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  • Anna

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ... In the Chilterns, on the uplands between Stokenchurch and Christmas Common the woodland floor a sea of bluebells - marvellous.
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    I shall be there on Thursday... I hope the bluebells will survive till then...
    Crikey! What's going on? A Masonic ritual, or someone leading someone down the Primrose Path .......

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Crikey! What's going on? A Masonic ritual, or someone leading someone down the Primrose Path .......
      Just one of those coïncidences, as vinsanto is wont to say....
      "...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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      • Anna

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Just one of those coïncidences, as vinsanto is wont to say....
        Oh, that's a shame!! I had just thought of this:

        Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
        Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
        Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
        Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
        And recks not his own rede

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Are we going to get a spring, I ask myself? Are we going to get a summer. I ask myself!?!?!?
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • greenilex
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1626

            My garden bluebells are surviving well as I write, being the Spanish interloper variety and as tough as old boots. But I suspect the ones by the front door are natives, as they are darker and slender-stemmed with florets only on one side.

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Just heard on Radio 3 that the Daily Express saids this summer goiung to be another wash out!?!?!?!?
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                Just heard on Radio 3 that the Daily Express saids this summer goiung to be another wash out!?!?!?!?
                And on the lunchtime weather, wet snow predicted tomorrow for south Wales and northwest England.........

                Anna: two pairs of socks tomorrow, please!
                "...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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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  I think it's thje Jetstream again!!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37637

                    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                    I think it's thje Jetstream again!!
                    Don't believe the Daily Depress, BBM, says a very irritated Brummie Simon; and I concur. At least temperatures are what they should be for... April... and predictions are for it to warm up in the last week of the month, as happened last year; in 2012 it was downhill all the way from then on, whereas this year it's predicted to stay warm well into June.

                    We just have to get tomorrow's downpour out of the way. I shall probably have to forego my Tuesday night out, having acquired a stiff neck from fiddling around with a puncture out in the cold wind yesterday.

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      And on the lunchtime weather, wet snow predicted tomorrow for south Wales and northwest England.........
                      Anna: two pairs of socks tomorrow, please!
                      I've just heard that forecast .... Apart from the wet snow it's predicting up to 50mm (2") of rain, strong winds and daytime temps not over 7° And to think last Tuesday was our hottest day of the year here at 21.7° !!!
                      At 6.30am today it was a clear blue sky and sunshine, looked promising but it was soon back to sunny spells, a very cold wind and short, sharp, showers. It's now totally grey and raining hard. At least while it stays cool the grass won't grow (my lawnmower expired in a puff of blue smoke and a horrible smell of burning so I've arranged for someone to come round and cut it)

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12799

                        ... Anna - you're havin' a bad week for things mechanical - if it ain't the kettle it's the mower! - Wretched when these things all bunch up, as they tend to *.

                        And no prospect of any pertick'ly nice weather to cheer us up, neither!

                        But you know you can get lots of comforting hugs from people here when needed...


                        * www.umass.edu/wsp/statistics/lessons/poisson/

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Don't believe the Daily Depress, BBM, says a very irritated Brummie Simon; and I concur. At least temperatures are what they should be for... April... and predictions are for it to warm up in the last week of the month, as happened last year; in 2012 it was downhill all the way from then on, whereas this year it's predicted to stay warm well into June.

                          We just have to get tomorrow's downpour out of the way. I shall probably have to forego my Tuesday night out, having acquired a stiff neck from fiddling around with a puncture out in the cold wind yesterday.
                          Well, quite honestly, SA, I think the weather people do not really know how to work out what the weather patterns are going to be.Ok, 24 hrs but even then a wind change and it's completely different?
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37637

                            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                            Well, quite honestly, SA, I think the weather people do not really know how to work out what the weather patterns are going to be.Ok, 24 hrs but even then a wind change and it's completely different?
                            Well, BBM , with all their equipment making billions of microjudgements every second all over the world, "they" have got predictions pretty well sown up for five days ahead nowadays - which was certainly not the case back in October '87, when if they had known the exact course and velocity of the jet stream they would have been in a position to forecast the hurricane more accurately. Beyond that it's a bit more than guesswork, as they take historical precedents and weigh them up. And they have a growing archive of these to draw on. The only areas of accuracy still lacking to some extent consist in predicting where precisely showers will occur in a given showery situation, but they are getting better at this.

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                            • salymap
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5969

                              I can putupwith the rain now and again, it's this pesky high wind I hate. Have drawn curtains and shall watch Eggheads and see what else is available.

                              Hav a nice evening all.

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                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                Thank you SA. Yes salymap, the cold is rather annoying!
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

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