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lily pad
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Excuse me??? You can fly direct from Fredericton to Boston. Does not take very long at all. Just don't drink the bottle of water that they give you when you get on the plane because there is no bathroom!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by John Holding:
Eight hours is a nice day's drive in Canada. You just live with it.
I'm not capable of driving for eight hours. I'd take the plane(s), thanks.
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Boogie
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I have driven for eight hours in Canada - it's easy, pleasant and fun!
Eight hours driving in the UK = total exhaustion. In Canada it's relaxing, pleasant and glorious!
In the UK the crowded roads with constant jams, road works and stop-start traffic sap all energy. You also take ten times as long to do the same distance as in Canada too.
**grumble grumble grumble!**
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LeRoc
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Eight hours of driving in Brazil = you're barely getting underway ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Firenze
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Reverting to the thread title - I want to complain about the weather. No wait. What I want to do is go out in the steady rain and shout at the leaden skies 'Stop it! Bugger off back to the North Pole! This is supposed to be Spring! Do we see leaves? Barely. Blossom? Scarce and bedraggled. Lambs? Shivering. Daffodils? Face down in the mud. I WANT SUNSHINE AND I WANT IT NOW.'
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Baptist Trainfan
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Actually yesterday here was pretty nice (tho' not too warm) - today is horrible!
By the way, you must decide whether our weather is nasty American weather or nasty EU weather ...
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Other way round for us. Yesterday, return to Autumn and today Spring, at least for a while ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Reverting to the thread title - I want to complain about the weather. No wait. What I want to do is go out in the steady rain and shout at the leaden skies 'Stop it! Bugger off back to the North Pole! This is supposed to be Spring! Do we see leaves? Barely. Blossom? Scarce and bedraggled. Lambs? Shivering. Daffodils? Face down in the mud. I WANT SUNSHINE AND I WANT IT NOW.'
Come down here. We have blue skies with fleecy clouds, white blossoms are bursting forth on branches, spring lambs are now almost spring sheep and into the grazing-by-themselves stage. Daffodils are everywhere, including in fields and on roadside verges, pale yellow primroses are enjoying the shade of old stone walls, rich yellow celandines bespeckle the lush green grass, etc etc., and it hasn't rained for several hours.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
... I WANT SUNSHINE ...
Come over here - we've got some.
It's not very warm sunshine (currently 2°C) but it is bright and the sky's almost cloudless and there's hardly any wind.
And there are no sn*wflakes on the weather-map until next Tuesday. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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It's exceedingly moist in these parts. The rain, starting well before I got up this morning, has only just stopped in the last five minutes. I give it 10 minutes before it starts back up again.
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Baptist Trainfan
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We've just had a very rumbly thunderstorm.
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Ariel
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We have pale yellow brimstone butterflies flitting past in the warm spring sunshine.
And various annoying types opening the windows on public transport. This is unhelpful because thanks to aerodynamics, the person who gets the full benefit of an open window on a moving bus is the one sitting at the rear of the bus, who then gets a gale. While the person sitting next to the window he has just opened barely gets a breeze.
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Ariel - It's the people who open the window and then sit a few seats in front of it that really annoy me. I think some people feel they have to control the space they are in, hence the window opening even if it is far from warm.
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Boogie
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The sun is doing battle with the fog here - hope it wins.
We went to my brother's for his birthday on Monday. He has a Dutch Barge called 'Toggenberg' (named after the goats he used to farm). My Mum launched it with a bottle of champagne 20 years ago. Mr Boogs secretly kept the bottle top and has mounted it in wood and engraved the wood with its name. All were thrilled with it, and couldn't quite believe it was the original. Photos were studied. Memories of a lovely day when my boys were small. A huge crane, Mum being like the queen smashing champagne - then wine, bread and cheese whist cruising round Preston dock 20 years - where does the time go?!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
We've just had a very rumbly thunderstorm.
We had one last night. Two massive, unexpected, lengthy rumbles of thunder like someone shifting furniture across a floor and that seemed to be about it.
Lovely warm spring day here - just going out to enjoy it!
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ArachnidinElmet
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Much nicer weather today, although the ground is still sodden. I'm in the central library which has huge windows looking out for miles. It's nice to be able to see something other than clouds.
I'm mooching around here until this evening, waiting for a Historical Society meeting. Today's on the history of Rugby League, particularly Wakefield Trinity (Wildcats). Not my usual bag, but might be worth a listen.
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Two days of clear skies and warm sun. How long can it last?
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LeRoc
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Boogie: THe has a Dutch Barge called 'Toggenberg' (named after the goats he used to farm).
I had to look this up; Toggenburg is a Swiss name. The Dutch part was changing the 'u' to an 'e'
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moonlitdoor
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I think Wakefield Trinity is one of the best names for a team, but the Rapid Solicitors stadium must be the worst name for a ground, banal and implausible in equal measure.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
I think Wakefield Trinity is one of the best names for a team, but the Rapid Solicitors stadium must be the worst name for a ground, banal and implausible in equal measure.
Yikes, I didn't even know that had happened until you mentioned it. As far as I'm concerned it's still Belle Vue.
It turned out to be an excellent talk (given by David Hinchcliffe, previously MP of Wakefield and rugby player) and was popular even with those who weren't into sport at all. It was more about class and the artificial division of Union and League into amateur and professional. Apparently it was illegal for serving members of the British armed forces to play Rugby League until 1994. Crazy stuff.
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Bearing in mind how slowly the legal cog-wheels seem to turn, isn't "Rapid Solicitors" something of an oxymoron?
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Much excitement here as one of my nephews [8 years old next week] is off on a pilgrimage with his maternal grandparents - they will be going to the temples at Palani, Madurai and Rameswaram and will doubtless spoil the little tyke rotten - but he is a bit of a sweetie and probably deserves it.
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Two days of clear skies and warm sun. How long can it last?
Gone, Jacobson, gone! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
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Two days of clear skies and warm sun. How long can it last?
Gone, Jacobson, gone!
It wasn't here at all this week And I've just read we have a yellow warning for snow tomorrow (as opposed to a warning for yellow snow, which I guess would be worse).
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Piglet
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
As soon as I read the words "yellow warning for snow" I thought they never give you warnings for yellow snow (except possibly "don't eat it").
The sun's splitting the rocks here, and it's forecast to go up to 9°C this afternoon.
That'll do nicely.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Boogie: THe has a Dutch Barge called 'Toggenberg' (named after the goats he used to farm).
I had to look this up; Toggenburg is a Swiss name. The Dutch part was changing the 'u' to an 'e'
Here she is, in Bristol harbour. She's somewhere on the Thames at the moment
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Cute. Especially the geraniums. That's one of the things I like about barges and narrow boats - their gardens are kept in charming and odd places, such as the roof.
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balaam
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The weather has held for our latest venture to the dark side of the Pennines. Liverpool is nowhere near as bleak as it was when we first visited (early 80s). But the new development, Liverpool 1, is just the same shops and food chains you get everywhere else. It has character, but it isn't local character. Forget Nandos and Café Rouge, I want a place that sells scouse.
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It had to happen. Today is dark, overcast, rainy and cold.
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I've been back here for just under two weeks and apart from succumbing to a vile bug which comes back just as it seems to have gone, it is lovely to be here.
But I am so bloody cold!
I am dire need of new clothes so hopefully things will begin to improve on the temperature front once I've managed to hit the shops.
I keep being surprised by little things, lovely things which I had forgotten.
I also keep embarrassing myself by speaking Kiswahili in shops.
But mainly all is well.
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Baptist Trainfan
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My wife once returned to a cold Scottish summer and Northumberland autumn after living for two years in West Africa. She froze, so she would sympathise with you.
Re. shopping: missionary friend of hers caused amusement when she started bargaining, African market-style, at the checkout in Marks & Spencer.
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I also keep embarrassing myself by speaking Kiswahili in shops.
I sympathise. I regularly speak French to English bus drivers and shop clerks.
What side of the road do they drive on in Kenya? This is another worry of mine when I go back to the UK. First of all I would always look the wrong way before crossing the road ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) . These days I just know that I don’t know. I stand by the side of the road for ages trying to work it out ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) .
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Theoretically they drive on the left in Kenya but lane discipline is somewhat erratic which suits my husband but terrifies me.....
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Baptist Trainfan
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A British friend, recently returned to Africa after leave, nearly had a head-on collision with a bus. Just in time he realised that he was still driving on the left - the bus driver was, correctly, on the right so didn't know what to do.
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Piglet
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There was an English composer (I can't now remember who it was) who was killed in a head-on collision just after coming off the ferry in France, having forgotten to drive on the right.
I can see how easy it would be to forget; when I was home on holiday several years ago, I asked Dad if I could drive home from visiting Mum in hospital, just to make sure I still knew how. Although I'd never actually driven on the right (and bearing in mind that the car was right-hand drive), when we turned left out of the hospital driveway I started heading towards the right lane, and Dad (very politely!) pointed out that I wasn't in Canada now ...
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LeRoc
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What happens a lot, because I often drive in left and right driving countries, is that I confuse the windscreen wiper and the indicator. Which sometimes leads to embarrassing situations at a traffic light
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My sister lives in Italy. When she returns to the UK, she manages the side of the road Okish, but she drives like an Italian. Tooting the horn and Italian hand gestures on the M25 can be a little, er, disturbing for a Properly British passenger.
Piglet, did you see Tim Peake's Shot of your part of the world?
Grim weather here today. Two weeks ago the second ferijenet arrived. There has been a marked reduction in the amount of fun stuff achieved, but a marked increase in business. Particularly loads of washing (luckily Mr F is a brilliant house husband...)
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Piglet
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Piglet, did you see Tim Peake's Shot of your part of the world?
I did indeed - doesn't it look grand?
Mind you, if that was the first time he's seen it without clouds, he must have been looking the other way for the last couple of weeks. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
It had to happen. Today is dark, overcast, rainy and cold.
It has taken time to get here, but it is now peeing it down here too. The sky is a pleasant silver grey.
I am reliably informed that in Kenya you drive on the side with the most shade.
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Originally posted by balaam:
I am reliably informed that in Kenya you drive on the side with the most shade.
You drive down the centre (fewer potholes) then the bravest gets to stay there!
(Rochdale is becoming just as potholed!)
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
... Two weeks ago the second ferijenet arrived ...
Congratulations!
I was so busy looking at the image from Ground Control to Major Tim I missed your announcement.
Welcome aboard, newest potential Shiplet!
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
... Two weeks ago the second ferijenet arrived ...
I was so busy looking at the image from Ground Control to Major Tim I missed your announcement.
Quick, everyone, the secret of How To Distract A Host is out
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Yes, congrats, Ferijen! Although I confess when I first read it, I assumed that you meant 'arrived for a visit', rather than ARRIVED!
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Congratulations Ferijen
(I had noticed this one on Twitter)
The reason Tim Peake might not have noticed Newfoundland in sunshine before is because the ISS orbit path looks like this, so it doesn't cross the same place all the time. More information here.
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Ariel
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Congratulations, Ferijen - enjoy getting to know your new little arrival!
In other news, rain here has turned to snow! The ground's too wet for it to settle but it's coming down quite heavily. Hadn't expected that.
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I'm seriously dischuffed with the weather. Ok, we've had a couple of warm (15 Celsius!) and sunny days recently, but, come on, it's Spring and I want to be warm. Enough of the cold and the gloom - meant to be a max of 7 today. 7. Boo.
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Knowing I have to work all weekend, I'm not so dischuffed with the weather. Weather like the nice days last week would have dischuffed me far more.
We have a Mocksted - internal Ofsted, complete with advisory Ofsted inspector - coming up in the next couple of weeks, plus the continuing threat of a real Ofsted following a complaint, which still hasn't happened. There is still so much work to do, not added to by one of our SLT team being suspended on disciplinary action. I suspect he's been scapegoated for the complaint. Knowing this company he's almost certainly gone, and he's my closest friend on this team. If I wasn't trying to get 9 kids through their qualifications over the next couple of months, I wouldn't be hanging around. The coursework deadlines are 7th May for GCSEs, 15th and 31st May for the Entry Levels.
I am also trying to keep next Saturday clear enough to see Bellowhead. Being unsubtle, yesterday evening I tested the new cables I bought at lunchtime for one of the interactive whiteboards (real bodge job of installation) and tried it out by putting a youtube track up, which brought those who were still there to come and see.
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Husband and friend are off for a walk in the Surrey countryside today. I've declined the invite and intend to catch up with my creative writing that's been negleted for a whle. I also intend to go and get a dicount card for swimming, gym classes etc from my local leisure centre. After all I might as well take advantage of being over sixty.
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