 Mar 08 - 07:36 AM (#2295743) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Mick Woods 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! |
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23 Mar 08 - 08:51 AM (#2295787) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck 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. |
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23 Mar 08 - 09:18 AM (#2295804) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: MaineDog There's lots of snow in my yard still, but no matter: He Is Risen!! MD |
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23 Mar 08 - 09:32 AM (#2295812) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,Martin Ryan The song is a lament for Seamus Ennis, the piper, who played the slow air of that name. Eastersnowe is a placename. Regards |
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23 Mar 08 - 09:46 AM (#2295819) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,Martin Ryan And, IIRC, the name Ennis called his (mobile) home in The Naul. Regards |
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23 Mar 08 - 10:25 AM (#2295841) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Bonnie Shaljean 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 - |
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23 Mar 08 - 11:07 AM (#2295860) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: McGrath of Harlow Talking to my father-in-law - never in his lifetime till now. And he's 96. You won't see this again. |
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23 Mar 08 - 12:50 PM (#2295923) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,teartse schaper of the hague, holland 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. |
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23 Mar 08 - 01:38 PM (#2295949) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: gnomad 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. |
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23 Mar 08 - 02:36 PM (#2295994) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Rasener 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? |
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23 Mar 08 - 02:52 PM (#2296012) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Alice We usually have deep snow on Easter. It snowed yesterday instead. |
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23 Mar 08 - 04:43 PM (#2296075) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Suegorgeous In Bristol we have no snow today (but then we rarely do). Darned cold though... |
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23 Mar 08 - 04:57 PM (#2296086) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Folkiedave 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 |
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23 Mar 08 - 05:04 PM (#2296091) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie I always assumed a relationship with the Easter Rising. G |
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23 Mar 08 - 05:10 PM (#2296095) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,Martin Ryan G The only thing rising in this case is a mountain! I'll get back later if I have a chance.... Regards |
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23 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM (#2296096) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Bert Snowed here in Colorado Springs as well. |
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23 Mar 08 - 11:27 PM (#2296268) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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23 Mar 08 - 11:36 PM (#2296273) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: open mike 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? |
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24 Mar 08 - 06:01 AM (#2296354) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Fidjit 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. |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:10 AM (#2296377) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:16 AM (#2296384) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:28 AM (#2296391) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Liz the Squeak Giok, I'd suggest a stronger anti-dandruff shampoo then - T-Gel is supposed to be good... : ) LTS |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:29 AM (#2296393) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie Doesn't show since I took to wearing bicycle clips G |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:47 AM (#2296397) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Seaking 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:48 AM (#2296398) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Seaking ..or is that 70s ? |
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24 Mar 08 - 07:54 AM (#2296403) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: GUEST,Dr Price 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). |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:23 AM (#2296463) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS 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. |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:27 AM (#2296468) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie Loitering within tent again Ned? Watch out for Micca, he's in Surrey too! G |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:42 AM (#2296477) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: MMario 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:49 AM (#2296481) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:56 AM (#2296485) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: John MacKenzie Soz Liz, thought he was visiting H&R. Who moved the boxes to get the sofas in? G ¦¬] |
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24 Mar 08 - 03:14 PM (#2296675) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Seaking 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 |
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24 Mar 08 - 04:18 PM (#2296724) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Liz the Squeak MP Denis Howell I believe - the drought was all his fault. LTS |
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24 Mar 08 - 06:38 PM (#2296825) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS 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. |
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24 Mar 08 - 09:54 PM (#2296956) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Richard Bridge 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! |
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26 Mar 08 - 05:01 AM (#2297826) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Splott Man 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! |
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26 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM (#2297857) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: The Doctor 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. |
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26 Mar 08 - 08:01 AM (#2297879) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Liz the Squeak 1977 was Silver Jubilee year... 'Long may she reign!' we all cried, and it did, it rained for months! LTS |
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26 Mar 08 - 06:51 PM (#2298346) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Herga Kitty I remember snow in London at Easter 1975, and locking through Tardebigge in snow at Easter 1986 on a Hergafloat canal trip.... Kitty |
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26 Mar 08 - 08:13 PM (#2298408) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Mick Woods Wow - thanx guys! |
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17 Apr 22 - 11:53 AM (#4139349) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: keberoxu . . . 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 . . . |
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18 Apr 22 - 05:20 PM (#4139485) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: keberoxu ... 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. |
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18 Apr 22 - 05:28 PM (#4139486) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Joe Offer We used to automatically close BS threads after a time to prevent the inordinate and uncalled-for refreshing of old threads.... |
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18 Apr 22 - 07:24 PM (#4139493) Subject: RE: Snowing on Easter Sunday From: Steve Shaw "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! |