Good luck with the storm, Gang !
Never be surprised if we didn't get power cuts here, at the very least.
It's eerily still outside....At the mo'. :-SS
I'm planning on popping down to the village, early this morning, for a few bits and pieces.....Then it's back home, and batten down the hatches.
(If it's THAT bad tomorrow. I might not even bother to go and get a paper.) ;)
Cheers - Phil
Keep your head down, Phil!
Corona and cyclones and bears, oh my...better not finish the bears yet, Phil.
Clara?
Surely you mean Ciara ;)
This is the closest I could get
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 08 February 2020, 07:39:33 AM
Corona and cyclones and bears, oh my...better not finish the bears yet, Phil.
;D ;D ;D
I've only got to do the ears, and the 'feet' on the last one (of the three*) now, Alexander...and then they can all go up to Leon for moulding...
then I can have some copies back to convert. :)
The 'problem' I have with the corona virus is.......The first time I read a headline about it, I read it as
coroner..a rather unfortunate 'mis-read'.......And I can't get that original 'pronunciation' out of my head !! ~X(
I'll keep my head down, Graham ! :)
WHO is Ciara.......I don't think we're expecting
her round here tomorrow. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
* The last of the three, being the standing upright pose, who fortunately doesn't resemble Bungle as much as he did originally. X_X
No major problems here.....
Good luck with all that!
I guess (hope) she will have lost a lot of her power by the time she gets to my place in the Netherlands near the German border. I need to paint models dammit; not fixing the shed!
Cheers,
Rob
I heard that it is likely the South East and East will now get the strongest winds over the next few days. For us it's likely to be around the 50mph mark, which is pretty strong.
Quote from: Techno on 08 February 2020, 07:30:02 AM
Good luck with the storm, Gang !
Never be surprised if we didn't get power cuts here, at the very least.
It's eerily still outside....At the mo'. :-SS
I'm planning on popping down to the village, early this morning, for a few bits and pieces.....Then it's back home, and batten down the hatches.
(If it's THAT bad tomorrow. I might not even bother to go and get a paper.) ;)
Cheers - Phil
Due in the West of Scotland around midday.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 08 February 2020, 08:31:00 AM
No major problems here.....
Yet, Ian....I think you're due for a bit of 'nastiness' over the next 24/36 hours.
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 08 February 2020, 08:40:30 AM
Good luck with all that!
I guess (hope) she will have lost a lot of her power by the time she gets to my place in the Netherlands near the German border. I need to paint models dammit; not fixing the shed!
Cheers,
Rob
I think you're right, Rob !
Quote from: Steve J on 08 February 2020, 09:14:47 AM
I heard that it is likely the South East and East will now get the strongest winds over the next few days.
Yep....Heard/seen that too.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 08 February 2020, 09:36:49 AM
Due in the West of Scotland around midday.
I think that the West of Scotland are going to have TWO goes.
Let's hope that 'they' are 'over egging' the warnings........They always seem to ere on the side of bad news, ever since that nice Mr Fish did his classic...."There IS no hurricane due." ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. (Hoping that this will be another damp squib !)
Quote from: Techno on 08 February 2020, 10:00:23 AM
Let's hope that 'they' are 'over egging' the warnings........They always seem to ere on the side of bad news, ever since that nice Mr Fish did his classic...."There IS no hurricane due."
I think that
technically he was absolutely correct. IIRC my meteorology, a hurricane is a storm centered on high pressure, and the winds blow in a clockwise direction. What we had in . . . 1987, was it? . . . (and what we always get here in the UK) was a storm centered around a low pressure area, and winds going counter-clockwise..
We may have had hurricane-strength winds, but it wasn't a hurricane! Not that you care much either way if your roof has blown off . . .
Aweful lot of Ireland tween me and Atlantic, unlike your location.
"Ireland won't make it any better, Ireland never makes anything any better", to quote Bernard, of happy memory.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 08 February 2020, 11:42:14 AM
Aweful lot of Ireland tween me and Atlantic, unlike your location.
Not by a lot, Ian. ;D......West to East.
But the way the weather comes 'up' from the jet stream......I'll let you off. ;)
And what IS this non event's name ?....It seems to be morphing all the time......It started off with L (Lima) as the second letter...and now it seems to be I (India).....
Gotta go.....
More dog puke to clean up. X_X...I lead such an exciting life.
Cheers - Peed Off of Wales. :(
Good luck to all in the path of the storm
Quote from: Steve J on 08 February 2020, 09:14:47 AM
I heard that it is likely the South East and East will now get the strongest winds over the next few days. For us it's likely to be around the 50mph mark, which is pretty strong.
;D I live in Wellington, NZ
| 248km/h 154m/h | The highest gust of wind ever recorded in Wellington |
| 233 days | Winds topped gale-force (63km/h 39m/h) in Wellington's windiest year |
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About 10 miles south of central Glasgow.
The storm arrived a couple of hours (fashionably) late.
Proceeded to deliver high winds from about 15:00 and Rain around an hour later.
Sitting inside and watching the telly I can report that one rugby game was ruined, but our aerial appears to have survived.
Wind has calmed down now, but there's plenty of rain falling.
I think a second blow is expected tomorrow.
Also confirmed (as we suspected) that our old double glazing fails the Everest falling feather test. Currently calm as I write so risked taking out the wheel bins for the garbage collection tomorrow. Half expecting the contents to be strewn all over the street when I wake up tomorrow. Que sera!
Think she has arrived in Leighton Buzzard, strongly enough to wake up my youngest.
Coo....
It ain't 'arf windy here, at the mo' ! :o :o
Woke me at 5, this morning and it certainly hasn't dropped yet...I think it's supposed to get up to almost 80mph later....here, anyway...and I don't think we've got the worst of it !!
Thought I'd visit the forum while the power's still working.
The RNLI have put up a live feed from, Porthcawl www.porthcawl-lifeboat.co.uk/live-streaming/
I'm hoping no-one will be daft enough to walk down the breakwater, later. X_X
It was good while it was still quite dark......There looked to be shooting stars whizzing across the screen every so often...that or tracer bullets. :o
I imagine those must have been particular droplets of water being caught in the floodlights at the right angle, every so often.
I'm sure there'll be much more 'spectaclier' images on the news later !
Stay safe, Guys !!
Cheers - Phil
Yep, blowing it's butt off here and due to get windier mid-afternoon. No rain yet though. Got woken up by someones recycling bin blowing down the street.
Hey, Ho.
Just going outside to brave the wind* X_X.....The 'field' animals need checking =)
Can't decide whether it's a waste of effort to put any feed out for the wild birds, this morning. :-\
1) The feed's going to get blown all over the place, and probably washed away by the rain.
2) Are any of the birds actually going to be flying around this morning ?...Or are they going to be sensible (unlike me) and just hunker down ?
I think I'll put a little bit of feed down and see what happens....If the poor little sods ARE out in this, they'll need something to keep their energy levels up !
* I may be some time. ;)
Cheers - Phil (Take care, Steve !)
Short bursts of heavy rain and stronger than normal wind, but not too bad.
I got wet. ;D
But nowhere NEAR as waterlogged as I thought I'd get.
Very windy....But we've definitely had a lot worse, in the past. (To the point where I could barely stand upright......That wasn't the case this morning.)
The lid on one of the water butts had gone for a wander....and the biggest of the bird seed holders had done the same....few small branches down in the road. (Big twigs, rather than branches. ;))
Bit of damage to some of the slats on the barn......Another repair job in the Spring. =)
Most of the wild birds have decided to 'stay in bed' ...a tiny handful came down, to get some grub.
Cheers - Phil
Good to see you didn't do a Captain Oates ;)
;D ;D ;D
Thank you, Paul. ;)
Just had a quick look at that live feed......Nowhere near as 'nasty' as it was earlier......But then, the tide's going out.
Saw three people going to the very beginning of the breakwater.......and they didn't appear to get wet, at all.
One chap, who I'm sure was taking piccies,didn't get any remotely spectacular shots as far as I could tell.
I'm going to have trawl round the net and see if I can find anymore feeds from around the coast.
Cheers - Phil
Really, really windy here with the strongest gusts we've seen for over 10 years. Our neighbours fence blown down with the posts snapped off at the base. Other fences wobbling rather alarmingly. Not looking forward to cycling to work tomorrow as it'll be a head wind all of the way and it gets funneled up the Avon valley, which makes it even worse.
Wet and wild in the Midlands atm. Sounded much worse last night! No traffic which is unusual - but our fences are so far intact which is amazing as we've one panel that pops if you sneeze at it!
Good luck for tomorrow, Steve......I certainly wouldn't fancy cycling into this strength head wind. :o
Just driven down to the local village.....Didn't really feel the little car 'slide', at all.
Cheers - Phil
Just hit here - cant see across road due to rain...
Quote from: Steve J on 09 February 2020, 07:18:31 AM
Got woken up by someones recycling bin blowing down the street.
Was it a blue one?
Looked out and mine was no longer there .....
(Later found it down the street. I had even put it on its side on the basis it was going to end up that way anyway, with the lid jammed shut. It was empty so I assume the bin men had been.)
One of our three bins has gone over, green waste thankfully, didn't spill.
Storm, what storm?
Been a touch breezy and a lot of rain.
Roof is still in place as is the garden fence.
Buckets are unmoved.
Checking out the sunscreen just in case :)
Ohh, and a fence panel has cracked
Just went out and secured the usual culprits. Trampoline, garden furniture and the little one's slide. Luckily i have a BIG supply of concrete 60 x 60 paving slabs. I removed them when i bought the house, but put them to the side. Very handy for putting on things and keep them down!
The worst of ciara is supposed to hit Belgium this evening so fingers crossed!
I think the worst just blew past here. Outside was not so much a shower as a bath...
Popped a fence panel - of one of the usual suspects, oddly, but I'll have to get the neighbour involved to pop it back in. Assuming it hasn't exploded...
Our garden is OK, other than a few pots blown over, but the whole fence is down (and shattered) next door but one. Fortunately our neighbour's landlord finally got around to replacing the rotten fence post on the fence next to us in the summer - it had been rocking around quite dramatically last winter.
Another neighbours fence panel gone. It's just been pouting down and the winds have been gusting like nobody's business, followed by sudden lulls. It's started to swing round now so other parts of the garden will take a beating :(.
Wind's just started to pick up again...having been through a relatively quiet period for two or three hours
Haven't seen anything like the amount of rain other parts of the UK have had.
Cheers - Phil
Hi
Just had an e-mail from my son's teacher to say no school (near Radstock, Somerset) tomorrow as the roof has blown off (partially at least)!
Just wondering if I can entice him into a Napoleonic game set in Germany, that will cover missing History, French and Geography, and if I can get Congreve's rockets in there as well that will be Science. Just need to figure out Philosophy and Belief........ :-
Cheers Paul
Philosophy - a well read officer (hah! They'd be in commerce, the church or government if they were well read, I know ;)) would have a passing knowledge of the classics, at least. Easy!
Seen the sad news on the IWM hangar at Duxford? Roof's coming off, there's a nine mile closure on the M11 it's so big. The Vulcans there, and Concorde, and... :S
Hadn't heard the news about the IWM Duxford. It's getting very windy again after a relatively quiet spell. I don't think we'll get much sleep tonight as it's pounding on the windows as I type.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 09 February 2020, 05:03:18 PM
Seen the sad news on the IWM hangar at Duxford? Roof's coming off, there's a nine mile closure on the M11 it's so big. The Vulcans there, and Concorde, and... :S
Sadly ironic. Most of the contents have been tested in wind tunnels but not the hangar itself ... (?) :(
Hope the damage to any of the planes is kept to an absolute minimum. Really enjoyed my trip there last summer.
I've not been, though it's not far up from some of the in laws. Mind I haven't been to RAF Cosford for donkeys and that's just up the road!
Hopefully nothing too delicate and irreplaceable gets exposed and hammered...
Well I missed the squalls that kept hitting our bedroom window during the night and got into work dry, which is always a bonus. Not as bad on the wind front as I feared and hope to get a nice tail wind home tonight.
Quiet as, on the weather front here... fence fixing time at lunch, I guess!
Worried about the tree in the back garden.
There wasn't a tree in the back garden on Saturday.
Friend of mine over on the southside had that... surprise tree in the back garden. She was going to chainsaw it up and dispose of, but the chainsaw's in the shed. Which the tree is in front of, blocking the door.
So now she owns two chainsaws, as a second was cheaper than getting anyone else to dispose of it for her :D
In the last 2 days I've acquired a collection of 3 trampolines - currently gathering snow.
No unwanted furniture here but it was a bit breezy this am
Conifers still in my neighbours garden, most of the branches foliage needles etc in mine and my gutters!
I disconnected all the phone lines, this afto'......
Putting the rubbish and recycling stuff out in a thunderstorm, while there was snow chucking down, and lightning was flashing all around.....That's gone now.....Hoo frigging ray.
Phil (I'm far too old for this poop.)
About half an inch of wet snow has turned up. That'll screw various things up. It may freeze overnight. That'll be fun.
We had vicious hail, then a ten minute lull, then half an hour of rubbish snow that just dissolved and then went. The wee one will be most unhappy unless she managed to get out into it whilst it came down, she loves a bit of snow! I'm just happy to have walked the dog at lunch, twenty mins before it hit :D
Sorry there is no Storm Clara , it is Storm Ciara - The Irish Met - being furthest west - get to name the storms, so they go with Gaelic names ! :)
I think someone gently ribbed Phil at the start of the thread about that, you may be a bit late :D
Just walked the mile and a half from the in-laws to the garage (car being fixed), drowned rat!
🛁🐀
Got soaked coming home and battered by hail stones as well :(.
We could use some of what you're getting. Our smog levels are murderous, and it's been going on a couple of weeks.
Burn MORE coal !!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 February 2020, 02:46:49 AM
We could use some of what you're getting. Our smog levels are murderous, and it's been going on a couple of weeks.
You might need to wait a while, Alexander......But
if we reach the letter 'K' it will be most apt.
It appears that the name of that storm will be "Kitty":D
Cheers - Phil
I like that. :)
Dennis next...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 February 2020, 09:52:23 AM
I like that. :)
I thought you would ! ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 February 2020, 12:58:29 PM
Dennis next...
Fairly shortly, I think !......This weekend ?? X_X
Cheers - Phil
Looks like a complete repeat of last weekend, but not quite as windy. Probably a good idea not to fix fence panels just yet...
Quote from: Sunray on 10 February 2020, 05:41:47 PM
Sorry there is no Storm Clara , it is Storm Ciara - The Irish Met - being furthest west - get to name the storms, so they go with Gaelic names ! :)
I think it's a joint effort between the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. So yes, lots of Irish names, should also be some Dutch?
I remember the first of these named storms - Abigail. The BBC weather presenters were so excited about it I thought they were going to wet themselves live on TV.
UK storm names 2019/20
Atiyah
Brendan
Ciara
Dennis
Ellen
Francis
Gerda
Hugh
Iris
Jan
Kitty
Liam
Maura
Noah
Olivia
Piet
Roisin
Samir
Tara
Vince
Willow
Certain letters get missed out.
Wot? No ...
Quentin, Ursula, Xavier, Yolanda or Zacariah?
Outrageous! :)
Just back from a stay in a cabin (well more like converted caravan) in the west of Ireland over the weekend. Was fairly sure we were going to have the whole thing blow down around us. Thankfully it proved sturdier than in appeared. Some wild weather for sure!
Bets on one of the tabloids using "Dennis the Menace" (or similar) as a headline this weekend ?
Cheers - Phil ;)
The Sun, and your on for a tenner !
If I were a bookie........You wouldn't like the odds that I'd give you on that, Ian ;)
Cheers - Phil
And then Storm Noah !! - flooding on a biblical scale ? :)
As we are discussing storms what is the difference between a Hurricane and a Typhoon (any answers involving 100kts, or 8 Rkts will result in instant expulsion !!!)
About four years in service date, a tail that doesn't fall off and an all metal wing?
No - out
QuoteAs we are discussing storms what is the difference between a Hurricane and a Typhoon
They are called one or the other depending upon where they occur as they are both tropical storms.
Agreed. (very) Simply hurricane in the Atlantic, typhoon in the western Pacific. Wikipedia will have more details if you're that interested.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 February 2020, 01:58:43 PM
As we are discussing storms what is the difference between a Hurricane and a Typhoon (any answers involving 100kts, or 8 Rkts will result in instant expulsion !!!)
Then you should not have capitalised either "Hurricane" or "Typhoon"?
I see that now they've given a 'proper name' to the coronavirus......I'll be getting that wrong too.
I read it as Corvid, and wondered what they'd got against members of the crow family. X_X
Cheers - Phil =)
Quote from: Techno on 12 February 2020, 05:43:46 PM
I read it as Corvid, and wondered what they'd got against members of the crow family. X_X
Ditto!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 February 2020, 01:58:43 PM
As we are discussing storms what is the difference between a Hurricane and a Typhoon
Ah! Welllllll ..
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 February 2020, 01:58:43 PM
(any answers involving 100kts, or 8 Rkts will result in instant expulsion !!!)
Dammit!
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".
That do you?
I understood that, up to "A hurricane". ;)
Quote from: Raider4 on 12 February 2020, 05:53:29 PM
Ditto!
I'm glad someone else thought that, Martyn !!
Best "Miss-see" I had was when I was walking down a street in Newark (Notts)..just casually looking around. There was a big advertising billboard at the end of the street.
I glanced at it and looked away.....And thought "WHAT".....You can't print F*CK in four foot letters on that.
(That was the first time I ever saw an advert for French Connection UK.)
If I'd been driving past, I wouldn't have been able to do a double take, and would have gone home and told Von....."You'll never guess what I saw down town." :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 12 February 2020, 10:33:23 PM
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".
That do you?
And by the time they reach New Zealand they're known as "ex-tropical cyclone"
Quote from: mad lemmey on 12 February 2020, 10:33:23 PM
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".
That do you?
Thanks Will, what I were lookin for
Quote from: Techno on 13 February 2020, 07:14:41 AM
Best "Miss-see" I had was when I was walking down a street in Newark (Notts)..just casually looking around. There was a big advertising billboard at the end of the street.
I glanced at it and looked away.....And thought "WHAT".....You can't print F*CK in four foot letters on that.
(That was the first time I ever saw an advert for French Connection UK.)
I always mis-read
Extreme Fishing in the TV book . . .
Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 February 2020, 08:47:10 AM
Thanks Will, what I were lookin for
You didn't need to ask Ian, you could have just looked out the window; it was very visible ;)
Can I help you with any more Hurricane questions, or are we just typhooning around?
After that one I'd get a coat. Here is another one to contemplate - What is the difference between a boat and a ship....
Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 February 2020, 11:22:22 AM
After that one I'd get a coat. Here is another one to contemplate - What is the difference between a boat and a ship....
You can put a boat on a ship but you can't put a ship in a boat.
I dunno, is it a ship off the old block? I'll get me boat :D
I'll tell you what.
The wind's far stronger this weekend (Thank you Dennis)...
We're supposed to be getting deluged with rain.....Not happening...I think it's all being blown sideways over the border into the land of the Saesneg....so that nothing hits the ground here.
Stay safe, chums.
Cheers - Phil
You have your bloody rain back, and keep the wind - in other words its reversed here... :'( :'(
I can imagine, Ian. X_X
Take care, Matey.
Still blowing like a good 'un, here......But the wet stuff isn't having a chance to hit the ground.....It seems to be going right over the top of us, (at the mo') here in Pembrokeshire.
Some poor folk are in for an horrendous deluge. :(
Cheers - Phil
Like the one that's hitting here, ta!
Glad I caved to other half's "get panels nooooow" and prepared by having three fence panels delivered yesterday. We just had a FOURTH one go >_<
Slightly different wind direction so less chance of panels being damaged, which is nice. Bloomin' wet though :(.
Taking the cat to an emergancy vet in a storm (another fight, another abscess) ... nice
It never rains but it pours, eh.
Stay safe all
Adding insult to injury we now have a leaking dormer window in the loft. Yay.
Apparently parts of South Wales have a Red Warning for heavy rain, with up to 6" falling today :o :o :o. Hope everybody is OK and stays safe.
X_X
Sigh....Not much of a pain then, Nathan. :(...Bad luck, Matey.
Von and I were out at 1 this morning, diverting water from going into the storm drain, (a few paces from the back door) and instead sending it straight down the drive to join 'the river' that was the road.
Just so much wet stuff in/on the hills behind us, everything's just running straight off the surface and onto said road. The drains in the road simply can't cope with this volume of water.
The water on the road was running so fast, I could feel it trying to take my feet away.....Don't worry, it was only 2 inches deep, at the very most.
When it gets this bad the 'river' flows past the bottom of our drive......and then takes a sharp left down the track to our neighbours, opposite. (Making its way to one of the 'starts' of the river Cleddau).....The track was 'white water' early this morning. X_X......That means that track will be somewhat trashed, by now....I don't think it'll be usable to anything other than a tractor at the mo'.
Only seen that a couple of times since we've been here.
Just starting to get light, so I'll go and brave the rain and see what the road's like now.
The weather forecast seems a bit hit and miss over the last 24 hours. Last night we were due to have heavy rain and strong winds, all day, today....This morning it has us as light rain and heavy winds......even a bit of sunshine. :o (Shome mishtake, shoorly ?)
Lots of red weather warnings around here, Steve.....Nothing that should affect us personally.....I'm really sorry for those who are likely to have BIG problems.
I'll see what it's like a bit later......Maybe drive into the village for a paper.....I might walk up the road first, and check whether the 'culvert' between a couple of fields is blocked. It probably is...for the road to be running like it is....Just clearing that, seems to halve the amount of water running down the road.
It's certainly heaving it down, now !!
Cheers - Phil....As Paul says...Stay safe, Gang.
Not much weather here...
That's my good deed done for the day....(I hope !)
Cleared the crud off the top of a lot of the drains........Some still seem to be working in taking the water way.....And UNDER the road, where it should go. :-bd
Some of the others are well blocked.....Can't do anything about them.
Cleared the rubbish from the 'culvert'......That's now running like a good'un. :)....So there's not so much surface water running now.
I had to come back inside, before I'd seen the gees. It was 'clear' when I went out.....Then I got caught in a hailstorm.
My hands are sodding frozen. ;D ;D
As soon as this lot has gone over, I'll go outside again. =)
Cheers - Mr Soggy. ;)
Bloody hell Phil, that sounds like a lot less fun than our roof!
Good luck (and good digging!) :S
Well....
I reckon I've done a fair job...... :)
Yes....It's a tiny bit of a pain...but in truth not that bad......Not what some folk are going to have to deal with. :( X_X
The road is still 'running'....But it's not over the whole of the tarmac, anymore....So I know I've done a half decent job.
The three 'outside' cobs looked somewhat peed off when I found them....I think they were after their water wings !
Now.....Out, again.....and brush as much of the water that's seeped into the big barn, and send it down the drive, before having 'brunch'.
Cheers - Mr Slowly Drying Out. ;)
Quote from: Techno on 16 February 2020, 10:44:23 AM
Cheers - Mr Slowly Drying Out. ;)
Didn't know you were an alcoholic Phil :D
That sounds like more than a "fair" job!
It'll do for the time being. ;)
Cheers - Phil (Currently holding back from sending a "Why is THIS news so important," to the BBC.......They're getting more and more like the truly awful tabloid papers.....AAAARGH !! >:( )
Stroll on....There's a yellow ball in the sky....They weren't lying......apparently.
.
Quote from: Steve J on 16 February 2020, 07:20:59 AM
Apparently parts of South Wales have a Red Warning for heavy rain, with up to 6" falling today :o :o :o. Hope everybody is OK and stays safe.
It's why coracles were invented.
There's a 'coracle centre' on the way to the vets, that we use for the mutts....
Never visited it. :P...Can't even remember the name of the village.
Von's just told me it's Cenarth. :D
Cheers - Phil.
Coracles are awesome, Shrewsbury Town fan Fred Davies used to use one to retrieve balls from the River Severn!
https://youtu.be/9NKPMRkXLMo
https://www.shropshirestar.com/sport/football/shrewsbury-town-fc/2016/11/15/coracle-gift-a-reminder-of-shrewsbury-towns-rich-history/
Quote from: toxicpixie on 16 February 2020, 11:42:19 AM
That sounds like more than a "fair" job!
Seconded =D> =D> =D>
Final job was to replace a top rail on part of the fencing, before the cobs got moved into a field where there's at least some grass.
Not long before the grass starts growing like mad....and we'll be trying to keep the horses from getting too fat !! X_X
The village where there's the coracle centre is, is on the 'red' flood warning list now, as is the little bridge on the way to Von's Mum's care home.....That's a shame, they only just finished 'repairing' it a few months ago ! =)
Cheers - Phil
I didn't spot a "Dennis the menace" headline on any of the 'national' tabloids.....But one of our local rags couldn't resist the temptation. X_X
Cheers - Phil ;)
Once again wet and very windy :(. Bored of this weather now!
Went to the IWM in Manchester yesterday, and got soaked. Mind you I can claim almost £2 back on my train fare cause it broke on its way into Lime st, and was 20 mins late into Victoria !
Quote from: Steve J on 22 February 2020, 08:14:58 AM
Once again wet and very windy :(. Bored of this weather now!
Just very windy here....I think we're due for the wet stuff this afto'.....Yep....I'm more than bored with it as well.
Really shouldn't complain. There are an awful lot of folk who have had it SO, SO much worse than us.
I can't imagine how I'd feel to have the home flooded. X_X :(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 22 February 2020, 08:27:39 AM
Went to the IWM in Manchester yesterday, and got soaked. Mind you I can claim almost £2 back on my train fare cause it broke on its way into Lime st, and was 20 mins late into Victoria !
That doesn't sound too much fun, Ian. Apart from that...did you have a good day ?
Cheers - Phil
OI !
They're making it up as they go along. :o
Am I reading/hearing things correctly.....That the storm, hitting us this weekend/now, is called Jorge...and not Ellen....(Something to do with the Spanish weather folk* naming this one first ??...Eh ??.....Why hasn't it got a Spanish name beginning with E, then ?)
Cheers - Confused of Wales. (* I am not trying to spell 'metierollogysts' at this time of the morning. :P)
Quote from: Techno on 22 February 2020, 10:16:01 AM
That doesn't sound too much fun, Ian. Apart from that...did you have a good day ?
Cheers - Phil
No probs really - Lime St is well covered, the train was comfortable, Manchester - Rainy (surprise surprise) Museum good, although the Matilda was in a Caunter cammo of Sand(ok). Lt BUle(OK) and Brown :'( :'( :'(, obviously using the Bovy colour plan !
Quote from: ianrs54 on 28 February 2020, 08:34:37 AM
although the Matilda was in a Caunter cammo of Sand(ok). Lt BUle(OK) and Brown :'( :'( :'(, obviously using the Bovy colour plan !
I thought it was the blue that was the problem with the commonly-seen "Caunter" camo?
I think this is now the 4th weekend in a row with gale force winds and rain in Bristol :(. Mind you we are very lucky compared to other parts of the country.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 28 February 2020, 08:34:37 AM
No probs really - Lime St is well covered, the train was comfortable, Manchester - Rainy (surprise surprise) Museum good, although the Matilda was in a Caunter cammo of Sand(ok). Lt BUle(OK) and Brown :'( :'( :'(, obviously using the Bovy colour plan !
Did you gently correct them in your own inimitable style, Ian :D
And if so, were escorted from the Museum upright or unconscious :D
No didna say ouwt, honest !
Quote from: Steve J on 28 February 2020, 09:13:46 AM
I think this is now the 4th weekend in a row with gale force winds and rain in Bristol :(. Mind you we are very lucky compared to other parts of the country.
It's certainly chucking it down hard here, in Pembrokeshire, Steve.....Don't think the wind has picked up to the full extent yet.....But there's a river running down the road....once again.
Like you, we're feeling very fortunate we haven't suffered the way so many people have....So I shouldn't moan.
Genuinely feel SO sorry for them....That must be absolutely heartbreaking, to have your home filled with feet of water. (And worse). :(
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 28 February 2020, 07:31:59 AM
OI !
They're making it up as they go along. :o
Am I reading/hearing things correctly.....That the storm, hitting us this weekend/now, is called Jorge...and not Ellen....(Something to do with the Spanish weather folk* naming this one first ??...Eh ??.....Why hasn't it got a Spanish name beginning with E, then ?)
Cheers - Confused of Wales. (* I am not trying to spell 'metierollogysts' at this time of the morning. :P)
Because if it hits Spain first, they get to name it.
That makes sense, Will :)
Have to admit I was assuming everything that tracks across the Atlantic, would hit Ireland and the West side of the UK mainland before Spain.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Steve J on 28 February 2020, 09:13:46 AM
I think this is now the 4th weekend in a row with gale force winds and rain in Bristol.
Probably just as well, kept the crowds away from the demo in town. Honestly, I know sod all happens around here (apart from the odd Bansksy appearing*), but the hype around this visit by Greta Thurnberg is just ridiculous. The local media couldn't be more excited (or patronising - speciallity of the BBC . . .).
Quote from: Steve J on 28 February 2020, 09:13:46 AM
Mind you we are very lucky compared to other parts of the country.
Oh, agreed. I feel really sorry for all of those folks who've been flooded out.
* Another middle class hype that the beeb especially seem to love. I'm with whoever sprayed "winker" in bright pink over the latest one.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 28 February 2020, 10:06:08 AM
No didna say ouwt, honest !
Crikey, were you well?!
Reminds me, I must check the loft-bucket for roof-water later.
Roofer says five grand to replace the roof, can't do a patch as the current patch is fine but the sh*te job some previous owner did on the Dormer means a whole new membrane and a load of tiling replacement and... still, only looks to be an actual problem on the rare once a decade storms. That we now get yearly.
"Yay".
So bucket time it is!
That doesn't sound fun. X_X
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 28 February 2020, 07:31:59 AM
OI !
They're making it up as they go along. :o
Am I reading/hearing things correctly.....That the storm, hitting us this weekend/now, is called Jorge...and not Ellen....(Something to do with the Spanish weather folk* naming this one first ??...Eh ??.....Why hasn't it got a Spanish name beginning with E, then ?)
Cheers - Confused of Wales. (* I am not trying to spell 'metierollogysts' at this time of the morning. :P)
Foreigners! Always skipping the queue. :P
Yeah, it's not great. On the plus side we're not like the poor sods down in Ironbridge etc :/
SO true, Matey.
Cheers - Phil