Stormy Weather

[salymap]

No I haven't heard it yet S_A. I know of at least one MBer who would share your view of that composer but I mustn't speak for him.

[BBMmk2]

I rememebr playing Grimethorpe Aria , way backk in 1975 at Lancaster University. It's a great pity that as far as brass bands are concerned that there a few and far between works in this genre. Yes we do have great music, eg 'Dove Descending', 'Titan's Progress', 'On the Shoulders of Giants', 'Visions of Gerontius', etc. It would be good to have more shall I say, avant garde approach?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Tripoli is falling, so is the economy, etc etc .... and yet the only question of the day will be answered at the Oval and heavens fine weather is promised!

today i must pull the house apart so a nice chap with a very big machine can wash the carpets .... this will mean dismantling the computers [box is misnomer eh ... cables and plugs and other bits all over the place] and the music and the tv and might even poke me into sorting out the books ... still a few hundred in boxes so some painful decisions ... it can rain all it wants tomorrow we will be shampooing indoors ...

[salymap]

Calum, where are you going while it dries. Mustn't walk on it for a bit. Have fun anyway, I'd rather do it room by room on different days with my own carpet shampoo.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

dunno salymap .... yes me too but he has a very BIG machine and i have seen the results he gets and my the carpet needs 'refreshing'! .... could do worse than tootle up to the smoke, stay with sprog and go to a prom.... or more likely spend the later part of the day in bed!

[Serial_Apologist]

dunno salymap .... yes me too but he has a very BIG machine and i have seen the results he gets and my the carpet needs 'refreshing'! .... could do worse than tootle up to the smoke, stay with sprog and go to a prom.... or more likely spend the later part of the day in bed!

Stilts... get some stilts... short ones

[vinteuil]

Stilts... get some stilts... short ones

... or pattens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patten_(shoe)

[Serial_Apologist]

... or pattens


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patten_(shoe)

They don't sell them down my burned out sports gear shop any more

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well S_A you will just have to go barefooted like me

[Serial_Apologist]

well S_A you will just have to go barefooted like me

He looks like my Irish friend Tom

[salymap]

Very wet in this part of Kent. Rather than a husky with a sled, a boat might be needed soon.

Hope all have a good day.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very wet in this part of Kent. Rather than a husky with a sled, a boat might be needed soon.

Hope all have a good day.

Seems the worst of it will be over in the next few hours. Most disappointing: I was seriously expecting to be woken at 4 am with flashes and bangs aplenty accompanying sounds of a waterfall.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i do think we should run a validity check on the bbc weather forecasts .... the rain is falling here but not in torrents [yet!]

...meanwhile carpet is now clean, all me bits and bobs are stacked in the kitchen and central heating and dehumidifier going full pelt .... carpet cleaners were a very nice couple, he had clearly become an enthusiast for the practice and chemistry of cleaning ... happy to pass on details via private message if anyone in middle kingdom region might be curious ...

[Serial_Apologist]

i do think we should run a validity check on the bbc weather forecasts .... the rain is falling here but not in torrents [yet!]

...meanwhile carpet is now clean, all me bits and bobs are stacked in the kitchen and central heating and dehumidifier going full pelt .... carpet cleaners were a very nice couple, he had clearly become an enthusiast for the practice and chemistry of cleaning ... happy to pass on details via private message if anyone in middle kingdom region might be curious ...

Last night's forecasting detail was a real cliff-hanger: the storms were over the Channel just off Dover, ready to push northwest; would the deepening low move up from France to engage the Spanish plume over SE England, or Belgium? They slightly miscalculated: for one thing, the low didn't deepen as much as expected: a matter of a few millibars. (Nearly wrote millibands!) These very slow-moving situations can be like that.

Really glad to hear you've been properly carpeted, calum! And have the cleaners made a pile??

[greenilex]

Don't know about milibands but am currently in the Mid West (Iowa) where a summer storm threatens. It is very dark and there was thunder earlier. They do have some humdingers, super-sized like many other things around here...