too much cloud this morning to see Venus, but it has been very, very bright in the mornings

Yeah, I saw your Venus shot yesterday.

My star map shows six planets lined up pretty close to each other (within 45 degrees of something) close to the horizon in the morning. Hoping that in a few days we will be able to see four of them in the sky. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. That would be first for me.

nothing in my bit of Tayside yet

Lovely new snow cover last night 🙂

(true? (= :sner :snow))

?

For Danish,

(= :sner :snowing)
(= :sne :snow)
(= :sneen :the-snow)

In Dutch we have:

(= :sneeuw :snow)
(= "het sneeuwt" "it is snowing")

Yet more proof, as if any were needed, that Manchester is on the correct side of the Pennines! 😉

@U08ABGP70 there is a right side of the Pennines, which has Yorkshire. The other side is clearly wrong.

... As if there's such a word as barm-cake ;-P

You think you know a guy... I am prepared to agree to disagree, but I do need to refute this idea that Yorkshire is on the correct side of the Pennines at least the once... Lancashire, is the correct side of the Pennines, the promised land of joy and wonder that has everything going for it, specifically Hotpot, Oven Bottom Muffins, Barm Cakes, Lancashire Cheese, the Fylde Coast, The Trough of Bowland, and many more great and distinct offerings, not least of which is Peter Kaye, Rick Astley, George Formby and Barbara Castle

I'd blame Boris or Rishi.

or one of the other ones.

Truss

is 44 days enough to cause this?

44 too many

I guess you are right (of course)