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Thread: Yes, yes, let's talk about the weather! The British thread 2016
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
...Any heads up on things to be aware of back in the south of England?
The Government, the weather, the cost of living - apart from that you should be fine!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Every autumn we run a Family Fun Concert in church, to raise funds for our two charities in Africa, and they always end with a Finale (how else?) in which all the performers join.
The concerts all have a theme - 'Are you 'Aving a Giraffe?' or 'The Jumbo FUN Concert' and last year's was 'A Whale of a Time' so of course our Finale was 'Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer' as I don't know any suitable songs about whales. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
It was FABULOUS, even though I'd have preferred 'Jehovah'; I'd never heard singing in our church sound so good! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
This year's theme is 'Monkey Business'! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Mrs. S, planning for October already!
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Chocoholic
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Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
Any heads up on things to be aware of back in the south of England?
The traffic has got worse but petrol is cheaper.
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Ferijen
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Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
Any heads up on things to be aware of back in the south of England?
Don't engage with any news outlets unless you want to be bored rigid by people Stating Their Views Which Are Definitely True And Telling You That The Other People Are Wrong about the referendum.
Hampshire is still beautiful ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Government, weather, cost of living, traffic, fuel prices and referendum.....
All of the above (election rather than referendum) are issues here so maybe adapting will be easier than I thought?!
It will be nice to be able to cast my vote again as we haven't been able to vote for 4 years due to admin issues.
All feels a bit odd really but I'm so looking forward to seeing the bluebells in bloom again
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L'organist
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Re: the singing of Cwm Rhondda - the word you want is hwyl.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
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Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
Any heads up on things to be aware of back in the south of England?
The traffic has got worse but petrol is cheaper.
Cause and effect. The time when petrol was over £1.50 a go and rising, you could see the visible effects: a lot less traffic about.
The weather seems to have got more extreme but food seems to be a bit cheaper.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
...All feels a bit odd really but I'm so looking forward to seeing the bluebells in bloom again
I often try to time my visits to enjoy that very thing!
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
...but tomatoes are a fruit!
Exactly - see new sig. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
We appear to have gale-force fog here today - I was nearly blown away (no mean feat!) when I left the house, and the view from the window outside my office has all but disappeared.
eta: Just a thought, Mrs. Beaky - if you've been living outside the UK for a while, will you have to re-register to be able to vote? Might be worth checking on one of the Government web-sites.
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Uncle Pete
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re Africa to UK. I think one thing that the natives haven't mentioned is culture shock. After spending a winter in India, it is always a shock to return to Canada - although I have lived here all my life. Canada-India doesn't seem as much a shock.
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Eigon
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The Intrepid Mrs S - are you familiar with Jonah Man Jazz? My sister was in a school production, and sang the songs endlessly until I knew them all too, especially singing "When Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed...." as fast as we possibly could!
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MrsBeaky
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You're right piglet we'll need to check we're on the electoral roll
And yes Uncle Pete, I know lots of people who have found reverse culture shock much harder than going to the new place (which we seemed to handle reasonably well apart from a couple of hairy moments)
Hey ho, could be a fun ride ahead!
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Ferijen
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Originally posted by Eigon:
The Intrepid Mrs S - are you familiar with Jonah Man Jazz? My sister was in a school production, and sang the songs endlessly until I knew them all too, especially singing "When Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed...." as fast as we possibly could!
"Nineveh city was a city of sin/the jazzin and the jiving made a terrible din..."
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LeRoc
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Ferijen: "Nineveh city was a city of sin/the jazzin and the jiving made a terrible din..."
Sounds like a cool place! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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MrsBeaky - what really does get to me and disturb me every time I arrive in UK is how fast everybody travels - picked up one Friday night from Heathrow by a friend who had been on a course locally and the journey up to Liverpool was a nightmare!
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Piglet
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Something very trivial that I notice whenever I'm home is how small the car-park spaces seem in comparison to Canadian ones - it makes me wonder how I ever manoeuvred my old Volvo into one.
Oh, and the cars seem much smaller too, but cars over here are generally bigger* than European ones; when we bought our old car (a Hyundai Elantra) the bloke in the showroom described it as a "compact sedan (saloon)". That's not compact, we said, it's huge ...
Even the present Pigletmobile seems considerably bigger than the Nissan Micras we had when we lived in Belfast.
* and people over here seem to be very fond of pick-up trucks, which tend to be bloody enormous.
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Gill H
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Originally posted by Eigon:
The Intrepid Mrs S - are you familiar with Jonah Man Jazz? My sister was in a school production, and sang the songs endlessly until I knew them all too, especially singing "When Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed...." as fast as we possibly could!
We did Swingin' Samson - anyone remember that one?
"Snip snip went the scissors, he's the baldest man in town!"
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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quote:
Originally posted by Eigon:
The Intrepid Mrs S - are you familiar with Jonah Man Jazz? My sister was in a school production, and sang the songs endlessly until I knew them all too, especially singing "When Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed...." as fast as we possibly could!
Well, our puppet team did the story of Jonah and the Whale at the beginning of the concert, I think that might have been to Jonah Man Jazz! We had a brilliant whale, and a separate whale mouth to swallow up the Jonah puppet, so that went down well.
I'm not sure the Entire Company could have sung it, without rehearsal, though!
(Thanks l'organist, that is indeed the word!)
Mrs. S, quoting Snoopy - 'Just because I can't sing, doesn't mean I won't sing!
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Spike
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Originally posted by Gill H:
quote:
Originally posted by Eigon:
The Intrepid Mrs S - are you familiar with Jonah Man Jazz? My sister was in a school production, and sang the songs endlessly until I knew them all too, especially singing "When Jonah sank into the sea he closed his eyes and prayed...." as fast as we possibly could!
We did Swingin' Samson - anyone remember that one?
"Snip snip went the scissors, he's the baldest man in town!"
I've sung the part of God in Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo a couple of times.
"For forty days and nights of rain, I'm gonna wash those sinners down the drain"
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Chamois
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Originally posted by Spike:
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I've sung the part of God in Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo a couple of times.
That reminds me of the Family Prom in, I think, 1990. They did Britten's Noyes Fludde (always a great show). I was painting the living room ceiling while listening on the radio. When the solemn BBC announcer said "And that applause was for Cleo Laine as she takes up her position as God" I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the ladder: paint tray, roller and all.
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LeRoc
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Is there a particular reason why Britain always has nice weather when I need to work, and foggy sleet when I'm free?
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Welease Woderwick
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If you can cast your mind back a month or so, to when we were discussing Scrabble Blast™ - I have just scored 1493 with only one score below 40 [28 to dispose of a really annoying bomb!] so I'm pretty pleased with myself.
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LeRoc
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LOL, I'm now finally able to listen to Jonah Man Jazz.
He was sitting under a pineapple tree?? Do these people have any idea how pineapples grow?
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L'organist
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If you want double-entendre lyrics (but vastly better music) then I recommend The Daniel Jazz.
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Piglet
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I've been party to several of those productions; I've played the flute in the band for Jonah Man Jazz (and may have sung in it at some point too), and the recorder in Noye's Fludde when I was at school.
Just after D. and I started going out together, he did a production of Noye's Fludde in St. Magnus Cathedral and I got roped in to sub-conduct the animals - they were processing in through the west door and he was conducting under the crossing, so I was conveying the beat.
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LeRoc
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L'organist: If you want double-entendre lyrics (but vastly better music) then I recommend The Daniel Jazz.
Oh my, I suddenly feel I should have a cold shower. Can I have something of whatever the lyricist was smoking?
And I'd better not start talking about the theological content of these songs here, lest I give WW another headache
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Ferijen
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I feel I should, in honour of the thread title, Talk About The Weather.
Today we have had glorious sunshine, blue sky, spring warmth. I accidentally didn't bring a coat to work. I'm currently looking at sleet which is making the tops of cars go ever so slightly white. We've seen hail, rain, and everything in between.
What a perfectly *British* day...
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Ariel
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We had hail. As someone remarked, it was slow hail. It dropped in a leisurely fashion and bounced off the cars in a languid sort of way before eventually turning back to rain. It's been bitterly cold all day.
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Welease Woderwick
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Another lovely day here, just off on a flying visit to The Big City.
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Piglet
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I've been trying to get into Goddess Mode, as we're having a couple of friends round for supper on Saturday evening. Pâté has been made, and dusting has been accomplished. Further housewifeliness will be attempted in the morning.
I'm going to make a sort of cross between a risotto and a paella, which shouldn't really be too taxing if I have everything organised before I start, and if I set the bread machine going at the right time I can serve some nice freshly-baked French sticks.
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
... Today we have had glorious sunshine, blue sky, spring warmth ...
We had that too, but without the spring* warmth ... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
* Spring in Newfoundland usually happens on the second Tuesday in June, at about 2:30 in the afternoon.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
[...] Even the present Pigletmobile seems considerably bigger than the Nissan Micras we had when we lived in Belfast.
* and people over here seem to be very fond of pick-up trucks, which tend to be bloody enormous.
Hey Piglet, I think rather everything seems considerably bigger than a Nissan Micra. The clue's in the name. (No, not 'Nissan!') ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Now, if Nissan Micras and some slightly bigger, yet somehow smaller cars are being driven by Piglets (or Piglets'): Could we say that them gigantic gas-guzzling pick-up truck beasties and similar are being driven by fully-grown swines? It might be a statement that bacons to be made.
Bon appetit.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Boogie:
We had thick, thick snow!
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Ours made the BBC national news.
<ONEUPMANSHIP> ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
But it isappeared in last night's rain ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
(The letter d isappeared too)
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balaam, apparently you can still see snow in the surrounding hills from the fourth floor of the University Building. (I looked at the map after I got a text saying lots of snow.)
Here it was just cold; sunny, pretty and very, very cold. This morning there's a white crust of frost on the cars; the grass and roofs are hardly touched.
Half term-itis turned into what felt like flu. The week back after half term I was told to work from home because I looked so terrible the couple of days I went in. I spent it curled up in bed, clearing one of the very overdue paper mountains. I do like laptops.
Last week, still full of something not very nice, it was back to leaving at stupid o'clock as we're almost certainly expecting Ofsted following a complaint, and that will be without warning, plus an inspection next week. And to add to the joys, one of my much loved colleagues very sadly died unexpectedly. We found out on Tuesday night, spent Tuesday night and Wednesday organising how to break it to the rest of the staff on Wednesday afternoon, and then the students on Thursday.
Social life, what social life?
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Frost on the roofs here. I've just seen a sparrow using out bird feeder. Either it didn't like what was on offer or it was being kind to (or being bullied by) the wood pigeons sitting on the shed roof, as it kept spiting the seeds out, As soon as it had gone the pigeons flew down and waddled round the patio eating the dropped seeds.
We're off to meet the rest of my side of the family to celebrate my mum's 88th birthday in a bit. Not helped by 1. trains not running the way we want to go, hence a bit of a trek round, and 2. my brother being very vague as to what time he's actually booked the meal for.
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LeRoc
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Some frost on the grass here in MK. I feel sorry for the concrete cows.
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Today I'm having a coffee morning to raise funds to name a Guide Dog puppy "Coffee" (see my sig) I have no idea how many will turn up - lots of brownies are made!
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The reason for "Coffee" is that I am in a Facebook group for blind/VI people, guide dog owners and puppy walkers called the 'Guide Dogs Coffee Lounge'.
(guess who has discovered how to put symbols on here? hahaha!)
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We had thick frost on the ground and roofs this morning here in south London but it's already gone. Rain is forecast later and it looks set to hit us just when we'll be taking my 93 year old mother out to lunch for an early celebration of Mothering Sunday.
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Boogie, good luck with your coffee morning.
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Right at the moment it is cold and windy but dry enough to take the cover off the garden furniture in the hope that it and the furniture can dry out a bit.
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Ordinary sort of day with rain, here. I took myself out for dinner last night (Brown's in Oxford) on the "£11.95 for two courses" offer. You'd think I've have learnt by now that this sort of offer never actually is a bargain unless you stick rigidly to the options available, have no extras and only drink tap water.
I must say it was good having a peaceful candlelit table and a delicious early evening dinner, with a glass of sparkling wine and a Brandy Alexander by way of dessert. I'm not going to think about how much it cost (or the health aspect of what I ordered), but on a bitterly cold night after a trying week it felt very good to just relax and enjoy a meal and drinks out.
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I missed the Northern snow as I'm in Surrey for the weekend. It's still chuffing freezing (I believe that's the technical term) but only a bit of rain this morning.
I'm down here visiting my aunt, with my Dad who's celebrating a significant birthday. We went to a Tamil temple in Ealing for a birthday blessing and stayed for some food (rice, dhal and sambal). I've no idea how they manage to feed so many people, easily 300 people just in the time we were there. Temple food always seems to be lovely even though it's cooked in bulk. Some people had dressed up, so we had women in many-coloured saris and kameez, topped of with woolly union jack socks to keep out the cold.
I could probably have posted this on the interfaith thread, not that I did much discussing of the issues as I had my mouth full
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Cold and rainy here too. I am So Sick of winter...
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Just outside the cattle crossing, we've had a bit of everything today - sun, showers, hail, a bit of now in the night... the only unifying factor has been that it's been effing cold!
Luckily I've been indoors most of the day painting the front room and hallway in preparation for laying a new floor next weekend. I could get used to this DIY lark...
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It's been cold here today, but lovely and sunny and lots of blue sky, so we went for a walk below the castle (it is on a big old rock and can be seen for miles around, and there are several walks lower down that go all the way round, with lovely views over towards the Trossachs and Ochils) and into the older bit of town. It was very pleasant, although really quite nippy! The Elf Lass was asleep so we thought we would nip into the museum near where we parked for a cup of something warm so that she could sleep a bit longer before we messed about putting her back in the car, but we got there precisely 1 minute after the cafe closed (3/4 hour before museum closing time). So we've had to make do with tea back at home to warm up, but that's no bad thing.
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Husband en rouge cooked brunch this morning. It consisted of (English) bacon, eggs, baked beans and toasted English muffins.
My work is done.
Short of adding a fine English sausage, like a Cumberland ring, you could hardly do more.
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As the main road is closed at the moment, we had to go to Abergavenny via Mynydd Llangattock this afternoon. There are tremendous views, right over to Radnor Forest. Many of the peaks we could see were snow covered. It was very beautiful.
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Husband en rouge cooked brunch this morning. It consisted of (English) bacon, eggs, baked beans and toasted English muffins.
My work is done.
Short of adding a fine English sausage, like a Cumberland ring, you could hardly do more.
And fried bread.
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
Husband en rouge cooked brunch this morning. It consisted of (English) bacon, eggs, baked beans and toasted English muffins.
Excellent. I'd be happy with that. Have you converted him to the joys of a good cup of breakfast tea, or is he sticking with coffee?
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