Comments on: Brrrrrrrrrrrr

By: Kennamatic

Kennamatic — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:56:34 +0000

Meanwhile, here in ther big city (London) although temperatures have dropped to single figures, frost is nowhere to be seen. Hurrah for all that carbon dioxide keeping the atmosphere fuggy.

By: Elle

Elle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:50:48 +0000

You mean we get to have Autumn? I thought we had two seasons; wet and very wet.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:00:17 +0000

Didn’t you get that memo? I flipped the switch on the 1st and we had our first frost.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:58:06 +0000

MisssyM, I refer you to Chris Brookmyre’s description of Aberdeen at the start of “A big boy did it and ran away”.

The basic gist is that Aberdeen calls itself the Silver City, and that was a euphemism of turd-polishing dimensions. It’s grey. All granite. G-R-E-Y. If Aberdeen is silver, then keech is copper-tone.

Also (still quoting/paraphrasing) Aberdeen markets itself as “Scotlands fourth city”, which was a bit of an eye-opener as there’s a major drop-off after the first two, and it *still* puts it behind the ungodly shit-hole known as Dundee…

Can’t think why it stuck in my mind (*cough*), having only been through Aberdeen once.

By: MisssyM

MisssyM — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:19:52 +0000

We had frost bang on the 1st. Still on the cars at 9am, it was. They don’t call Aberdeen, “Gaelic for Hypothermia” for nowt.

But we still didn’t switch our central heating on til the 2nd. How hard are we? (or, how cheap are we..?)