They warned us about the gulf stream. Climate change deniers take note.

You get the frozen spiderwebs when you get an icy fog. We've had a lot of that up here lately. Obviously the spiders aren't building webs just now, except inside, where it's nice and warm (thank goodness for double glazing!), and I'm not going to disturb them, so the affected webs are usually old and broken, but it's an amazing thing to see anyhow.

I'd not go out on the canal myself. I've let Berkeley go out and scoot on the ice, but only where I've seen people have been. The water in the Forth of Clyde canal actually runs rather briskly, and ice can be unpredictable under those circumstances-- and near the little dock things and the locks it is thin to nonexistent. Not really worth the risk.