Poetry (in Ocean)

And now the Shipping Forecast, issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at 06.00 hrs GMT today.

Viking
North Utsire
South Utsire
Forties
Cromarty
Forth
Tyne
Dogger
Fisher
German Bight
Humber
Thames
Dover
Wight
Portland
Plymouth
Biscay
Trafalgar
FitzRoy (formerly Finisterre)
Sole
Lundy
Fastnet
Irish Sea
Shannon
Rockall
Malin
Hebrides
Bailey
Fair Isle
Faeroes
Southeast Iceland

Snow

As the Sydney mercury continues it's inexhorable rise to a forecast weekend high of 44 degrees. The images of London smothered in snow bring back beautiful memories of sliding on a beer tray down the wish tower, sliding the car all the way up the A1 and walking over suicide bridge at The Archway to look out over London.

Now, I'm not complaining about the sunshine but...