Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

What weather it is down these parts, although not as bad as Soiuth Wales! Hows Anna?

Pull those trousers up quick, BBM!

[Nick Armstrong]

What weather it is down these parts, although not as bad as Soiuth Wales! Hows Anna?

Elbow deep in curry!

[Anna]

What weather it is down these parts, although not as bad as Soiuth Wales! Hows Anna?

How's Anna? Snowbound and pretty fed up, thanks for asking BBM I shall cook some rice shortly and have my curry and, if the satellite signal remains, will watch (Oh, I hate to admit this! Oh, The Shame, The Horror!) Coronation Street and then finish my book! Gosh, we know how to live it up here in Wales ......

[mangerton]

<sticky-out tongue emoticon>
Just been speaking to sister who is in County Durham, nary a snowflake there but since Sunday low temps of -8.5. She bought a load of veg and stored them in the shed, she went to get a cauliflower to make cauli cheese and found it frozen solid. (EightO - See how I've steered it round to food again!)
I'm making what I believe is called Murgh Kari, which is lamb, spinach, tomato with coconut cream, so it's hot and juicy but creamy. (Oops, there I go with food again ......!)

You really know how to hurt a man. Here am I, stuck in an office (ok, I had a sandwich an hour ago) with no prospect of hot food till about 8.45, and you're going on at great length about delicious sounding curries.

This is cruel and unusual punishment, I reckon. Would any lawyer care to offer an opinion?

Edit: Just seen the above. Serves you right, having to watch Coronation Street. Enjoy your curry.

[Anna]

This is cruel and unusual punishment, I reckon. Would any lawyer care to offer an opinion?

I can specialise, if needs be, without any legal intervention
Gosh, you can tell it's Friday Night and we are all carefree and reckless ...... I think I should now log-off ....

[Nick Armstrong]

You really know how to hurt a man. Here am I, stuck in an office (ok, I had a sandwich an hour ago) with no prospect of hot food till about 8.45, and you're going on at great length about delicious sounding curries.

This is cruel and unusual punishment, I reckon. Would any lawyer care to offer an opinion?

Ay, tis a cruell mystresse !

Sadly I don't think you have a claim. I would heap moral pressure on, in the hope of compensation in kind in due course

[eighthobstruction]

C Street....can't believe it....guilty pleasure eh?....they can't touch you for it!!

Snow just reached here....funny bitty grit stuff....

[Anna]

Ay, tis a cruell mystresse !
Sadly I don't think you have a claim. I would heap moral pressure on, in the hope of compensation in kind in due course

Aha! The old Merces Mercedis side step?

C Street....can't believe it....guilty pleasure eh?....they can't touch you for it!!

It was Cali that got me watching Corrie - he's glued to the omni every Sunday morning!

[Flosshilde]

Beautiful bright sunny day here & blue skies (why always in the plural? There's only one sky - or SKY, for Mr Pee's benefit ). No sign of snow, although there were one or two tiny flakes on Wednesday.

[Bryn]

Taking note of the weather forecast this morning I chose not to drive to work but to use buses to get there. O.K., I knew it would take around two and a half hours to get there, but getting home should be more certain than if I drove in and the car got snowed under. I got to work, and having done the usual start of day equipment checks I got a call on my mobile 'phone. Work had been cancelled for the day so I could go home. I would be paid as normal.

Everything started fine. I got a lift to a local bus station and quickly boarded the first of the three buses of my intended route home. The first change of buses went well too, with only a five minute wait. Then the trouble started. All was fine while in the bus lanes, but once they were gone the speed dropped to walking pace. Two stops short of the next bus station, where I was to change to the Greenline back home, the driver announced, out of the blue, that the journey was terminating on the instruction of his controller. Had it been the previous stop I could have made the change to the Greenline route there, but that service being of the limited stop variety, I was effectively stranded and had to watch my intended bus home sail past without stopping.

I walked the next two stops to the bus station and after waiting about a quarter of an hour a First Bus official turned up and announced that all bus services had been suspended due to the weather. I reminded him that at least two First run Greenline buses were by then on their way back from London, but he insisted that they must be out of service. First Group had thus decided to strand all its passenger, whether young or old, able of infirm, to fend for themselves. Fortunately, London United, a bus operator governed by Transport for London was still running its services, (there was really no valid reason for First Group to suspend its services - the road conditions were not that bad), so I used the same route I had used to get there to retrace my journey and then carry on to the most convenient rail station on the line to my home town. It took well over 2 hours to get to that station, due to the slow moving (but moving nonetheless) traffic. All in all the journey home took 6 hours (in normal conditions it's a 40 minute drive or around 150 minutes by buses).

Oh, and while traveling back from the bus station where it was claimed that all bus services had been suspended, the Greeenline buses returning in service from London did indeed pass, heading in the direction I had intended to have traveled. Surprise, surprise, I had been lied to by the First Bus official.

As far as I'm concerned it's about time that First Buses had their Operator's Licence revoked re. their Slough and Bracknell operations. Their attitude towards those who travel with them is nothing short of disgusting,and that does not relate only to today's irresponsible withdrawal of service.

[BBMmk2]

Sorry to hear of your current situation anna! poor you. i mean we have snow, but not like in yur area. Thinking of you

Weird, i thgink, in this weather and i have Sibelius's The Tempest on!! Sibelius!!

[eighthobstruction]

Tough luck there Bryn....nightmare!!

[Bryn]

Tough luck there Bryn....nightmare!!

I have just read on their website that First Bus has now resumed all services in the Slough and Bracknell areas, including the Greenline services they operate. That, despite what is clearly a deterioration in road conditions as the temperature drops again. I wonder if someone has reminded them of their public service requirements? That said, I also see that Thames Travel have suspended all their services in Bracknell indefinitely. However, their routes, unlike the Greenline routes, do include many roads the local council is notoriously bad at keeping gritted, including the one I live in.

[Anna]

Having seen Bryn's post I was tempted to post some Zappa and "Don't make a fuss, just get on the bus and be a crew slut!" But I fear the Telefunken references wll get frenchie''s TuK Tuks involved and stuck to the seats. So, I offer this whilst I go offline. It's Zappa playing Bolero. Can we expect this on Essential Classics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttVFpgObCo

[Beef Oven]

Having seen Bryn's post I was tempted to post some Zappa and "Don't make a fuss, just get on the bus and be a crew slut!" But I fear the Telefunken references wll get frenchie''s TuK Tuks involved and stuck to the seats. So, I offer this whilst I go offline. It's Zappa playing Bolero. Can we expect this on Essential Classics?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttVFpgObCo

I remember the radio 1 show with FZ talking through his forthcoming album and he played this track. Can you imagine how disappointed I was a couple of months later when the album appeared, sans Bolero due to copyright infringement!!!? Can't remeber when it was, maybe mid 80s?