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Ariel
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It's been raining steadily all day. Some of the roads are flooded. More rain to come over the weekend. Somehow I don't think I'll be getting out much this weekend, either. How is everyone else doing?
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St. Gwladys
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Rumour hath it that we will have two dry days in September. So much for "draught"!
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Tree Bee
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Poured all day here but stopped around 4, when I dashed out to pick some of my gooseberry crop.
The berries are turning red and are huge this year, must be due to all the rain.
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by St. Gwladys: Rumour hath it that we will have two dry days in September. So much for "draught"!
They will be around my birthday (21st September). Put a note in your diary.
eta: I can confidentally predict that the 27th July will be like today. That is because it is Sports Day, and our little team (plus a couple of carefully seleted ringers) are in the rounders. What a great game for grown men and women. [ 06. July 2012, 20:28: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
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daisydaisy
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I'm glad I have no reason to go out tomorrow because I feel early hiernation coming on.
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Boogie
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel:
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I prefer my iwet suit
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Sioni Sais
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It's official. I am treating my feet for mildew.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by leo: Raining here but who cares when there is Wimbledon and strawberries?
Enjoy it - at least over there you get proper British coverage without commercial breaks every 2 minutes.
PS Sock it to him, Murray!
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Welease Woderwick
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Over here it is monsoon but VERY little rain!
I obviously should NOT clean - my PC didn't work this morning so we had to call the service man in - fixed in 2 minutes - but whilst we waited I vacuumed the study. Later HWMBO couldn't get any display on his monitor which had been working earlier when I checked it - when vacuuming I must have knocked off the monitor power switch Then he couldn't get into the network - apparently I had knocked off that power switch as well
piglet, I didn't know Murray Walker played tennis.
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[thanks, and I fixed the bit we both missed ] [ 07. July 2012, 16:53: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Welease Woderwick
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As you all know I love living here but sometimes it hits me more forcefully than others - I am sitting here and was reading and in the distance I can hear some of the local kids practising chendamelam - a drum music peculiar to this part of the country - and they are getting pretty good!
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Ariel
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Someone in one of the flats opposite has a small child: there are huge, beautiful bubbles drifting out of one of the windows, across the car park, small global rainbows in the sudden stillness after the torrential rain we've just had.
Of course it could just be that their flat is flooded...
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Uncle Pete
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: As you all know I love living here but sometimes it hits me more forcefully than others - I am sitting here and was reading and in the distance I can hear some of the local kids practising chendamelam - a drum music peculiar to this part of the country - and they are getting pretty good!
Will I get a welcome concert when I arrive in January?
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Welease Woderwick
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I will speak to Murukesh and Kannan and ask them, okay?
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Piglet
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I've had a perfect early-July Saturday - lazing in front of the tennis for several hours - well done Serena, and well done unpronounceable Polish lady who took her to three sets, and more importantly well done the winning men's doubles team, half of which was British.
Then I made cherry CAKE, which should by now be ready for virtual tasting - help yourselves.
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Welease Woderwick
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We've missed mass as the timing would have been dodgy as we have to leave not long after we would have got back to go to the dunking of Mrs E's first grandbaby some way south of the big city. Now we just have time for breakfast, shower and get on the road.
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Nicodemia
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Just fancy some cherry cake plus of course a large coffee. Anyone join me?
It is actually NOT RAINING! And yesterday was a fairly reasonable day, with just a few heavy showers.
But now it is forecast to get wet again, and colder. Roll on Autumn, it might actually be warm!
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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quote: Originally posted by Nicodemia: Just fancy some cherry cake plus of course a large coffee. Anyone join me?
Oh yes please!
We had no rain yesterday, and it's still dry this morning (just) but it is very humid. I stayed in my jamas, did the gardening, got very hot and steamy - then had a shower. Now to relax with that coffee and cherry cake.
Cheers!
(PS - my jamas don't look like jamas, they look like a track suit!)
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Curiosity killed ...
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We've got your rain, it's been tipping it down all morning and the heavens are still dumping great gobbets of stuff down now. It wasn't too bad yesterday, the odd spitty-spottle here and there, after I'd waited out a few stair-rod showers in the morning before leaving to collect my daughter.
I like going to St Pancras lots of interesting people watching. In fact, I was so busy taking pictures of festival goers coming off trains that I missed my daughter in the crowd and got a phone call finding out where I was.
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Welease Woderwick
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Child appropriately dunked - they did 5 in a group today. Got a couple of nice photos of baby being held by her Great-Grandmother!
I gathered a shadow at church, a little lad in 7th Standard who sat by me and walked by me and it was difficult not to turn round and fall over him! He was with one of the other groups so solemnly shook my hand after the church bit before he went off to their family feast.
Our feast was okay but, as I just said to HWMBO, I prefer Hindu food to Latin Catholic food; he replied "A very different methodology" which is true, I suppose, it certainly tastes different.
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Tree Bee
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Been up to Northamptonshire for an 80th birthday party and found the sun! Unfortunately the rain caught up with us enough to drench us on the walk back to the car - and it's followed us down the M1 to home. Humph!
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daisydaisy
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Summer arrived today - it was dry enough this morning to cycle to church, and sunny enough this afternoon to visit a garden then work in my own putting in the plants that I bought there (after creating some space for them) having told myself I have no space for any more. Looks like autumn might come back again tomorrow, so I'm glad that I could do all that today.
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Jack the Lass
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quote: Originally posted by Tree Bee: Been up to Northamptonshire for an 80th birthday party and found the sun! Unfortunately the rain caught up with us enough to drench us on the walk back to the car - and it's followed us down the M1 to home. Humph!
[Northamptonshire joke] Sounds like good weather for my ducks! [/Northamptonshire joke] (I know it's very sad, but I'm chuckling away at that. I'm so funny)
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Ariel
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Two and a half glorious hours of blazing hot July sun. Lunch outside in the open air of a National Trust garden, the breeze in the trees, the sound of birds calling to each other, the occasional bleat from sheep on a distant hillside. Flowers given extra life and vivid colours by the light.
Then the skies clouded over, summer faded back into autumn, dark clouds appeared and followed me home, where it's now raining.
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Eleanor Jane
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Lovely afternoon - husband and I went for a longish walk the other way around the harbour, found a pub on a boat with tables on the top deck looking over the harbour (and very good beer, reportedly) then had dinner at another pub with a less nice view, but still gloriously outside and not in the rain!
Sadly we missed out on outdoor Shakespeare on Friday. It rained persistently from about midday into the night. I feel a bit gyped that the tickets were non refundable.
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daisydaisy
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Ah yes, the optimism of buying tickets for outdoor productions more than a couple of hours before it starts.... and yet we do it every year.
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Piglet
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Having had Choral Duties™ in the morning, I only saw the very end of the tennis. Oh well, there's always next year, eh?
Really nice Evensong tonight with just four of us plus D. in the choir, but we did Tallis' Short Service, the Neary responses and Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, and though I say it what shouldn't, did them rather well.
Day off tomorrow as it's a public holiday (Orangemen's Day). Having spent 15 years in Belfast trying to escape from it, I'd almost rather work, but the weather forecast is rather good* so I may as well enjoy it.
* Your weather on the other side of the Pond's been that rotten I almost feel guilty ...
... almost.
edited - splelign [ 09. July 2012, 02:05: Message edited by: piglet ]
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balaam
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Today was the second time this july that we've had "a month's rain in twelve hours." The weathermen are running out of clichés.
Living on the hillside has advantages.
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Piglet
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I'm not even going to tell you what our weather was like today.
Laundry in tumble-dryer, bread-machine whirring away - Domestic Goddess Piglet strikes again.
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Welease Woderwick
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It's raining here, too, and we live on the top of a slight rise [can't really call it a hill] so no waterlogging - after living in the city for a few years when the house became an island in the rain this is far better!
I rang my UK bank just now to do my monthly transfer to my account here and the woman said it is cold and wet in Skelmersdale - it is relatively cool here, too, but probably over 20°C.
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QLib
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I rang my UK bank just now to do my monthly transfer to my account here and the woman said it is cold and wet in Skelmersdale
A pretty typical July day in Skem, then.
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Nicodemia
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quote: Nicodemia, you need a pair of these.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote: Originally posted by QLib: quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I rang my UK bank just now to do my monthly transfer to my account here and the woman said it is cold and wet in Skelmersdale
A pretty typical July day in Skem, then.
That's just what she said!
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Morlader
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quote: Originally posted by Balaam: The weathermen are running out of clichés.
Never! Impossible, they have so many .. "Rain sinking its way south" Arrgh. 'Its way' is always redundant. "Showers bubbling up" (showers here don't go up, they come down!) "Heavy rain causing surface flooding.." Is there flooding 'up there' in heaven? ".. in low lying areas." You are a low lying area, you are!
And that's just a few of the rain-related clichés. There are so many, many more. Might make games the the Circus. BTW Weather women are just as guilty. And they all look so damn pleased about it!
Gotta go and lie down in a darkened room.
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Ariel
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At this rate, by Friday my normal train will be replaced by a regularly scheduled submarine.
(I suppose "This submarine has been delayed because of whales on the line" will make a change.)
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Jemima the 9th
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I could have sworn the sun shone for 10 minutes earlier. It's stopped now, of course, and clouded over. There will be rain for the rest of the afternoon.
It's only been a little soggy in glorious Essex so no need for flippers yet, although we are supposed to be going camping this weekend. The forecast isn't dreadful but it's hardly going to be a scorcher. I expect more than 16deg in the middle of a July day. I mean really. Tut.
I say "we" are going camping, but it's actually Mr Jt9 and children A&B, I'm not going to inflict a month old baby on a campsite! Or camping on an already sleep-deprived me, come to that..
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ken
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Just been camping. In Shropshire, right on the Welsh border. Got quite badly sunburned.
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Piglet
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I went camping once, which was once too often. Inflicting camping on anyone, IMHO, amounts to Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Even a hotel/B&B room without en suite facilities is roughing it a bit ...
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Sioni Sais
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Camping varies according to the facilities, the weather, company but most of all the management of the site.
A couple of years ago a group of us took a few nights on the Gower peninsula. The weather was the usual blustery stuff but Mrs P.... who ran the place was a tyrant. Cars had to be placed *exactly* in front of your tent (to block out any view), phones would be recharged for a £1 a go and the showers were available for 4 hours a day. I reckon she was put there by the Bed & Breakfast association to get potential campers to use B&Bs instead.
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St Everild
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I'm with Piglet on the camping front...I have recently been on a course which was at a lovely house in the deepest countryside, with a river at the bottom of the garden. Soft furnishings etc co-ordinated and the food was Very Good Indeed. But one loo (with WHB) and one bathroom (with loo and shower over bath) between 8 bedrooms was not quite adequate enough... The horror of possibly stumbling across some bloke while in my 'jammies was sufficient to cause Very Early Waking-Up so that I could have first shower...
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: Inflicting camping on anyone, IMHO, amounts to Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Totally agree, wild horses couldn't pay me enough to go camping. The idea that only a thin piece of fabric would be between me and the outside world, weather, passing predators, etc, is enough to ensure staying awake all night.
Each to their own: when I go on holiday I want a comfortable bed in a quiet en-suite room with a view, television, and a door that locks, and the option of a really lavish Full Breakfast, which I have not cooked, in the morning.
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Jack the Lass
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The temperature was such today that we made enquiries of the Powers That Be and discovered that the heating at work has been officially turned off for the summer. I suppose it makes sort of sense as a general policy, but I suspect when the policy was decided temperatures of 10 degrees weren't expected in July. Brrrrrr.
TME and I are going on an archeological dig for a weekend at the end of the month. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to spending the weekend on my hands and knees in a muddy trench in this weather (it's his birthday present so he's not paid for it, so I'm allowed to moan but he's not ).
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Jack the Lass
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No, CK, we're going to Flag Fen. It will be great, but I'm hoping the ducks hold off the rain-dancing for a bit (especially as we will also be camping).
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busyknitter
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quote: Originally posted by ken: Just been camping. In Shropshire, right on the Welsh border. Got quite badly sunburned.
Proves nowt. You would burn in a downpour. indoors.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: ... a really lavish Full Breakfast, which I have not cooked ...
Oh YES. With Proper Bacon™. **sigh**
It was a beautiful day today (23° with no Humidex ) and when D. picked me up from w*rk he'd made chicken sandwiches which we ate beside Topsail Beach, looking out towards Bell Island and trying to decide if the slightly unusual ripples in the water were caused by whales; we didn't actually see any coming up for air, but we were fairly sure that they were there ...
There were even a few people in paddling.
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