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We’re up in Preston with WeatherGirl’s Mum for the holidays. Bandwidth here at her house is limited and at least mildly awkward, so there probably won’t be much posting from here.<\/p>\n

The snow shot is from Morris a couple of years ago – the word is that they’re definitely gonna have snow on the ground for Xmas. It’s quite cold for the UK up here in Preston, but nothing on what it’s like in Minnesota. It’s a bit below freezing at night and heavy frost sometimes lasting the whole day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re up in Preston with WeatherGirl’s Mum for the holidays. Bandwidth here at her house is limited and at least mildly awkward, so there probably won’t be much posting from here. The snow shot is from Morris a couple of years ago – the word is that they’re definitely gonna have snow on the ground … Continue reading “A bit of holiday quiet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,873,122,44],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-weather"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":761,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/24\/happy-xmas-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":759,"position":0},"title":"Happy Xmas Eve :-)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"24 Dec 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Just before we came up to Preston for the holidays I was able to spend some time taking photos in the beautiful frost we'd been having in Colchester. 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