Frosty ?

[Nigella]

More frosts possible this week  >:(

Just as I was started to get excited  :(

[Nigella]

[Doris_Pinks]

I shall get my thermals back out then! :(   

[Roy Bham UK]

 :o Sheer neer a clout til May is out :o ;D

[tim]

The May has been out for 3 weeks!!

[Roy Bham UK]

Why I wonder did they not say Sheer ne'er a clout til the may blossom is out ??? I searched Google when Merry Tiller said same and could not find anything that mentioned it to be blossom ???

[Georgie]

I was always told it meant until May was finished ie it was June, but that was when I lived in the frozen north - north of Watford Gap you understand!   ;)

G xx

[Roy Bham UK]

 ;D Snap ;D

[Amazin]

Ah, I feel another update coming:

Keep thy thermals on
Till May be gone

Oh someone shoot me now...

[ruudbarb]

Why I wonder did they not say Sheer ne'er a clout til the may blossom is out ??? I searched Google when Merry Tiller said same and could not find anything that mentioned it to be blossom ???

Hi Roy - the May is of course the hawthorn blossom and therefore doesn't need 'blossom' added as it would literally mean 'til the may may be out.  Or may not if it's not then it's mayn't....... ??? ??? ???  Brain hurting again. 8)

[CotswoldLass]

Don't know the sayings but yesterday was in garden in bikini, today in jumper......

[Merry Tiller]

‘Ne’er caste a clout ‘til May be out’ refers to May blossom (hawthorn, ...) rather than the month of May. The advice of country folk in this saying was to make sure to keep your vest on (clout meaning a vest or undergarment) until the May blossom was on the hedgerows â€" which these days happens in April rather than May, more often than not. This would indicate that the weather had really warmed up!

It's true :P

[legless]

but on a positive note the wind is changing on wednesday apparently which should warm things up (although it'll probably be wetter but hey, you can't have everything and i think i'd rather have rain)

[tim]

Thank you, Clodders & MT!!

[djbrenton]

I follow metcheck avidly and it seems to be pretty accurate. They've got tonight frosty but then it just gets warmer and warmer for the rest of May.

[Roy Bham UK]

Just found this codswallop on this site http://www.devonshirebabe.com/index.htm
Although it does say click here to read some interesting facts about the month of May. ;D

To wash blankets in May is considered unlucky, and there is a saying 'Ne'er cast a clout 'til May is out', which means don't leave off your wooly underwear until the month of May is past! :o :P ;D

Thank you Georgie ;D

[tim]

Lucky we're all so broad minded!!

[kitty]

i sew meself into me vest from september to july.. ;)
a bikini has not passed this threshold for many a moon........



i still get letters of thanks from the neighbours ;D

[Georgie]

This thread has made me  ;D after a grim day at work.  Thanks folks.

G xx

[who hadn't realised she was taking sides but thank goodness it's all light-heated - there are other boards where this have meant war!    ::) ]

[ruudbarb]

i sew meself into me vest from september to july.. ;)
a bikini has not passed this threshold for many a moon........

Hi Kitty - you forgot to mention the goose fat smeared all over prior to sewing up............ ::) ::) ::)

[ruudbarb]

This thread has made me  ;D after a grim day at work.  Thanks folks.

G xx

[who hadn't realised she was taking sides but thank goodness it's all light-heated - there are other boards where this have meant war!    ::) ]

'Light heated' - WOW!  I'll have some of that for me greenie if it's cheap.......... :o :o :o