I was looking up what to write about November from my ‘Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady’ and I discovered that November 11th used to be the date regarded as the beginning of winter.
‘If there’s ice in November that will bear a duck,
There’ll be nothing after, but sludge and muck.’
If we get any frost here at all officially it’s not until after the November 15th . The first year we moved here snow got into the roof. We discovered that it doesn’t officially snow here and builders weren’t obliged to put in any protection; the regulations were changed the year after.
My Mum used to have that book, she loved it!
ReplyDeleteI would miss it if there was never any snow, but my favorite type of snow is on post cards.
ReplyDeleteCas
Se have years of almost no snow, and years of way too much snow.
It seems you got there a bit earlier; always wrong to be right ahead of time... ;))
ReplyDeleteWe very rearely have snow in November. usually waits until end of Dec or January. It is getting really cold though.
ReplyDeleteJohn g: I love it too, there is so much in it, poetry, quotes, as well as information on birds animals and plants....
ReplyDeleteCas: i prefer to look out of the window at the snow.
Gmg: A lot of us got caught out here that winter.
Mary Lou: It snowed the years that the boys were born around February!