Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Best Wishes, Calum - and congrats to the sprog! Hope it's as glorious in Oxford tomorrow as it has been in the Pennines today!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

many thanks all .... of course being Oxford the degree was gained last summer ....

[antongould]

many thanks all .... of course being Oxford the degree was gained last summer ....

Hope you have a great day Calum.

[BBMmk2]

Had a rather busy day yesterday,(that's why you folks thought ahh BBM....?:)), and had a great jamming session and a couple of pints thrown in!! A quieter day today. Have to go into work for a short while, and then back home to write more music, which is a transcription I am still doing! Then tomorrow, another jamming session and barbeque!! Yay!!

[Petrushka]

Where's the promised good weather? Had some heavy showers here this morning and currently looks to be brewing up for another one. It's not very warm either with a stiff breeze blowing. Disappointing.

[greenilex]

Somewhat uneasy today (to put it mildly) at the latest Israeli sturm und drang.

Apocalyptikos here we come?

Sorry to put a damper on any sunshine you may be enjoying.

[Anna]

Thank you, Anna, that was fascinating. Yes, I'm sure some of it is folklore, but the bit about the millstone must be correct, otherwise he'd never have got to Cornwall.

Researching St. Piran I found a story by Arthur Quiller-Couch about the millstone legend. It appears St. Piran lived in a mill and liked to spend his days in idleness and, having discovering that the river miraculously transformed wood or cork into stone, spent his days lying on the riverbank, drinking beer, whistling, and whittling ornaments or charms which he then tied together with string, immersed them in the river, waited until they had petrified and sold them to the peasants for a tidy sum.

He was asked by the ten Kings of Ireland if he could produce a feast for three weeks for them and their armies whilst they conferred and signed a peace treaty. This he did – but after eating and drinking the Kings felt slighted that there was not more and he was too clever by half, so had an Indignation Meeting. Aware that they had no real reason to impeach him they roused a rabble of peasants and accused him of living without visible means of support and neglecting his saintly duties and miracles.

But, replied St. Piran, I have visible means of support, look at my pretty petrified trinkets that I make money from and – look at my millstone, isn’t it grand? At that the crowd surged up and tied him to the millstone and threw him into the storm tossed sea.

The next thing that the rabble saw as they craned over the cliff was St. Piran floating quietly out to sea on the millstone, for all the world as if on a life-belt, and untying his bonds to use for a fishing-line! You see, this millstone had been made of cork originally, and was only half petrified. When he had finished undoing the cords, he stood up and bowed to them all very politely. "Visible means of support, my children, visible means of support” he called back and proceeded to fish for mackerel all the way to Cornwall.

I think that's a charming story.

[Thropplenoggin]

Packing. Cleaning. Charity shop. Déchèterie.

Packing. Cleaning. Charity shop. Déchèterie.

Packing...etc., etc.

Weather vaguely glimpsed at through windscreens and windows. One day to go.

[Serial_Apologist]

Absolutely spectacular sunset over London right now - rays illuminating the undersides of a layer of bubble-wrap cloud vivid pink!

[Anna]

rays illuminating the undersides of a layer of bubble-wrap cloud vivid pink!

Can I have some of what S_A's on please?
There is merely a couple of mucky inky fingerprints spread across the sky in the west

[BBMmk2]

Lovely story, there Anna! Thank you!

I hope the weather picks up, although it does seem that there maybe rain later this week!?!?!?

[Thropplenoggin]

I have obviously piqued no one's interest in my forthcoming removal and yet questions about moss receive a lush response. Vive l'indifference!

[BBMmk2]

I see Thropps! Good luck!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have obviously piqued no one's interest in my forthcoming removal and yet questions about moss receive a lush response. Vive l'indifference!

We're obviously more interested in how to kill things on this Thread (hence all the comments on detective dramas?) than on removals.

But seriously; I hope all goes better than you'd even hoped and that your CD collection etc arrives together at the correct address in one undamaged piece. And welcome back to Blighty once you get here.

[DracoM]

Well, if this is the much-promised Bank Holiday weather, I want out.
Up here on the fells, it is sheeting down with rain, has been for hours, driven by brisk and not very friendly westerly, and visibility is such that i cannot actually see the tops of any hills in any direction.

Huh!