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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: TG on March 09, 2008, 12:25:49 PM
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The news is full of stories about how we are about to cop it at the hands of mother nature tonight. Travel warnings, flood warnings, its going to piss it down warnings etc.
Will this all turn out to be a storm in a teacup? Or are we all going to die?
Post your weather reports here over the next 24 hours or so and we will see if the weather man is a canute or not.
Mind you, my cheap Wilko's barometer is dropping like a stone. eeek:
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The news is full of stories about how we are about to cop it at the hands of mother nature tonight. Travel warnings, flood warnings, its going to piss it down warnings etc.
Will this all turn out to be a storm in a teacup? Or are we all going to die?
Post your weather reports here over the next 24 hours or so and we will see if the weather man is a canute or not.
Mind you, my cheap Wilko's barometer is dropping like a stone. eeek:
You are bored aren't you? noooo:
We suffer regular ‘Coptic Gales’ here… next one on the 10th is a big one… scared2:
http://www.paragliding-cyprus.com/coptic_chart.htm
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Forget it. Lets talk about tits instead! happy088
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Forget it. Lets talk about tits instead! happy088
Not another Gordon Brown thread? noooo:
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West Country and West Wales seem to be the ones promised to get the full force.
We will probably be buffeted being as how there is sweet FA between us and the Irish Sea and we are halfway up a mountain facing the coast.
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My stepdaughter is heading back to Cardiff on the train later.
Lets hope she doesnt have to much fun. noooo:
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Nick lives the other side of the Dee Estuary .... also facing the coast but it is closer to him than me. I am about a mile or so as the wind blows .... he is about 20 yards). His house is older by a century or so and shakes even more than mine in the wind so we will both be looking out our insurance docs just in case I 'spect ~ though it's not unknown for us to have two completely different sets of weather. Largely depends on which way the wind is blowing I guess.
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Nick lives the other side of the Dee Estuary .... also facing the coast but it is closer to him than me. I am about a mile or so as the wind blows .... he is about 20 yards). His house is older by a century or so and shakes even more than mine in the wind so we will both be looking out our insurance docs just in case I 'spect ~ though it's not unknown for us to have two completely different sets of weather. Largely depends on which way the wind is blowing I guess.
I suspect that Nick’s will be more calamitous than yours… whistle:
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Nick lives the other side of the Dee Estuary .... also facing the coast but it is closer to him than me. I am about a mile or so as the wind blows .... he is about 20 yards). His house is older by a century or so and shakes even more than mine in the wind so we will both be looking out our insurance docs just in case I 'spect ~ though it's not unknown for us to have two completely different sets of weather. Largely depends on which way the wind is blowing I guess.
I suspect that Nick’s will be more calamitous than yours… whistle:
Dunno .... we lost a chimney and a lot of slates last year. Cost a bloody fortune as the insurance co weaselled their way out of paying for much of it saying that the brickwork exposed by the damage showed signs of weathering. It is rendered (Pebble dash) so how the f*ck was I supposed to have known. Even they had to admit it was not likely that our surveyor would have removed the pebble dash to look at the state of the bricks beneath. They still wouldn't pay out for the repairs though. Only after much argument did they agree to pay to "make safe" which involved a lot of scaffolding having to be put up. They paid for the scaffolding so I got a private builder to do a bodge it and scarper repair to the render and chimney stack.
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Surrey is bathed in sunshine, with no wind. In ten minutes time though, it will be pissing down (again no wind) for about half an hour and then bathed in sunsine again.
Repeat ad infinitum. Wind expected later, not the kind caused by Young's though.
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Drove through hail storm then sleet at Yeovilton, Somerset around 1730. Back home and it's dry. No sign of the wind though
I heard on the radio that government ministers are meeting this evening to discuss the situation. What a load of bollocks! Yesterday it was going to be "the worst storm this century", by this morning it is going to be "the worst this winter".
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The news is full of stories about how we are about to cop it at the hands of mother nature tonight. Travel warnings, flood warnings, its going to piss it down warnings etc.
Will this all turn out to be a storm in a teacup? Or are we all going to die?
Post your weather reports here over the next 24 hours or so and we will see if the weather man is a canute or not.
Mind you, my cheap Wilko's barometer is dropping like a stone. eeek:
;D ;D ;D Christ TG, I reckon you work for Channel 4
'Batten down the hatches'
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Weather panic alert!! The worst storm of the winter is predicted to hit the UK. But I've a couple of worries about this. OK - it is a quiet news day at the moment, but does an approaching North Atlantic depression really merit the near-panic in coverage thus far?
Could all this have anything to do with the fact that it's likely to hit southern (media dominated) Britain? And am I alone in sensing a long-running cry-wolf mentality at work from the Met Office outwards?
There's a feeling that all such weather stories tend to be more violent in the predictions than the reality. Not long ago we had a ludicrous national media feeding frenzy for the North Sea surge.
And what happened? A couple of homes slightly damp around great Yarmouth. The Daily Express has led the charge in much of this obsessing about freaky weather which rarely, if ever, arrives.
My own theory is that the powers that be have never recovered from the psychological damage of the Great Storm a generation ago and have hyped up the warnings in a national mood of bottom-covering ever since.
Not saying it won't happen and that British transport will not grind to a halt at the first sign of a wind-affected twig - but impending doom? Believe it when you see it.
Sorry - got a bit carried away there.
Latest weather reports: http://www.channel4.com/news/weather/
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You didn’t have this weather when Thatch was in power… noooo:
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Surrey is bathed in sunshine, with no wind.
The day in Berks has been the same. whistle:
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You didn’t have this weather when Thatch was in power… noooo:
I blame nuLabour
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You didn’t have this weather when Thatch was in power… noooo:
I blame nuLabour
And the muslims obviously... whistle:
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The problem is that when we had floods etc a few years back everyone shouted that the Govt had not done enough/anything.
This way, by crying wolf everytime there is a drop on the old barometer they have meetings, fill sandbags and generally try to panic everyone and the media laps it up. I bet there are OB units all over the West Country and Wales to bring us "up to the minute" reports.
Doesn't matter what they do. If it rains it rains, if the wind blows it blows ~ there is bugger all we can do to stop it.
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The problem is that when we had floods etc a few years back everyone shouted that the Govt had not done enough/anything.
This way, by crying wolf everytime there is a drop on the old barometer they have meetings, fill sandbags and generally try to panic everyone and the media laps it up. I bet there are OB units all over the West Country and Wales to bring us "up to the minute" reports.
Doesn't matter what they do. If it rains it rains, if the wind blows it blows ~ there is bugger all we can do to stop it.
To the bar! cloud9:
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You didn’t have this weather when Thatch was in power… noooo:
I blame nuLabour
And the muslims obviously... whistle:
You never get this type of weather in the mosgue mate, the weather was always good when that nice Princess Diane was alive
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Bring back the weather czar (Tsar).... Old wotsisname ~ Dennis summatorother. Wilson appointed him ... an ex footy referee .... oh come on you must remember.
Anyway him .... he sorted it. Week after he was appointed to resolve the drought crisis it was pissing down. I always wondered if he did a rain dance in the Cabinet Office or something.
What was his fvcking name?
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Bring back the weather czar (Tsar).... Old wotsisname ~ Dennis summatorother. Wilson appointed him ... an ex footy referee .... oh come on you must remember.
Anyway him .... he sorted it. Week after he was appointed to resolve the drought crisis it was pissing down. I always wondered if he did a rain dance in the Cabinet Office or something.
What was his fvcking name?
Oh… don’t tell me… it’s on the tip of my tongue… confused2:
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Annoying isn't it? Come on DS you must remember.
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Annoying isn't it? Come on DS you must remember.
It did piss down... what was his name? Banghead
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Banghead Banghead Banghead
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Gorrit ~ Howell. Denis Howell.
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
Was this connected with the wind?
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
Was this connected with the wind?
Probably... evil:
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
I still am.
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
Really eeek:
'Course I am MUCH older than you I s'pose.
Let's see now. I was fourteen, it was under Bournemouth Pier, her name was Susan ..... that would make it the summer of 1961
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
I still am.
happy100
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
I still am.
We can soon fix that
Oh look ~ your shoe lace is undone.
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You didn’t have this weather when Thatch was in power… noooo:
Who was in power when we had that great storm thingy then? Now who the feck was it? rubschin: Tip of my tongue..erm...
Its a bugger when u can remember what happened half an hour ago but not 30 years back. '87 wannit?
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Don't change the subject! Tie that lace and be deflowered!
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
I still am.
We can soon fix that
Oh look ~ your shoe lace is undone.
happy001
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Don't change the subject! Tie that lace and be deflowered!
eyes:
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Don't change the subject! Tie that lace and be deflowered!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! eyes:
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Don't change the subject! Tie that lace and be deflowered!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! eyes:
Think of England young man... whistle:
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BM .... have you still got that special barrel in the cellar .... the one with the golden spigot?
I was thinking TG might like to see it ........ whistle:
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Right ~ having got the name I Googled it. Do you know that was way back in 1976?
Christ ....... doesn't time fly?
1976... I was still a virgin... redface:
I still am.
We can soon fix that
Oh look ~ your shoe lace is undone.
lol: lol:
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BM .... have you still got that special barrel in the cellar .... the one with the golden spigot?
I was thinking TG might like to see it ........ whistle:
Yeeessssssss.... eyes:
A special visit to the cellar could be arranged for the boy... whistle:
It must be a secret mind... never tell anyone... noooo:
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Honestly ~ the things we have to do on a stormy night ...... lol:
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BM .... have you still got that special barrel in the cellar .... the one with the golden spigot?
I was thinking TG might like to see it ........ whistle:
Yeeessssssss.... eyes:
A special visit to the cellar could be arranged for the boy... whistle:
It must be a secret mind... never tell anyone... noooo:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
A whole barrell?
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Honestly ~ the things we have to do on a stormy night ...... lol:
;D
How sad are we? lol:
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BM .... have you still got that special barrel in the cellar .... the one with the golden spigot?
I was thinking TG might like to see it ........ whistle:
Yeeessssssss.... eyes:
A special visit to the cellar could be arranged for the boy... whistle:
It must be a secret mind... never tell anyone... noooo:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
A whole barrell?
Oh yes ... The full 11 gallons. That's 88 pints lad .... you'll not feel a thing.
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BM .... have you still got that special barrel in the cellar .... the one with the golden spigot?
I was thinking TG might like to see it ........ whistle:
Yeeessssssss.... eyes:
A special visit to the cellar could be arranged for the boy... whistle:
It must be a secret mind... never tell anyone... noooo:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
A whole barrell?
Oh yes ... The full 11 gallons. That's 88 pints lad .... you'll not feel a thing.
eeek:
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Like throwing a dustbin down the high street. eeek:
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Like throwing a dustbin down the high street. eeek:
Well I wouldn't have put it quite that way but essentially ..... yes.
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Like throwing a dustbin down the high street. eeek:
Afterwards... yes... (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fwhacky011.gif&hash=ee9e54427a17a53bd1fbc08c41a00bdfa390324d) (http://www.freesmileys.org)
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I will now say goodnight before I am further debauched by you big boys. surrender:
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I will now say goodnight before I am further debauched by you big boys. surrender:
Goodnight... sweet dreams eyes:
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You'll wake up in a cold sweat you know. whistle:
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You'll wake up in a cold sweat you know. whistle:
lol: lol: lol:
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It appears that the worst is going to reach me around 1800hr's tomorrow, but it's going to be fairly blowy throughout the day
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/forecast-hourly.asp?partner=accuweather&postalcode=RG21%203AA&metric=1&hbhday=2&hbhhour=17
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It appears that the worst is going to reach me around 1800hr's tomorrow, but it's going to be fairly blowy throughout the day
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/forecast-hourly.asp?partner=accuweather&postalcode=RG21%203AA&metric=1&hbhday=2&hbhhour=17
scared2:
Bye bye...
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Shite here too...
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/CYXX0004_c.html?force_units=1
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... Will this all turn out to be a storm in a teacup? Or are we all going to die?
Post your weather reports here over the next 24 hours or so and we will see if the weather man is a canute or not.
I was woken at 0430 by rain/wind battering the bedroom window. The battering continues and will do throughout the day. Bloody weatherman has got it right. It's going to be an interesting day at the office
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Rough here this morning and through the night but not gale force (as predicted) yet… scared2:
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http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index-forecast.asp?postalcode=LL18%206AB
Blue skies and sunshine here so that forecast is bollox.
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You’re better off just looking out of the window… noooo:
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That's what I did.
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That's what I did.
Well done you! ;D
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
Calm before the storm prolly... whistle:
Nick, you missed the lock-in last night - where were you? rubschin:
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
And how's the weather?
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
And how's the weather?
lol:
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
Calm before the storm prolly... whistle:
Nick, you missed the lock-in last night - where were you? rubschin:
We spent the evening measuring things. DIY related horrors evil:
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Nick ..... You don't do DIY. noooo:
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Despite all the apocalyptic warnings it is completely calm here. Currently evil:
Calm before the storm prolly... whistle:
Nick, you missed the lock-in last night - where were you? rubschin:
We spent the evening measuring things. DIY related horrors evil:
Oh dear... happy100
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No, but I do have to help with measuring things. And then remeasuring them to see if the measurements have changed when they refuse to fit in the appointed space. evil:
Our piano has not changed size overnight. OK? evil:
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No, but I do have to help with measuring things. And then remeasuring them to see if the measurements have changed when they refuse to fit in the appointed space. evil:
Our piano has not changed size overnight. OK? evil:
That happens a lot with DIY – see also hanging curtains… noooo:
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The radio is full of gloom and doom for travellers with tales of deep snow in Scotland, High Winds closing the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich, floods in Cornwall, rail travel disrupted and trees blown down all over the place. Yet there is hardly a breeze enough to ruffle the fur here. The sky is completely blue, not a cloud in sight and the sun is shining brightly. shrugs:
SWMBO has just decided to put washing on the line. Expect downpour within 30 minutes. (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fchores011.gif&hash=8da805c7a7f6b8d2bdbe687923d5e00a5deaa917)
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The radio is full of gloom and doom for travellers with tales of deep snow in Scotland, High Winds closing the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich, floods in Cornwall, rail travel disrupted and trees blown down all over the place. Yet there is hardly a breeze enough to ruffle the fur here. The sky is completely blue, not a cloud in sight and the sun is shining brightly. shrugs:
SWMBO has just decided to put washing on the line. Expect downpour within 30 minutes. (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fchores011.gif&hash=8da805c7a7f6b8d2bdbe687923d5e00a5deaa917)
And frilly bloomers over the Irish Sea. noooo:
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'Tis very blowy and wet here in Surrey. A load from the local are doing the annual Plumpton races trip - good luck to them, I'm glad to be in the office.
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Wet and windy here. Taken two and half hours to get to work, "tree on overhead power lines at Harlow"
cussing:
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Oh Dear happy100
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And now the clouds have gone, the wind has dropped and the sun is shining.
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Mrs Nick is "working from home" ( cussing:) which means that she and the over chatty painter are being collectively over chatty Banghead
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And now the clouds have gone, the wind has dropped and the sun is shining.
Indeed it has. There's more bad weather to come. Just in time for the evening rush hour. scared2:
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Mr Wench is picking me up from work this evening so at least I shan't have to walk in it this evening!
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Honestly ~ the things we have to do on a stormy night ...... lol:
Would that be a dark and stormy night? whistle:
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The radio is full of gloom and doom for travellers with tales of deep snow in Scotland, High Winds closing the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich, floods in Cornwall, rail travel disrupted and trees blown down all over the place. Yet there is hardly a breeze enough to ruffle the fur here. The sky is completely blue, not a cloud in sight and the sun is shining brightly. shrugs:
SWMBO has just decided to put washing on the line. Expect downpour within 30 minutes. (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fchores011.gif&hash=8da805c7a7f6b8d2bdbe687923d5e00a5deaa917)
Predictably it is now p*ssing down, the washing has been snatched from the line and is now draped over radiators, clothes horses etc.
Equally predictably it appears to be MY FAULT! eeek:
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http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index-forecast.asp?postalcode=LL18%206AB
Blue skies and sunshine here so that forecast is bollox.
That'll be that Joe Bastardi on the left hand side of the page you linked too. They don't call him that for nothing
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the annual Plumpton trip
<snigger>Glandular is it?<snigger>
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Sunshine gone, clouds coming over and winds picking up again.
I fear I may get a good dousing when I walk over to the pub at lunch.
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Am at home this week.
It is blowing a gale again and tipping down. Managed to sneak out about 11 when the sun was out.
TMR - anything from the Plumpton boys? Seems as though it's still on.
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We have a high tide!
I like Plumpton. I work there sometimes. Excellent pub in Ditchling! cloud9:
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A coach party from the pub has gone there today. Have not heard anything yet, don't know if that's good or bad.
Last time the meeting was cancelled and they spent the day in Brighton and various pubs - not good.
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Runners and riders are now heading down to the start of the 1400 at Plumpton. There have been many withdrawals due to the going. Betting is all over the place. Listen here http://www.teamtalk.com/sportinglife/Audio_Centre
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"Sou'Wester" in the 2:30 ~ got to be a sign.
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Tel - they are there. There are pi55ed. And they are losing money (probably).
I too tipped Sou'wester, but it didn't come in. Nor did Armaddy in the 3.00 cussing:
Hopefully Polished in the 3.30 will end my bad luck...
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Tel - they are there. There are pi55ed. And they are losing money (probably).
That's definitelt par for the course.
Messy when they get back tonite.