Once umpired a cricket match in June when "snow stopped play" on the NW Lancashire coast. We saw it coming for an hour!!
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That would probably have been on June 1 1975. Just a day or two later the temperature was in the 80's for the start of a major heatwave. Happy days!Originally posted by DracoM View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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a quote from a spokesman for Sutton and East Surrey Water "we are experiencing the wettest drought in living memory"Comment
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My sister flew to Germany today for two days in Cologne and then two days at the Floriad horticultural expo in Holland. She put her toms and courgettes outside yesterday as they were getting very drawn on the window sill. A neighbour spent last weekend potting up her tubs, boxes and hanging baskets, and has put them out (no room in their small lean-to greenhouse) but there have been some vicious hailstorms here, but it's only mid-May, surely there have always been frosts until the end of May? Nare cast a clout till May is out? However, it's lovely for it still to be light at 9.30pm isn't it and, now the rain has gone away, to be able to sleep with bedroom windows open?Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostComment
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Marthe the hyundai accent is a great car! I've had the car a few months now. Very reliable!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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1975 and 1976 were both hot summer - 1976 was hot the longer, 1975 the year when it snowed in the Peak district. Donna Summers! (Not to be confused with Doner Kebabs - a genuine excuse for a skive with tummy problems, I well remember)Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Have you been sniffing the turps, S_A?
So are rumours (a.k.a. the utterances of Deakin of the Met) correct in suggesting warmer more stable weather next week?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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As S-A says both were hot summers and let's say I have good reasons to remember both of them with much affection. The 1975 heatwave commenced on my 21st birthday. The 1976 one was in full swing by my 22nd. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven'.Originally posted by cloughie View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Too early to say I'm afraid, Caliban. The weather pattern's in flux at the moment.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
So are rumours (a.k.a. the utterances of Deakin of the Met) correct in suggesting warmer more stable weather next week?Comment
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BBM: I'm quite liking my Hyundai Accent. It's economical and great to drive around, find parking etc. Now that the "season" is almost here, traffic and parking will become difficult as the hordes descend upon us for America's Cup trials and Tall Ships. Another reason why I bought from the local Hyundai dealership is that the owner is a great benefactor of local classical music programming, live and on the air.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostComment
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Still lots of a grey cloud here but higher and some brightness, breezes less chilly, small pale blue flutterbyes hassling the flowers
Saturday afternoon of the Lord's Test match and lo! - we have weak sunshine
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostStill lots of a grey cloud here but higher and some brightness, breezes less chilly, small pale blue flutterbyes hassling the flowersComment
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Cold this morning butwarmer weather promised later.Comment
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VH'mm. Reminds me of the customer who went to the grocer's one winter morning, to find the proprietor standing with his back to the stove.Originally posted by salymap View Post
"Is that your Ayrshire bacon?", she asked.Comment
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