Tis good to be back, given the amount of snow i had last year even i got sick of it, hoping for same again this year 

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'Noon all. New to TWO but not the weather, hopefully a few 'familiar faces' in here too, just wanted to say hi!

So who nicked our Winter?........... 🙄

Hi Coast.  Welcome and do enjoy...

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Cheers ART, I'm sure once I get used to the different knobs and bells, I'll get used to the format. Looking forward to contributing convective and storm related stuff -we seem to have enough of the latter recently.

Hello folks - some months since I have been on the forum. Sorry to seem antisocial. A lot on with the Bees etc. It has been an excellent honey year, one of our best in 40 years here.

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Hi Roger. Karen and I have eaten stacks of Manuka honey in the last few months. It's expensive, but we've been having it in hot drinks with lemon or on toast. Apparently it's rammed with high nutritional and vitamin properties and virtually medicinal? Either way it tastes good. 

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Hi Matty - good to see you are about. I have quite a few customers who have a medicinal purpose for buying local honey - linked to hay fever or other seasonal complaints. We batch our honey so we know when it was extracted and roughly what flowers may have been incorporated into it. The story goes that if you eat honey from the previous year at the date you were previously affected, you might give your immune system a useful tweak with the offending pollen it contains. Some folks swear by it. The flaw in this thinking is that hay fever is more often than not triggered by wind-pollinated plants like grasses which are not much interest to bees. But it is worth a try, as you may possibly be being affected by other pollen species allergens. I can't comment on manuka honey other than to say that I am told its composition is not that different to our own British honeys - but see how you get on and judge from that. I will be interested to have your take on it.

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Thanks Roger. Manuka seems to be kind of a raw honey. It has little bits of honeycomb in it. Rather thick in consistency. Really enjoy any honey though. On toast it is amazing. 

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Honey prices vary a lot. London prices are astronomical. Lincolnshire honey sells locally for about £3.50 per lb, but you could easily pay two or three times that in some counties. The other thing to look out for is beekeepers who jar their honey in smaller than usual jars - they are not on the fiddle, the weight will be clearly given - but you can easily assume you are getting a bargain when you are not. What you need is a tame local beekeeper - I bet there are several in your area. I think I shall go and put on the toaster......

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Hi all I was a member on here many moons ago but forgot all my login details. So have registered here using my Netweather username which some of you may recognise. Anyway as that forum seems to be sliding in the wrong direction for all the wrong reasons thought I would see if this forum is a tad more mature and light hearted??

Yes and no.  We all have to be in bed by 8pm, there will be no laughing on Sundays and use of the word snow is banned unless you have made over 10,000 posts.   Apart from that, it's okay

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Welcome back Cheeky Monkey 

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WELCOME BACK TO THE FOLD. 

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Hi everyone im a newbie so apologies if I ask silly questions just trying to get the hang of all the models etc really interesting ... I was a lurker on Net weather but I found it so confusing the different opinions on one model some say mild others go for cold ... Never posted on there as I didn't want my head biting 😁 anyway hi 🙋 x
Jessica x

Thankyou Martyn xxx

Hello everyone.

Decided I should register at long last... I don't care to imagine how many years I've been looking at this forum! I might offer the odd uniformed opinion here and there, but I really haven't got much of a clue.

That's what my application to be a forecaster said anyway! 😉

 

YOU ARE NOT ALONE   !!!!  Welcome...

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I'm on the scrounge- I have a Maplin NG96Y station, whch I believe is a Watson machine rebadged. I have lost the battery cover from the display , and it won't work without it. Maplin say they don't carry this as a spare- does anyone have an old machine they are not using that they can donate me the battery door cover from?? Thanks in advance x

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I've been a lurker on here for a long time (generally only looking in at winter time). I've signed in today as normal only to find all the colour gone from the forum - i.e. it goes monochrome once I sign in. Any reason for this? I've tried amending my profile to no avail....

Any help to get me back into to glorious technicolour would be fab.

Cheers,

Gary.

Dear Matty et al

 

After reading posts for 9 years I finally joined up & am having a rare old time.

I scoured the FAQs but this one has rather foxed me I'm afraid: I notice posters often place excerpts from previous posts to help readers focus on the part they're responding to- it's a rectangular pecked-line box. Are you able to tell me how to use this feature please?

Kind regards

Bertie

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Back after a long break (formerly Larachmor) Many familiar names still around, whilst one or two are noticeably absent!!

Much improved look to the website.

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Hello

A plea! A plea!

I notice no replies have been given on this thread to newbies since February. Is this defunct, can anyone say? I am still keen to find out how to post boxed quotes on other threads and I'm not precious about the reply coming from an administrator.

The speed at which threads are recycled on here means this plea might only be visible for moments, so here's hoping...

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Hi Bertwhistle - no the thread isn't defunct, not every newbie posts in here! Can you clarify what your problem is with quotes?

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Sorry - just read your earlier post - went in the wrong order! Have you tried using the Quote button to get the set up you want?

 

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I remember you well from the old days! Welcome back

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