Today finally saw the temperature drop a little. The last couple of weeks had seen daytime temperatures hover between 28 and 36 degrees centigrade, where as today was a lot more comfortable, only just break the twenty mark.
Sadly, the last couple of weeks have been missing one heat element - hot water. Because other people [...]

OK, so it is 15th April, and quite a few weeks ago, all the snow and ice had already melted in this town. By last week, temperatures had recently just hit the low 20s (centigrade). Then today the weather turned on us - it is currently snowing quite heavily again, enough to settle on the [...]

Before I forget, I came across the following pictures over at the BBC News website. Thought you might like to see them?

So, no great surprise that none of my friends got round to reading the previous posts yet, but I see most of them on messenger, so I’ll assume no one’s house or car got [...]

Realising that the likelihood of anyone commenting on the post re. Britain’s weather any time soon was slim, I decided to check in with Mum & John, Dad and Nick. All were OK, though John did get a bit blown around by the wind. Probably because he went down with another photographer friend to the [...]

How are people? For those readers not in the UK, the south of the country is currently being hit by quite a bad serious of storms. Click on over here for a BBC report on it so far.

So, if you have a moment (and electricity and a working phone line ), leave [...]

The last couple of days have been reasonably mild here in Astana - and with the lack of fresh snowfall today, some of the ice and snowdrifts are starting to melt. It does not look so pretty, as you can see all the dust and car pollution in the grey snow, however, the lack of [...]

The mild weather has now stuck around Kazakhstan for a while, meaning a lot of the snow (and thankfully ice) has melted. This then leaves the conundrum of what sort of footwear to don before going out. Tomorrow (assuming my student is back from his trip) I will be walking to work again, and whilst [...]

As I previously mentioned, today we had the first proper snowfall of this winter. It has settled on the ground, and in places already formed quite impressive drifts. I remembered to dig out my hat, gloves and winter boots, but forgot my scarf - by the time I noticed, it was already too late to [...]

Just woke up to see the world blanketed in snow. Although there have been a few attempts already, this is the first time it has properly settled. Although it looks nicer, this now means getting properly dressed before leaving the house (even I admit a shirt and light jacket aren’t best for walking in now [...]

Check the IGotLucky page linked to at the top for a few links to posts on the recent flooding my home country (and in fact home county) had. The water was cut off for a while, and even when turned on, was not suitable for washing in or drinking, even if boiled. The problem was [...]

As per normal, Ira and I went over to her parent’s house on Sunday, where we catch up on the week’s news, have some lunch, potter around the garden. OK, honesty time, I tend to skip the gardening section. Don’t get me wrong, if there is heavy lifting to do, or something that involves manual [...]

If all goes to plan (never a safe assumption when Kazakh businesses are involved), we should finally be getting an air conditioner installed today, or at least have the process started. When it does happen, I will be very glad to have a slightly lower temperature inside the flat. Although it is not quite so [...]

I seem to have a huge surge in visitors, specifically searching for webcams covering the areas affected by the recent flooding.
For some reason www.ChrisMerriman.com is #1 on Google for both webcam glos tewksbury and tewksbury flooding webcam .
As I don’t actually have any links to these sorts of webcams, I thought I would find a [...]

Many thanks to Irina for spotting the following pictures covering the ongoing problems in Gloucestershire with the recent flooding.

Gordon Brown was interviewed in Gloucestershire, regarding the government’s response to the flooding afflicting the country, and Glos. in particular.
This was then followed a reporter in Tewksbury describing how life was right now for its citizens, with serious commentary; the people playing in the water in the background did not help to add any gravity [...]

The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, held a Cobra committee (Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) meeting regarding the response to the national flooding problems. Glos.’s Gold Command emergency response team was represented by Tim Brian - it’s head. He was included in the meeting (via a phone link up) as my home county (Gloucestershire) was one [...]

No, not a general warning to all travellers thinking of visiting the UK, but I am instead referring to the current problems afflicting many areas in England and Wales (not sure on Scotland). Although Mum in Wales is in an area that is marked as effected by some maps I’ve seen, they live quite high [...]

OK, so the memory card has been mostly sorted now. After using four different data recovery programs, I remembered I had a fifth, archived on a DVD somewhere. It was last used about this time in 2006, when John had a CF memory card from his camera, that his old work had botched a recovery [...]

One thing about living in Kazakhstan is the extreme of temperatures - between Summer at its hottest, and Winter at its coldest, there is around 80 degrees (centigrade) difference! (In case you wondered, around plus 40 to minus 40).
So, right now, an electric blanket is truly the last thing on my mind, in fact we [...]

The past couple of weeks have seen temperatures around 30-35 degrees, occasionally reaching for 40. I just spoke to Dad who said Britain has had pretty miserable weather, or Evesham specifically at the very least. This appeared to trigger a big rain storm back here in Astana .
It was actually nice to feel a [...]