Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

That would have been a dangerous line to utter, 550 years ago!!

Just as well i was'nt around then Cali!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope BBC1's Countryfile be good tonight, as they will have a feature on Kent. Where my family went to via Norfolk, after being booted out of Yorkshire!!(or was it Lancashire, one of the two!! )

Nobody gets booted out of Lancashire - they'll have anybody!

[Anna]

my family went to Kent via Norfolk, after being booted out of Yorkshire!!(or was it Lancashire, one of the two!! )

Most Royal families, when they were booted out were exiled to France. However BBM's ancestors were exiled to Norfolk! I don't know why I find that so funny ..... but it is!

Decorative tosh...

Nicely put Cali! Didn't grip me in the slightest. I'm looking forward to Les Revs tonight.

As to weather, just watched Brummie Simon's Sunday update, this week will be ok but perhaps unsettled beginning of July. He seemed rather subdued, then I saw he'd been getting some flak from the 'Warmists' http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtvsimonnew.php?ID=779
Anyway, wind seems to have got up again here, no point in planting dwarf beans and get them blown sideways, promised sunshine not materialised so no digging. However, it has been a restful (if non-productive) weekend.

[BBMmk2]

Ah, Anna, the King at the time(Richard II?), had my ancestor disenolbed(?), conviscated his lands and title, as he had killed another nobleman. He was one of John of Gaunt's sons

[Nick Armstrong]

Nobody gets booted out of Lancashire - they'll have anybody!

[Petrushka]

Windy and raining at intervals, sometimes quite heavily, but not for long. Wind is definitely picking up and much stronger than this morning. Not particularly warm either.

[Anna]

Ah, Anna, the King at the time(Richard II?), had my ancestor disenolbed(?), conviscated his lands and title, as he had killed another nobleman. He was one of John of Gaunt's sons

Did you know that Richard II invented the handkerchief? Not a lot of people know that, but an order from him to his tailor survives. (He was evidently a bit foppish, having been raised in France)
So, the son of John of Gaunt you are descended would be Henry Bolingbroke? Well, I shall do a cyber-curtsy My Liege!!

[Nick Armstrong]

a bit foppish, having been raised in France

I love your sequiturs sometimes, Anna!

Not the rose-pruning variety, either....

[Serial_Apologist]

Did you know that Richard II invented the handkerchief?

Really? Well I'm blowed!!!

[teamsaint]

Really? Well I'm blowed!!!

in depth knowledge like that is not to be sniffed at.

[BBMmk2]

Cant be sneezed at!!

[Anna]

in depth knowledge like that is not to be sniffed at.

I came across it whilst looking into John of Gaunt's sons and it seems the order to Richard II's tailor, William Rauf, was: "small pieces made for giving to the Lord King to carry in his hand for wiping and cleaning his nose"
Cali, as for Richard II, apart from being a French Fop, he was in fact a Veritable Flâneur and it seems, he couldn't be bothered to learn English when he succeeded to the throne.

[Beef Oven]

Earlier this afternoon I washed my car. It is now pouring down with rain. I will be demanding a rebate on my council tax.

When is the government going to look into post-code weather?

[EdgeleyRob]

Stopped raining here but very windy and quite cold.
Harry and I managed to complete our trek without getting wet.

[Serial_Apologist]

Earlier this afternoon I washed my car. It is now pouring down with rain.

It's a caste-iron way to make it rain.