Stormy Weather

[salymap]

Must be well over 84f in my sheltered garden. Too hot for the birds apparently. Would like to see some starlings rooting for leatherjackets before they become a nuisance as daddy-longlegs.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, it maxed out at a modest 23 C (73 F) here in S Dulwich this afternoon, ( 10 degs F above the late September average, mind), but I've only just this minute come in from sunbathing in the garden.

[marthe]

Another warm, sunny day here! The QM II is in the harbor...and what a beautiful boat she is! She's much nicer than some of those other cruise ships that look like skyscrapers towering over the Newport waterfront. I spent the day at an antique furniture symposium listening to furniture experts talk about 18th-century Newport and Boston furniture. I have now learned all I need to know about claw-and-ball (or ball-and-claw) feet, turned stretchers, balloon seats, and dovetail joints! Just now (9:30 PM EDT) rain showers are moving through.

[eighthobstruction]

Cheers folks....golden golden....

[BBMmk2]

Another hot day. Indian Summer? Certainly is(well nearly!!:))

[Mahlerei]

Buns snuggled up to bottles of frozen water and Sky at the top of the stairs gnawing a big chunk of ice.

[marthe]

Brrr! No Indian summer where you are! We're having a dreary, foggy day. I feel even more dreary now that I've read an article, posted by my daughter, about what happens to unwanted cats and dogs at pet shelters after they have outstayed their 72 hour time limit. My daughter has several lovely, well-cared for cats (all spayed or neutered).

[greenilex]

We'll be seeing QM2 back soon at Ocean Terminal, I imagine.

The front-room pigeons are back and deep in moult, peering through my window and looking as though they'd be happier indoors. But they are mucky creatures and would have to be really sick for me to open the sash. Psittacosis, perhaps?

[BBMmk2]

I have played on the QE1, quite a few years ago now!!

Still the heatwave continues!

[Mahlerei]

Yes, very warm here too. Sky enjoying her ice again. Will give her a bath on the weekend, when it's likely to be even hotter.

[BBMmk2]

I have a jam session this Sunday! I hoping it going to be cooler!!

[eighthobstruction]

Today I have been doing the most odious and carcinogenic task a potter can do [besides inhaling neat quartz]....grinding kiln shelves while reconfigering my kiln pack....heat, sweat, dust , noisy power tools at 50,000rpm....
Back in dark to walk dogs after a good helping of PJH....Mykey insists on treating dark as light, and still expects me to find his bloomin stick, so by a sliver of a new moon we fight, he with agility and fortitude....me with my walking stick [essential night time walk implement for walking thro' woods], a few scurmishes, he wins some, I win some, there's the odd yelp from both us as he gets hit and I walk into walls, or pick up a bramble instead of the stick....home to Guinness....and a bath to get rid of all this dust.........

[marthe]

Indian Summer is on-again-off-again here. Today it was warm and sunny; tomorrow it's supposed to rain again. Mahlerei: I'm glad your buns and Sky are staying cool with their chunks of ice!

29 years ago, the QEII mde her first appearance in Newport. Everyone came out to have a look and snap photos. I snapped away with the best of them and found, to my disappointment, that in my snaps this grand ship resembled a bathtub toy. I remember this time well because my daughter was born about six weeks later. It's hard to imagine that my children are now nearly thirty and that larger and larger cruise ships have been visiting Newport for nearly three decades.

[salymap]

I remember 70 odd years ago when I was very small my father holding me up on a sea wall to see the Normandie sail past.
It was considered large in the 1930s, I wonder when it went out of cruise service?

[mercia]

I wonder when it went out of cruise service?

according to wikipedia, SS Normandie was in service 1935 - 1942, when she caught fire when being converted to a troopship. And scrapped in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie