On the way to work, this is the Grassmarket at rush hour. People started walking or using public transport (such as there was) instead of trying to dig their cars out.
The Castle.
Close-up. Castle Rock started looking like a black-and-white photo.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
More snow in Edinburgh, part 2.
Since we've had a thaw (ish), and it's meant to snow again tonight, I thought I'd actually get round to posting the rest of my snowy photos.
On the way to work, this is the Grassmarket at rush hour. People started walking or using public transport (such as there was) instead of trying to dig their cars out.
The Castle.
Close-up. Castle Rock started looking like a black-and-white photo.
On the way to work, this is the Grassmarket at rush hour. People started walking or using public transport (such as there was) instead of trying to dig their cars out.
The Castle.
Close-up. Castle Rock started looking like a black-and-white photo.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Warm and Cosy
Look where I'm currently working:
A Proper Library. It smells really good too - proper old books and wood sort of smell.
Look at the ceiling and the gallery.
From the doorway. I'm sitting in that chair at the table in the window. It's next to the radiator, so I'm really warm, and have a lovely view of a snowy street.
A proper look at the bookcases and gallery. You can see the entrance to the gallery (sort of disguised) in the corner - one of the doors is slightly open.
This isn't the view I'm looking at, it's the view from the room next door.
Close-up of Well Court.
Lucky me!
A Proper Library. It smells really good too - proper old books and wood sort of smell.
Look at the ceiling and the gallery.
From the doorway. I'm sitting in that chair at the table in the window. It's next to the radiator, so I'm really warm, and have a lovely view of a snowy street.
A proper look at the bookcases and gallery. You can see the entrance to the gallery (sort of disguised) in the corner - one of the doors is slightly open.
This isn't the view I'm looking at, it's the view from the room next door.
Close-up of Well Court.
Lucky me!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Edinburgh Snow, yet again.
Here's Wednesday's hilarity and frolicking in the snow. Work is being rather entertaining at the moment; we're on the third floor, opposite a street that will never be cleared because it's a dead end. Despite this, there are a group of white van men who seem to have some sort of vendetta going on. They got stuck in the snow on Monday, and since then it seems to have become a matter of Male Pride that they - somehow - get to the Top Of The Road. We've called it the Continuing Saga in the The Story of the Van Men. On Monday and Tuesday's episodes, the Van Men got stuck in the snow, and found shovels. They then cleared the pavements on both sides of the road. They sprinkled grit about, and tried to push one of their vans up the hill. That particular section was cartoonish; four grown men running on the spot (thanks to the ice) trying to push a van up the hill.
On Wednesday, they brought out The Big Guns. Not to be outdone by some piddling snow and a piddling little slope, they came armed with a mini digger. Producing some rope, they tied the digging arm to their trailer, and then backed up the hill, towing the trailer. They repeated the exercise in exactly the same configuration to go back down the hill. Luckily the trailer was now empty, and the snow thick - otherwise the large trailer would have crushed the slow moving teeny digger.
Aside from the Van Men Saga, there have been a selection of people with Silly 1.3 litre cars thinking that they're actually driving landrovers, and getting stuck. Mostly these are Young Poseur Males, who then gesticulate a lot at each other. Or they ruin their engines by sitting and revving them (while driving us crazy), despite getting nowhere.
The silliest thing I've seen so far was a gentleman dressed in a long tweed overcoat (unbuttoned), and very expensive looking tailored suit. He was wearing soft brown leather shoes, long and pointy (fashionable no doubt, though impractical), which had leather soles. Leather soles! When the pavements are wet and slushy! Good grief, they don't even give decent grip in those situations. (Though suede soles on dance shoes are amazing!)
Anyway. Tuesday night we got about 30cm overnight in the city centre. Here are some pictures.
Looking back the way I came.
This photo and the one below are taken standing in the same place, looking in different directions. Snow in one direction, blue sky in the other (just at the right time for walking to work!)
Heading in this direction. The road hadn't been ploughed yet.
Needs to be dug out.
Side road. This is what it looks like when no snow has been shovelled at all. This is nothing though - twenty minutes from here on foot, they have nearly 2 feet of snow.
Morning sunlight, plus castle.
This turrety tenement is one I don't look at twice, normally, but but with a dusting of snow it becomes rather fairy-tale-esque.
Another side road - this one isn't a dead end though.
Approaching snow shower behind the Parliament and Holyrood Palace. Good thing I'll be in work by the time it reaches us!
Holyrood Road. This one's been treated for snow - this is the general condition of roads in the city centre.
Blizzard!
More blizzard!
Someone stole the outside.
Traffic Lights
Sunset: the clouds that were high enough to pick up the sun turned a lovely shade of pinkish.
Pretty.
I like the way the snow is sliding down this roof.
It's usually been cold overnight, then warmed up enough during the day to make things get a bit drippy, then it freezes again. This results in lots of nice looking icicles:
Drippy traffic lights.
Pretty drippy lights, at twilight.
Drippy lights with Calton Hill and a snowstorm in the background.
Looking up at the icicles on my kitchen window. The snow slipped down the roof, and they ended up pointing in the window.
From inside - they're pretty sizeable. The biggest one is about 40cm.
More icicles on my roof.
Arty shot, icicles on the bedroom window.
I caught a drip! I'm SO pleased with this one, it's just good luck, I didn't try and take a photo of the drip. It's so spherical!
Not dripping.
All the houses have icicles.
I'm pleased with this one - icicles lit by a streetlight.
This building has plenty of icicles.
Lots of the icicles seem to be curved, it makes the houses look like they've grown teeth.
My window again. This required a bit of contortion to get, since the sink is right in front of the window.
This is what happens when you use the flash and have the white balance set to cloudy. I rather like the effect though.
These are the icicles that are trying to come and join me. It's not a trick of perspective - they are actually touching the wood on the window.
From inside.
Now I am off to recline on my couch under a couple of blankets, and crochet. It's currently -8.5C in Edinburgh, and still dropping. We're supposed to have a low of -9 tonight, but I suspect we may reach double figures. Time to put the heating on...
On Wednesday, they brought out The Big Guns. Not to be outdone by some piddling snow and a piddling little slope, they came armed with a mini digger. Producing some rope, they tied the digging arm to their trailer, and then backed up the hill, towing the trailer. They repeated the exercise in exactly the same configuration to go back down the hill. Luckily the trailer was now empty, and the snow thick - otherwise the large trailer would have crushed the slow moving teeny digger.
Aside from the Van Men Saga, there have been a selection of people with Silly 1.3 litre cars thinking that they're actually driving landrovers, and getting stuck. Mostly these are Young Poseur Males, who then gesticulate a lot at each other. Or they ruin their engines by sitting and revving them (while driving us crazy), despite getting nowhere.
The silliest thing I've seen so far was a gentleman dressed in a long tweed overcoat (unbuttoned), and very expensive looking tailored suit. He was wearing soft brown leather shoes, long and pointy (fashionable no doubt, though impractical), which had leather soles. Leather soles! When the pavements are wet and slushy! Good grief, they don't even give decent grip in those situations. (Though suede soles on dance shoes are amazing!)
Anyway. Tuesday night we got about 30cm overnight in the city centre. Here are some pictures.
Looking back the way I came.
This photo and the one below are taken standing in the same place, looking in different directions. Snow in one direction, blue sky in the other (just at the right time for walking to work!)
Heading in this direction. The road hadn't been ploughed yet.
Needs to be dug out.
Side road. This is what it looks like when no snow has been shovelled at all. This is nothing though - twenty minutes from here on foot, they have nearly 2 feet of snow.
Morning sunlight, plus castle.
This turrety tenement is one I don't look at twice, normally, but but with a dusting of snow it becomes rather fairy-tale-esque.
Another side road - this one isn't a dead end though.
Approaching snow shower behind the Parliament and Holyrood Palace. Good thing I'll be in work by the time it reaches us!
Holyrood Road. This one's been treated for snow - this is the general condition of roads in the city centre.
Blizzard!
More blizzard!
Someone stole the outside.
Traffic Lights
Sunset: the clouds that were high enough to pick up the sun turned a lovely shade of pinkish.
Pretty.
I like the way the snow is sliding down this roof.
It's usually been cold overnight, then warmed up enough during the day to make things get a bit drippy, then it freezes again. This results in lots of nice looking icicles:
Drippy traffic lights.
Pretty drippy lights, at twilight.
Drippy lights with Calton Hill and a snowstorm in the background.
Looking up at the icicles on my kitchen window. The snow slipped down the roof, and they ended up pointing in the window.
From inside - they're pretty sizeable. The biggest one is about 40cm.
More icicles on my roof.
Arty shot, icicles on the bedroom window.
I caught a drip! I'm SO pleased with this one, it's just good luck, I didn't try and take a photo of the drip. It's so spherical!
Not dripping.
All the houses have icicles.
I'm pleased with this one - icicles lit by a streetlight.
This building has plenty of icicles.
Lots of the icicles seem to be curved, it makes the houses look like they've grown teeth.
My window again. This required a bit of contortion to get, since the sink is right in front of the window.
This is what happens when you use the flash and have the white balance set to cloudy. I rather like the effect though.
These are the icicles that are trying to come and join me. It's not a trick of perspective - they are actually touching the wood on the window.
From inside.
Now I am off to recline on my couch under a couple of blankets, and crochet. It's currently -8.5C in Edinburgh, and still dropping. We're supposed to have a low of -9 tonight, but I suspect we may reach double figures. Time to put the heating on...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
More snow in Edinburgh
Snooooow.
Monday:
Pootling about underneath the castle.
Pretty.
Castle from Princes Street. More snow coming across, which is why the sky is that odd colour. This was about 3ish.
Snow coming in from the left.
Close up, and about to disappear in a blizzard.
These are from this evening.
A selection of hail stone sizes. Teeny tiny ones and ones that were about 6mm across.
Closer. They look like polystyrene balls.
Snow on the roof with craters from Giant Hailstones.
And again.
Attack of the polystyrene! This is out my kitchen window.
It looked like this, though with a teensy bit more snow.
Then it blizzarded.
Then it looked like this.
And this.
Anndd this.
Then it cleared up, having left us with an inch or so of snow in about 20 minutes.
The street next to us.
Wiggly! Watched a large white van failing to make it up the hill. He kept slipping sideways.
Incidentally, I don't know what it is, but whenever it snows at night, there are always packs of young men out and about in the street, howling like werewolves. Could it be that they're secretly Twilight fans? "Aaaawwwooooooooooo!" I do wish they'd shut up...
Monday:
Pootling about underneath the castle.
Pretty.
Castle from Princes Street. More snow coming across, which is why the sky is that odd colour. This was about 3ish.
Snow coming in from the left.
Close up, and about to disappear in a blizzard.
These are from this evening.
A selection of hail stone sizes. Teeny tiny ones and ones that were about 6mm across.
Closer. They look like polystyrene balls.
Snow on the roof with craters from Giant Hailstones.
And again.
Attack of the polystyrene! This is out my kitchen window.
It looked like this, though with a teensy bit more snow.
Then it blizzarded.
Then it looked like this.
And this.
Anndd this.
Then it cleared up, having left us with an inch or so of snow in about 20 minutes.
The street next to us.
Wiggly! Watched a large white van failing to make it up the hill. He kept slipping sideways.
Incidentally, I don't know what it is, but whenever it snows at night, there are always packs of young men out and about in the street, howling like werewolves. Could it be that they're secretly Twilight fans? "Aaaawwwooooooooooo!" I do wish they'd shut up...
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