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I was extremely lucky when I did exactly the same thing before going out for a retreat day a few summers ago. The day was beautiful to start with but clouded over and, by 3 pm, the rain was bucketing down.
It was only as we drove the few miles home that I realised what I'd done (or had failed to do) and my heart sank. Especially as I'd tipped the windows over the horizontal to help the hot air escape.
But ... at our house there hadn't been a drop of rain.
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I've been looking through the camera and snipping out shots. First ones were out of focus. Others had the bolts too far left or right for effective composition. And this time there were a lot of frames with shutter effects, which I did not have last time. But I have a few good frames with branching lightning, and one that appears to strike a neighbouring tree, but didn't. I was watching with naked eye, anyway, which was enjoyable - but missed some of those bolts, which needed the camera to reveal.
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I guess it's not exactly easy to photograph lightning at the best of times, so well done, anyway!
O, and BTW, Baptist Trainfan, your experience with the open window simply proves that you lead a Righteous Life, no?
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Baptist Trainfan, your experience with the open window simply proves that you lead a Righteous Life, no?
No, just blame the British weather!
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We're back from a lovely overnight stop with friends at their cottage by the lake. It's only about an hour out of town, but so pretty and tranquil. I couldn't really understand why it was that Canadians were so attached to their cottages, but now I get it - cottage (with all mod. cons.), lake, beautiful view and a boat. Our friends took us for a lovely tour round the lake, including getting up close and personal with a loon; until yesterday I'd only ever seen one on a dollar coin. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Oh yes, and a barbecue and a bloke who knows how to cook a steak. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Reminds me of an autumn holiday spent with some friends in a National Trust cottage halfway up the west side of Windermere. The cottage had its own stone jetty, but no boat, so we had to hire one (a double-sculling skiff, IIRC) from a chap in Bowness.
In one day, we rowed all the way up the lake to Ambleside, then right down to Newby Bridge at the southern end, and back up the west side home. All very Swallows and Amazons!
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Oooh, melurves Swallows amd Amazons, at least the book! The 1970s film is nice, but a bit boring (the book isn't!), and the more recent film seems to have been turned into a spy thriller.
There's even a documentary about the book and film on the BBC iPlayer, and there's still the one about Arthur Ransome, who apparently really may have been a spy, here.
Good stuff, especially the one about his life! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Our friends took us for a lovely tour round the lake, including getting up close and personal with a loon
Did you hear the sound a loon makes? It has been described as a 'demented cry'. It reminds me a bit of the Woody Woodpecker song.
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Lovely looking bird, though.
There were loons on Windermere when I was there, to wit, the ones rowing furiously up and down the bl**dy lake.... ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
I wouldn't have minded having a go at sailing, but that particular week in November (umpteen years ago now) was very quiet and still, weather-wise, and the few Swallows and Amazons about were getting nowhere fast.
Happy days, and Mr. Ransome certainly caught the magical atmosphere of the Lake District in his books.
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Our friends took us for a lovely tour round the lake, including getting up close and personal with a loon; until yesterday I'd only ever seen one on a dollar coin.
Oh yes, and a barbecue and a bloke who knows how to cook a steak.
But, but, but I thought you were from Orkney. The two places I have seen Loons are Shetland and off the Black Isle. Do they bypass Orkney? Alright, we call them Divers.
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Oooh, melurves Swallows amd Amazons, at least the book! ...
There's even a documentary about the book and film on the BBC iPlayer, and there's still the one about Arthur Ransome, who apparently really may have been a spy, here.
Eastern Angles Theatre Company did a play based on
"We didn't mean to go to sea" a few years ago. It got good reviews but we didn't think it was all that good!
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A serendipitous link between the two themes being aired here is to be found, of course, in Arthur Ransome's Great Northern? - which stars not only the Swallows and Amazons, but also Divers (as in birds....).
IMHO We didn't mean to go to sea is a cracking yarn, but I guess it would indeed be rather difficult to stage convincingly in a theatre... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Having now looked at the YouTube link, I agree with myself.
A worthy effort, but...
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Indeed - tho' the staging was in fact rather clever and "worked". Mind you, we saw in in a large marquee on Ipswich quayside!
Problem really was that we didn't warm to the characters (as they were portrayed, at least) and thought, "How silly of them!"
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Well, quite - it was poor Jim Brading's fault, trying to outdo an Eastern Counties bus!
(I really must get out more)
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There was a big National Theatre musical adaptation a few years ago with songs by Neil Hannon (of Divine comedy, wrote Songs of Love theme song from Father Ted). It was reportedly very good, though I didn't manage to see it myself.
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In completely different news, we had an absolute cracker of a thunderstorm last night. Rather more lightning (forks and all) than thunder - although there was a fair modicum of growling too.
I ended up turning off all the lights and just watching it in the dark, and unlike most thunderstorms I've ever seen, it lasted for the best part of an hour.
For all that, it didn't really lower the temperature all that much - it still got up to 28° this afternoon. It doesn't seem to be quite finished though - I've just seen a Severe Thunderstorm warning on the Environment Canada web-site, and the temperature forecasts for the next few days are a bit more civilised, so maybe this next one will work.
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Well, quite - it was poor Jim Brading's fault, trying to outdo an Eastern Counties bus!
(I really must get out more)
He'd be OK today - the service is run by Ipswich Buses.
(Ditto).
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I got so cold yesterday that Darllenwr put the heating on for a few hours.
He was at Bishop June's enthronement as Bishop of Llandaff, met me to go to Bristol ( we needed to collect something) and then came home. The black clouds we had seen in the distance turned out to be above our town, and it was tamping down - so much so, that we sat in the car outside the house for about 20 minutes before he dashed in o get a coat and umbrella to get me in!
Needless to say, the heating was put on again. Good old British Summer!
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And we had the heating on too (although we went to Llantwit today, not Llandaff).
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I've been sitting in the glorious sunshine watching waves sweep in from the North Sea most of the afternoon.
Mind you when I got back home it was sodden.
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You are going to get shot of all this Interesting Weather™ before we get across the Pond, aren't you?
I've been seeing some glorious Orkney weather in pictures on Facebook - hope they can keep it going until the middle of August.
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We had a lovely lunch with rellies at the restaurant in the National Portrait Gallery yesterday, then went off to do a bit of shopping. At which point it started bucketing down, and after a while we gave up and treated ourselves to a taxi back to Victoria. But the Mall was closed, which meant the traffic was terrible and it took us forever (we would have got out and walked if it hadn't still been bucketing down) - so taxi cost us a fortune. At Victoria, we discovered all the trains were up the creek because a signal box or something had been struck by lightening. So we had to get a train to a different station and then get another taxi home.
We got home late, wet, cold and rather a lot of ££££ lighter, having almost forgotten how nice lunch had been!
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I had a groundling (standing) ticket for the Globe last night, looked at the pouring rain and decided that I didn't want to get wet. I have only enjoyed one of the Emma Rice productions I have seen, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, so I am easily dissuaded.
I don't like the continual use of sound and lights that she introduced - and I often find the sound too loud. I can and do see productions like that all over London. What I loved from the Globe was the acoustic productions, and use of candle light in the Sam Wanamaker. I also miss the actors and musicians I'd grown to recognise as part of the Globe company who are no longer there.
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I also received a flyer from my local water company asking us to conserve water as rainfall was down. Which was definitely ironic when we also had the thunderstorms during the week and rain most of yesterday. We've also had some pretty major downpours recently. It should have made up for the lower rainfall in June.
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I was supposed to be looking for shoes but, with puddles inside the ones I was wearing, couldn't try any on!
Still, our little plum tree looks a lot happier.
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Why does it always rain five minutes after fresh paint has been applied to the exterior of the Episcopal Palace??
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That, I'm afraid, BF, is the Law of Murphy. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
It's a truly gorgeous day here: 20°, no humidity to speak of and brilliant sunshine. When I went out to put a bottle into the recycling box outside the back door of the château, it was actually cooler outdoors than in, which hasn't been the case for several weeks.
Really nice service this morning too - Darke in F communion and Byrd's Teach me, O Lord (with solo piglet). And Cranmer's matchless prose - what more could the discerning piglet wish for?
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It is well known around here that if you want it to rain, you should go out and water all the more valuable plants in your yard. If you want it to pour, go wash and wax your car.
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If they don't work you could also try washing your bedding or shampooing the carpets.
Or plan a church fete ("in Vicarage if wet").
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Or plan a church fete ("in Vicarage if wet").
This does not work for some congregations, normally Methodist ime, who simply in such situations get down and pray believing God will provide.
The now closed one opposite (now closed) used to do this for at least one event each summer and I cannot recall any being rained off. There was no manse to move into and the buildings were already subscribed so no shelter if wet.
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To add the all this talk of rain we went walking this weekend from Chepstow to Monmouth with a stop off in the St Briavels area. It rained solidly all Friday afternoon. Even with my goodish walking gear I was soaked. We got lost getting to our hotel and knocked on the door of what we thought was a B&B. it turned out to be an ex-B&B and a private house, but the owners were lovely and drove us to the right hotel. Just as well as I realised when I tried to sign in that my hands were so numb I couldn't actially use them. A change of clothes and a glass of wine did wonders though.
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A couple of weeks ago I was sat looking out of my front window and two people were pushing a divan bed up the road. I've just now watched a (different) pair transport a giant circular trampoline in the same direction. I'm starting to think it's a glitch in the matrix.
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I had a groundling (standing) ticket for the Globe last night, looked at the pouring rain and decided that I didn't want to get wet. I have only enjoyed one of the Emma Rice productions I have seen, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, so I am easily dissuaded.
I don't like the continual use of sound and lights that she introduced - and I often find the sound too loud. I can and do see productions like that all over London. What I loved from the Globe was the acoustic productions, and use of candle light in the Sam Wanamaker. I also miss the actors and musicians I'd grown to recognise as part of the Globe company who are no longer there.
Amen! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
Ms. Rice should be on her way soon (the sooner the netter IMHO). I do hope whoever replaces her will try to restore the Globe to what it was.
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Or plan a church fete ("in Vicarage if wet").
This does not work for some congregations, normally Methodist ime, who simply in such situations get down and pray believing God will provide.
Clearly the Methodist church near me in London was less spiritual, as one year I was asked if I could help them by being the person who would measure how much rain had fallen if they needed to make a claim on their Pluvius insurance. The Insurance Company even sent me a little rain gauge for the purpose.
Mind you, it worked: taking out the insurance scared away the rain.
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I had a groundling (standing) ticket for the Globe last night, looked at the pouring rain and decided that I didn't want to get wet. I have only enjoyed one of the Emma Rice productions I have seen, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, so I am easily dissuaded.
I don't like the continual use of sound and lights that she introduced - and I often find the sound too loud. I can and do see productions like that all over London. What I loved from the Globe was the acoustic productions, and use of candle light in the Sam Wanamaker. I also miss the actors and musicians I'd grown to recognise as part of the Globe company who are no longer there.
Amen!
Ms. Rice should be on her way soon (the sooner the netter IMHO). I do hope whoever replaces her will try to restore the Globe to what it was.
I've not been to the Globe and I don't like what I've heard of the current regime - but I recall getting soaked watching "Twelfth Night" with Mr. Rylance, and it was well worth it!
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I saw the most recent production of Twelfth Night with Mr Rylance at The Globe and loved it, I think it was that production had Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Roger Lloyd-Peck, achieving his ambition to play Shakespeare, as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. I was standing right at the front and got caught in a swirl of Mr Rylance's skirts at one point.
Mind you, I also saw the all male Richard III in that season (featuring Lloyd-Peck as Buckingham), Farinelli in the West End, because I missed it at the Globe, and the surreal Nice Fish.
I got soaked seeing Henry V, before the pit drainage was sorted, so we were standing in and inch of water and the excellent Blue Stocking at both its opening and closing night. (I saw it, loved it, went back with my daughter).
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Or plan a church fete ("in Vicarage if wet").
This does not work for some congregations, normally Methodist ime, who simply in such situations get down and pray believing God will provide.
Clearly the Methodist church near me in London was less spiritual, as one year I was asked if I could help them by being the person who would measure how much rain had fallen if they needed to make a claim on their Pluvius insurance. The Insurance Company even sent me a little rain gauge for the purpose.
Mind you, it worked: taking out the insurance scared away the rain.
Would not call them spiritual if you mean the type of people who concentrate on prayer and devotion. Nor if it is somehow thought of them as lighter of candles, praying to icons and other spiritual practices. The exact opposite would be truer. Maybe so if you think of them as people living unsung lives of sacrifice for others, with all the complexities of those who develop this type of virtue*. Rather the faith was born of quiet desperation, they needed to do this and thus had no option but to trust God.
Jengie
*for some reason this ability seems tied to also suffering from more than usual pettiness in congregational life.
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What a weekend!
We've had seven Germans staying plus a big 60th birthday party. I really enjoyed every bit of it. We chatted, played board games, hiked and had lots of lovely meals, none cooked by me.
Today is a washing sheets and towels day. Then I'm off to lunch with all my girlie friends, another birthday treat. This turning 60 lark is not so bad after all!
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Would not call them spiritual if you mean the type of people who concentrate on prayer and devotion. Nor if it is somehow thought of them as lighter of candles, praying to icons and other spiritual practices.
You have taken me much too seriously - I was being flippant!
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Boogie - glad the weekend went well. It sounds like fun. Four years in I can say that on the whole being in your sixties is good. Enjoy yourself!
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Yes, indeed. 60 is the new 40, so they say!
Back to Jim Brading's bus head-butting - I guess it might have been one of these (only in red):
Bristol H type single-decker
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In my late teens we moved to Knutsford in Cheshire and then later, before my parents moved to the Yorkshire Dales, I worked a few years outside Nantwich so for a few years commuted via Middlewich and one of the features of that that little town used to be, may still be, and amazing collection of old vehicles like buses and lorries and cars to make period vehicles for films, etc...
...or perhaps Middlewich still exists in a time warp of the mid 1940s!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
... We've had seven Germans staying ...
Does that count as an invasion??? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Glad to hear you had a good time - many happy returns to you and Mr. Boogs.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Many Happy Returns, Boogie
I'm all in favour of having a birth week/end instead of just a day.
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