Calm and sunny all day yesterday but mega-storm on the way according to the Met Office (but what do they know?)

Well Friday night was a barrel of laughs.

Sound of a small cannon ball hitting our house was not too fun 

Went out in to rain and wind and nearly lost my head. In the morning I found one of those stupid round metal spinny things that sit on chimmneys . Oh and half my roof tiles all over the place. Some impaled 4" into the ground!

I now have half a roof and someones elses spinny thing (not even scratched!) which I am willing to install free of charge up their jacksy.

Sigh, no new toys this year 

Quote from: kev1964 on 13 February 2014, 05:18:59 PM
Sounds pretty rough over there, my sons based at Gosport so i would imagine on sandbag duty this week. Had shed loads of snow a couple of weeks ago here in Hungary but sunshine today , not really had a proper winter this year,( yet) maybe a surprise or two still to come,


kev

I am glad I no longer live in the basement flat in Southsea that I used to

QuoteSigh, no new toys this year

Your house insurance should cover this I would have thought.

For us we survived with no damage which suprised me given that we had around 12 hours of continuous gale force winds. However plenty of trees down and missing fence panels in our area .

I lost my BBC channels on youview, but that is all.

IanS

Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 February 2014, 04:08:54 PM
I lost my BBC channels on youview, but that is all.

IanS

Are you writing to your MP about it?

I feel for you guys in the u.k.
Here in Ghana when it rains, its like having a bucket of water thrown at you...the wind storms are small, but however, my garden umbrella, enjoys random flights,
Only down side is after the rain, Cobras and the like start moving around, so all my staff reach for their Machete...
My garden path is a no go zone at the moment due to a Black Mamba sitting in a bush...
Even my staffy is not impressed by that...

That is one thing I do not miss about West Africa. My wife hates snakes with a vengeance, but then she has seen too many people die in her village from snake bites .

More than 500 people lost their lives in our last big floods here, a few years ago. Needless to say, Fanny Adams has been done about preparing for the nexxt ones.

I have a hose ban here, as some locals keep nicking the tap fixings, and one tap was completely stolen, leaving a fountain, in the villa garden.

its 25 degrees here and its passed midnight.....

Anybody would think you were in Africa.....

Least there are no snakes in Birkenhead.

IanS 

Quote from: marie on 02 March 2014, 11:42:51 AM
I have a hose ban here, as some locals keep nicking the tap fixings, and one tap was completely stolen, leaving a fountain, in the villa garden.

If only there was a way to export the rain that falls here.
We'd all be rich..........rich I tell you. (Maniacal laughter !)

We had a  'drought' yesterday.......So I had the joy of cleaning most of the guttering.
I've got the nasty high one one to do this morning......So if I'm absent for a while. it means I've fallen off the ladder.
Cheers - Phil.

If worse comes to worst, can I have your figures to cherish in memory of you?

There really aren't that many FK !
Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno on 09 March 2014, 09:23:10 AM
I've got the nasty high one one to do this morning......So if I'm absent for a while. it means I've fallen off the ladder.

Remember break your fall with your NON-scuplting hand 

Take it slow Mr Clumsy 

Back on solid ground now Paul.......Huzzah !
I really do NOT like that job.
Cheers - Mr Taking A Lot More Care Than Normal.

are you sure about the snakes, lol....
spotted a mamba today doing the Harlem shuffle to our river gardens, at least the guest was amused, as my assistant (the screaming female type)
let go an almighty asjghdgdhgyrsybnaaaaaaghhhh! and grabbed my guest,ha,ha...
Needless to say the snake escaped....as the security  guy was watching the female tennis match.....top totty......ha,ha,ha...

An eres me thinin youse all young and innocent ........

IanS 

I nearly caught the sun today,
The ref ruled pass interference though!