This weather seems to be playing havoc with my internet. Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing slow/no connection during the last couple of months.
I've not had an internet connection for days. Still haven't.
Quote from: Leman on 01 February 2016, 07:14:36 PM
This weather seems to be playing havoc with my internet. Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing slow/no connection during the last couple of months.
Storm, what storm. It's a bit breezy and there are showers off and on. pretty normal for here.
Internet is fine too!
Obviously a suvverner!
Quote from: fsn on 01 February 2016, 07:19:19 PM
I've not had an internet connection for days. Still haven't.
Oik ! ;D ;D ;D
Rather (ahem) 'breezy' at Techno Towers in Pembrokeshire at the mo...(I nearly got blown off my feet taking hay out to the sheep this evening)....And I don't think we've got anything
like the worst of it.
Mind you...Mrs T went into Cardigan this morning... Cardigan being about 10 miles away and about 700 feet lower than us...and she said it was almost calm there.
(Shouldn't live in the bloomin' hills.)
Internet is no slower than usual, for the middle of nowhere.
Cheers - Mr Windswept.
It has been a tad blowy and a liittle soggy down here in Kent but the tinterweb is fine.
Windy and gusting to around 45mph. Nothing compared to the North of Scotland though.
Quote from: Leman on 01 February 2016, 07:56:23 PM
Obviously a suvverner!
Just wait till my kilt is back from the cleaners and I've sharpened my sgian dhub and I'll show you :)
Quote from: Techno on 01 February 2016, 08:42:26 PM
I nearly got blown off my feet taking hay out to the sheep this evening
Thats cos you haven't taken up my generous offer of some of my extra weight :)
No problems here, despite going backwards along Old Hall St the other day.
IanS
Very windy here in the West of Scotland. Haven't checked the roof but garden fence still standing (has blown down before - the last time when we had 90 mph plus winds - narrowly missing me when I was out trying to shore it up!). No problems with t'internet ever since we upgraded our Hub.
Quote from: Techno on 01 February 2016, 08:42:26 PM
I nearly got blown off my feet taking hay out to the sheep this evening.
You should have just thrown it out the window. :D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 02 February 2016, 11:06:27 AM
You should have just thrown it out the window. :D
Sadly, Westie....The wind was blowing in the opposite direction to what would be required to achieve that. ;D ;D ;D ;D
(I'd be picking hay out of the green stuff for DAYS ! X_X)
Still 'blowy' down here.....But compared to yesterday, just about nothing.
Cheers - Phil
How many legs are you responsible for Phil
Techno 2
Mrs T 2
MIL 2 (dodgy ones)
Dogs 12
Sheep ?
Etc
PS do you eat your sheep?
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 02 February 2016, 12:30:00 PM
How many legs are you responsible for Phil
...
Dogs 12
The odd thing is, that there are only two dogs.
No.....There are four.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 02 February 2016, 12:30:00 PM
How many legs are you responsible for Phil
Techno 2
Mrs T 2
MIL 2 (dodgy ones)
Dogs 12
Sheep ?
Etc
PS do you eat your sheep?
Right, I'll work this out.
Me, Mrs T and the MIL = 6
Four Labs =16
Six horses/ponies =24
Nine sheep =36..........No, we don't eat them, Mark....They're just organic lawnmowers who cross graze the fields with the gee-gees.
Ten chickens = 20..........No, we don't eat those either. ;D ;D
Think that makes 102.
Cheers - Phil (I suppose I could count the MIL's zimmer...That'd be another 4. X_X)
Quote from: Techno on 02 February 2016, 05:50:19 PM
No.....There are four.
Right, I'll work this out.
Me, Mrs T and the MIL = 6
Four Labs =16
Six horses/ponies =24
Nine sheep =36..........No, we don't eat them, Mark....They're just organic lawnmowers who cross graze the fields with the gee-gees.
Ten chickens = 20..........No, we don't eat those either. ;D ;D
Think that makes 102.
Cheers - Phil (I suppose I could count the MIL's zimmer...That'd be another 4. X_X)
The reason I ask is that Mrs Orcs used to have freind with a small holding and teased him about the number of legs.
Thats a lot of Pets
As a complete carnivore, I would find not eating animals I had reared very difficult. (Yes I do wonder what Mrs Orcs cat would taste like. but I am not suicidal :))
I fall into the Hugh Fernley-Wasit mode of thinking. Animals should be looked after very well, fed on what they are suposed to eat, slaughterd humanely and then everything possible used from them.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 February 2016, 09:30:47 AM
As a complete carnivore, I would find not eating animals I had reared very difficult.
Would you eat a hamster? :P
... anyhoo ..... "Waterfalls double back in Storm Henry" ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35474399 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35474399)
.... I know how they felt. I opened the door, looked out and double backed also! :-q
Quote from: Westmarcher on 03 February 2016, 09:35:53 AM
Would you eat a hamster? :P
Yes. I have eaten mouse in Zambia.
When somebody has very little and offers to share it with you, and you know a refusal will offend you eat what you are presented with.
Backward flowing waterfalls!! Who says water can't go uphill.
Quote from: Leman on 03 February 2016, 04:04:15 PM
Who says water can't go uphill.
erm - Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 February 2016, 04:19:55 PM
erm - Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein
IanS
Then I have, by personal observation, seen that they are wrong :)
Waterfalls being blown upwards are quite spectacular but a sudden change in the wind can result in personal proof that what goes up eventually comes down. Realising the wind was no longer blowing the water up but rather that it was swinging it towards you like a scythe provided a few "interesting moments" to be honest!
The upside of having a waterfall dumped on you is that it provides a perfect excuse to retire to a pub with a roaring log fire and a nice selection of single malts. Not that I need much of an excuse :)
Severn Bore?
Pumps send water uphill, don't they ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
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