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08 Jan 10 - 05:58 PM (#2807005) Subject: UK Cancellations due to weather From: katlaughing I thought it might be helpful to list links to all of the UK cancellation thread because of the weather. Please feel free to add more here: Les Sullivan @ Herga postponed to 25 Jan 2010 (UK) Faldingworth Live 2Sussex folk Oxfolk Phoenix Ceilidhs |
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08 Jan 10 - 06:05 PM (#2807012) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: WFDU - Ron Olesko What's going on with the weather in the UK??? |
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08 Jan 10 - 06:07 PM (#2807014) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Guest Anne Drovers Folk Club,The Black Bull,Birstall,Yorkshire.Cancelled this Saturday,January 9th. Hope to see all our regulars and friends next month,February 13th. Anne,Geoff and Mary. |
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08 Jan 10 - 06:20 PM (#2807029) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: My guru always said Sadly, Lewes Saturday Folk Club has been cancelled for tomorrow, January 9th. Yes, the UK weather is pretty crazy at the moment, and unfortunately we're not geared up to cope with it. Thanks for this thread Kat!! |
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08 Jan 10 - 06:27 PM (#2807037) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: katlaughing You are most welcome! Ron: The U.K. is in the midst of the longest bout of cold weather since December 1981, according to the U.K. Met Office data. Freezing weather is predicted nationwide and the weather forecaster expects 12 more days of bracing cold and icy conditions for Britain. There's more HERE. |
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08 Jan 10 - 07:43 PM (#2807092) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Leadfingers The Tap in Brentford ran OK , though it was a bit thi on the ground at 2030 ! Good night in the nd , but we ARE in a Built Up Area ! |
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08 Jan 10 - 07:58 PM (#2807100) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: katlaughing Red Lion. |
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08 Jan 10 - 08:03 PM (#2807106) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: skipy For anyone going to Rita Courtholds birthday party, now put back due to snow, contact Adam. Skipy |
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08 Jan 10 - 11:17 PM (#2807191) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: katlaughing refresh |
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08 Jan 10 - 11:24 PM (#2807196) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Good luck to you all! We are used to the freezing conditions around here, but I know what happens when parts of the country are hit with unexpected weather. I was in Nashville once when it snowed about 1/2 inch. They closed the schools! I was amazed until someone said to me "you would not want to send your kids to school with people on the roads who've never seen snow!" Keep warm and stay well - and remember, spring will be here before you know it! |
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08 Jan 10 - 11:43 PM (#2807205) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: ClaireBear This thread really needs a link to this image. Brrrr! Claire (fluffing up her fur in sympathy) |
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09 Jan 10 - 01:55 AM (#2807261) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Ralphie Just to prove that the Brits do have a sense of humour! Large parts of the UK have been deluged with camera crews and news reporters under some of the heaviest reporting conditions for almost forty years. An unusually high level of snowfall has prompted news networks to react with a sudden flurry of intense coverage with areas of southern central England said to be 40cm deep in clichés such as 'it's like an ice-rink' or 'a little drop of snow and the whole country grinds to a halt'. Many schools have been forced to close after lessons were disrupted by continual requests for interviews with parents and teachers. Railway stations and airports are also struggling to cope with secondary crews doing 'pick up' shots and filming disgruntled commuters. Parts of the A3 were blocked overnight by radio cars and outside broadcast vehicles, while several people who had braved the snow had to be rushed to hospital after being crushed by swarms of reporters keen to get their reaction to the cold weather. It is suggested that almost 44% of people had chosen to stay at home rather than risk being door-stepped by someone with a microphone. In Scotland, a local ski resort had to be closed after crews from the BBC, ITN, SKY and even CNN arrived hoping to shoot an offbeat segment intended to show that some people were actually enjoying the inclement weather. The problem has been exacerbated by the large number of local and regional networks sending their own reporters to the scene. In some of the worst hit areas, newsreaders have been reduced to interviewing their own correspondents, asking them what it's like to be stood out in the middle of nowhere in freezing conditions. However, despite the heavy news presence, coverage has remained patchy. ITN is predicting apocalyptic polar conditions lasting till March; BBC News has adopted the tone of a slightly irritated pensioner and Sky News has promised to maintain round-the-clock aerial coverage despite having already lost two helicopters. To make matters worse, local councils are said to be running seriously low on gritty news with the emphasis on getting to the busiest areas where large groups of news crews have drifted. There is a chance that armed forces units and fire services will also be deployed to provide at least some visual interest. A spokesperson for BBC News 24 said, 'In these hazardous conditions we are urging people to leave the house, if only to abandon their car or fall over in an amusing and illustrative manner. We desperately need more stuff to film.' |
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09 Jan 10 - 04:32 AM (#2807305) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: My guru always said LOL Ralphie! Brill story! |
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09 Jan 10 - 05:21 AM (#2807327) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: TheSnail Apparently there have been huge increases in the sales of thermal underwear , cat litter and condoms. |
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09 Jan 10 - 05:30 AM (#2807330) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band "ELSIE`S", Sat.9th Jan.(Tonight) "Quorum`s" gig is cancelled. To be re-arranged later in the year. John |
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09 Jan 10 - 05:34 AM (#2807333) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post From: Ruth Archer And crumpets. I've not been able to get any for at least a week. I suspect this is because people think that when they are snowed in, they really ought to be curled up by the fire, eating crumpets with butter all down their fingers. On the other hand, you can't move for hot cross buns at Sainsbury's. Clearly these do not fit the category of a cold-weather comfort food. |
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09 Jan 10 - 05:39 AM (#2807336) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Ralphie I know this is a cancellation notice thread. But, maybe this one will help keep spirits up too! TV Chef Jamie Oliver has called for the government to introduce healthier alternatives to salt on the UK's roads. Speaking at the launch of his new campaign, he said it was a 'crying shame' that the nation's children had to walk and drive to school on unhealthily treated roads and pavements which could lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and rusty bike wheels. In his new Channel 4 series, with accompanying book and DVD, Jamie Oliver demonstrates how other condiments can be used to treat frozen surfaces including cracked black pepper and freshly chopped herbs. The government has supported the campaign with Transport Minister Lord Adonis saying that using local ingredients such as sorrel and wild garlic would reduce the nation's reliance on imported salt stocks during severe winter weather. However parents at some schools have objected to healthier alternatives being used to on icy school playgrounds. In Rotherham, parents were seen pushing salt cellars and even ready-salted crisps through school fences after their children refused to play football on a school yard treated with rustic French mustard vinaigrette. Despite the criticisms, many councils have backed the idea and later episodes of the show will reveal how Hampstead and Highgate have now fully replaced salt across the borough with shaved parmesan and torn basil leaves, although it admits it may have to maintain stocks of freshly milled Maldon sea salt for emergencies. In other news a driver and four pedestrians were seriously injured after a car mounted the pavement after skidding on a redcurrant and balsamic glaze outside a school in Islington. |
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09 Jan 10 - 06:05 AM (#2807340) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Backwoodsman ROFLMAO Ralphie! |
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09 Jan 10 - 06:40 AM (#2807362) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Rasener Nice one Ralphie :-) Good idea Kat and thanks |
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09 Jan 10 - 06:43 AM (#2807363) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Roger the Skiffler Jagz, Ascot closed today & tomorrow, bands will be rescheduled in April. Ihope Tuesday's blues night will go ahead, but will have to check website at last minute. RtS |
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09 Jan 10 - 08:00 AM (#2807403) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: melodeonboy I lent my sleigh to Father Christmas and the bugger hasn't returned it yet! I've therefore had to cancel this evening's (9th. Jan.) Jumbo Gumbo gig at The Swan in Maidstone. |
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09 Jan 10 - 08:29 AM (#2807411) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Valmai Goodyear Ruth wrote; 'On the other hand, you can't move for hot cross buns at Sainsbury's. Clearly these do not fit the category of a cold-weather comfort food.' The HCBs I've been buying from Sainsburys lately are labelled WHITE HOT CROSS BUNS so they ought to be just the job for these temperatures. TheSnail wrote: 'Apparently there have been huge increases in the sales of thermal underwear , cat litter and condoms.' Good news for folk music - a return to people making their own entertainment. Hils has already touched on this, but I'll just repeat that the Lewes Saturday Folk Club is closed tonight. Valmai (Lewes) |
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09 Jan 10 - 10:02 AM (#2807456) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: melodeonboy Why do shops insist on calling them "hot cross buns" when they'e obviously cold? Perhaps that's why the buns are cross! |
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09 Jan 10 - 10:04 AM (#2807459) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Valmai Goodyear Crumpets are obviously good for us because they're hole food. |
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09 Jan 10 - 12:31 PM (#2807553) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Micca Valmai, Ruth I think you are both ROTTEN!! I've Just cpme in from the shops and you have got me thinking "Crumpets", Oh Bugger!!! |
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09 Jan 10 - 12:38 PM (#2807556) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: treewind January 10 (Sunday) - Suffolk Day of Bluegrass and Folk at Kersey Mill, Suffolk - CANCELLED (sorry for interrupting the conversation so rudely - you can get back to your tea and crumpets now) Anahata |
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10 Jan 10 - 04:17 AM (#2808049) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Ralphie hi Anahata. I wouldn't worry. A list of cancelled gigs by itself would make for depressing reading! Also it keeps the thread at the top of the pile (which is what I've just done come to think of it!) Cheers Ralphie |
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10 Jan 10 - 06:30 AM (#2808104) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Andy Jackson Can anyone else think of a connection between lack of crumpet and increased sales of condoms? |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:48 AM (#2808147) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Fidjit Her I am geting to a gig Swedish style. Ok it was only for a practice, but I got there eventually. Chas |
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10 Jan 10 - 08:40 AM (#2808176) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Tim Leaning Grimsby FC is a singers/players night and Anna Shannon re scheduled. |
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10 Jan 10 - 09:08 AM (#2808198) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Vic Smith This from Ian Anderson Julian Gaskell & His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Sunday, 10 January 2010 Doors 7pm, on-stage 9pm The Green Note, 106 Parkway, London NW1 7AN. www.greennote.co.uk Sorry to report, this has had to be cancelled because of the weather making it impossible for the band to get up from Cornwall. We hope to reschedule. |
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10 Jan 10 - 09:11 AM (#2808201) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Vic Smith This from Kevin Sheils Walthamstow Folk - Bob Fox 10 Jan Bob Fox CANCELLED! Sorry – due to the weather we've decided to reschedule Bob for later in the year. We do apologise for any inconvenience. Come along anyway and we'll make our own entertainment with an informal singaround! |
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10 Jan 10 - 09:13 AM (#2808205) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Vic Smith This from John Byng:- Dear Horsham Folk Club members and friends It will come as no surprise to learn that Horsham club on Sunday is cancelled. We will try and schedule Liz Simcock for another day. Lewes on Saturday is also cancelled but Charlwood on Monday is likely to go ahead for those that can get there. Gary Holder's club has also cancelled the Mike Hatchard concert on Saturday. |
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10 Jan 10 - 12:23 PM (#2808349) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Surreysinger This from West Surrey Folk Consortium (sorry Vic, couldn't resist following your style) The Music Institute club had booked Pete Coe as our guest for this Friday, 8th January.Unfortunately due to ill health Pete's visit to the club has had to be postponed. Because of the additional uncertainty over the weather we have therefore decided to cancel the club night - but we will be open for Carole and Alan Prior on the 22nd. P.S. We are also looking for a replacement caller for Pete Coe so our barn dance at Godalming with the Watch on Saturday 16th can go ahead as planned. More news on that when we have ascertained whether we can get a caller - with details of who that caller is to be. |
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10 Jan 10 - 03:38 PM (#2808505) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Mo the caller Stockton Heath Country dance club near Warrington are not meeting this week. And from the Time Bandits Just to let you know that our evening at Folk at the Prospect has been cancelled due to the weather. If you are thinking of going along anyway, I would check with the organiser, Roger Hanslip as it is apparently very icy over there. Check the website: http://www.folkattheprospect.co.uk/ That club is in Runcorn. |
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10 Jan 10 - 04:58 PM (#2808563) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Martin Cockersdale's gig at Sharps Folk Club has been postponed until 26th January. The 12th January will be a singers' night. |
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10 Jan 10 - 08:39 PM (#2808707) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post From: GUEST Ahhh....
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11 Jan 10 - 02:21 AM (#2808819) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,Ralphie Hey Fidjit. What an exciting life you lead! At least your snow is cleaner than ours! |
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11 Jan 10 - 08:10 AM (#2808957) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: kerry and Mandy the star inn romney marsh kent 12th january is cancelled due to weather. back again on the 9th of febuary. weather permiting.lol thanks kerry and mandy |
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11 Jan 10 - 08:31 AM (#2808968) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Surreysinger Re the Godalming Borough Hall barn dances - a quick note to say that this WILL go ahead. The Watch will be providing the music, and Philip Bassindale will be stepping into Pete Coe's vacant position on Saturday night in Godalming. See the Electric Voices website for further details on how to obtain tickets. |
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11 Jan 10 - 09:30 AM (#2809012) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band "ELSIE`S BAND" at "The Crown", Otford, Thurs., Jan.14th. Due to the uncertainty of the weather later this week it was decide to cancel and re-scheduled for Oct. |
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11 Jan 10 - 09:53 AM (#2809030) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Willa Cockersdale can not make it to the Forester's Arms, Beverley, tonight. |
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13 Jan 10 - 05:02 AM (#2810726) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: GUEST This From Roland Walls Black Swan Folk Club E-Newsflash 113 12th January 2010 EMBER CANCELLED Singers Night instead, 14th January Sadly, Ember have had to cancel their performance at the folk club this Thursday. Emily and Rebecca had originally planned a week of folk club shows around the north of England beginning last Saturday, as part of their "farewell" tour before they part company. One by one the other northern venues have been cancelling their bookings on account of the bad weather and by today York was the only one left. Since Ember are based in remote west Wales, it is simply not viable for them to travel all the way to Yorkshire for a single show and so, reluctantly, they rang me this afternoon to say they were pulling out. I was disappointed but fully appreciated their predicament. Those of you who had pre-booked Ember tickets through WeGotTickets should receive formal email notification of the cancellation from them tomorrow and your ticket money should be refunded to your bank account in a few days time. As usual when we have a short notice cancellation, we prefer to fill the evening with an open Singers & Musicians Night, rather than trying to find a last-minute replacement act. Consequently, all you local performers take note, we have an EXTRA open house session on Thursday evening. We'll kick off around 8.30 as usual, and Susie Fox will be acting as MC. Admission will be at the standard Singers Night rate of £2.50 full / £1.50 concessions / £1 performers. The "normal" Singers Night follows on 21st January, then Isambarde on 28th January, then the York Residents Festival "Sunday Afternoon Folk" event on 31st January from 2pm – all of these at the Black Swan Inn. Roland rolandwalls@yahoo.co.uk / rolandwalls@hotmail.com / 01904 632922 www.blackswanfolkclub.org.uk www.myspace.com/black_swan_folk_club |
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13 Jan 10 - 05:28 AM (#2810737) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Chris Green Hi all Jez Lowe's gig at Maudslay Thursday in Coventry tomorrow night (14th) will not be going ahead due lots of snow. We're working on rescheduling it and will keep you posted! Cheers Chris |
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13 Jan 10 - 09:18 AM (#2810860) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: Vic Smith This from Chris Davis Hi everyone, Well, it looks like I spoke too soon when I sent out last night's message about tonight's Willows - unfortunately, once again, with the fresh snow that's fallen, the weather conditions are forcing us to cancel tonight. :( Whilst the snow that's fallen is reasonably light, somebody reported to us that the main car park that leads into Arundel Football Club (i.e., the big public car park, not the Football Club's own car park) hadn't been gritted and was very treacherous. We wanted to check this out for ourselves so this morning my Dad went to look at it - he's just returned from looking it over and has confirmed that the conditions are extremely dangerous. He actually had to use second gear to get back out of the car park, otherwise he would have been stuck in there! The frustrating thing about this is that the new snowfall, whilst a pain, is not actually causing that much trouble on the roads where we are - it is purely the fact that the car park is so unsafe. However, we do not feel that it would be safe for anybody to try and traverse it tonight, and so we're once again forced to cancel! :( Attached to this e-mail are a couple of photographs showing the car park, so you guys can see what we're talking about! :) Please know that this is not a decision that we take lightly - as I mentioned last week, since my family & I have been running the Willows at the end of 2001, prior to last week we've never cancelled an evening before - not even when my Dad had his heart attack! So, to cancel two in a row really goes against the grain, particularly when people have been saying to me today how much they hope tonight goes ahead - but, we feel it would be irresponsible to run given the dangerous conditions present at the car park that you have to go through in order to get into the Football Club itself, and so with very heavy hearts have taken the decision to cancel. :( Fortunately all the weather forecasts predict that the snow is on the way out (hooray!) and we are cautiously optimistic that we might *finally* be able to kick off the Willows' 2010 programme next Wednesday! :) Thanks for your understanding, and apologies to anyone for any disappointment caused. Best wishes, Chris Davis The Willows Folk Club Arundel, West Sussex www.willowsfolkclub.org www.myspace.com/willowsfolkclub |
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13 Jan 10 - 10:09 AM (#2810908) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post here From: bubblyrat Marlow Bottom Acoustic Club session tonight ,at the Prince Albert, in Frieth, is now most decidedly snowed off !! Sorry !! Roger & Karen |
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14 Jan 10 - 08:01 AM (#2811687) Subject: RE: UK Cancellations due to weather - please post From: johnadams The cancellations continue and this time it's Pete Coe's gig at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club, West Yorkshire, tonight, Thursday 14th of January. The gig will be rescheduled for later in the year. In the meantime, there's an opportunity to catch up with Pete, supported by some of his folk music students from Huddersfield University, at Bird's Edge Village Hall on Saturday 23rd January . |
