The heavy snow shower earlier this morning surprised quite a few of us. Still, it prompted a walk round some Brigg streets for me, rather than de-icing the car.
A few picture opportunities also presented themselves.
Anchorage, in Alaska, is a pretty cold place; its namesake The Anchorage, on Wrawby Road, Brigg, got a taste of North American-style weather today.
Our most famous Brigg export to the arts, Lady Olivier (Joan Plowright), has acted in a number of productions in which snow plays a part (eg Disney's 101 Dalmatians). That gave us an excuse to capture this wintry scene today at her first family home in Central Square.
Back in the 1930s, when she grew up in Brigg, no doubt winters really were winters!
We also feature a snowy Recreation Ground, where the sightscreens on the boundary remind us it's less than two months until the start of the 2010 cricket season. But Lee Fielden, Jack Richards, Gary Smith and the other Brigg Town regulars will be hoping for a significant improvement on today's weather.
Perhaps the White Horse pub could have been re-named the White Out Horse!
You've no idea what a 'white-out' is, Nige!!
ReplyDeleteSome of us more adventurous soul would regularly experience a white-out on top of the summits in the Lake District/Scotland in winter.
Everything is literally white; one cannot see one's hand more than a few inches away from face.
It can be very disorientating and the only way one can tell one is upright is because you can feel the ground with your feet.
Sounds are muffled and one can quickly lose track of other people.
The other times I've experienced a 'white-out' is when I've been in a small aeroplane which has flown into dense cloud. Some folks can be fooled that they are upright, when actually the plane is upside-down - the instruments say one thing and one senses mislead you into feeling something else.
If you ever read the diaries of Captain Scott, the entry for Capt. Oates doesn't actually say, I'm just going out - I may be sometime' - giving the impression that Oatsey was going to sacrifice himself so the others could have more food...the entry says something like, 'Capt 0ates went out for a piss..and he's been some time.' (We British do like to embellish things)
Poor old Oatsey was probaably caught out in a 'white-out' and just couldn't find his way back to the tent!!