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Overcast, some light rain and getting increasingly windy - not really August weather is it? Press reports are again talking about a heatwave later this week and potentially lasting into September. It seems to be principally the Daily Express who give us these stories and they mostly turn out to be hopelessly wrong. Perhaps S-A has some news on whether this is another likely failure or whether it has substance.
As mentioned elsewhere, I'm treating my sister and niece to a weekend in London on August 31/September 1 so it really needs to be dry and warm. Lord knows, it's cost enough so it's the least I can wish for."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Once again AGAIN waiting for the Heavy rain the BBC weather said was coming and seeing NOWT.....really poor forecasting this week....for Skipton....bong chingComment
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Ditto here, yesterday's BBC forecast showed it sweeping in during the early hours and swamping us but not a drop ... so I went out at 8am as this morning it was revised to deluge at 10am .... a few spits so far, although very low grey cloud, windy, gusting at 18mph, 16.5°Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
When do schools go back - usually first Tuesday in September I think - that's when Indian Summers usually start so based on that folklore it should be warming up for Petrushka's trip to London?Comment
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Must have had your swamping here, Anna. I got three soakings in 24 hours (Thurs afternoon, evening and Friday morning) with some very heavy rain indeed.Originally posted by Anna View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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While somehow - for a change - nevertheless managing to hit all the right keys!Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
too trueComment
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Eight miles down the road from Skipton, it rained overnight and there've been a couple of very brief but very intense downpours this morning. The clouds are definitely glowering over our house (up to no good, I'll be bound) and it's incredibly WINDY! (The Buddleia has been blown to about 65â—‹ from its customary perpendicular, and looks as if it's blaming me for the indignity!)Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Not here....grey muggy....bong chingComment
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
If it's rain you want, you and Anna should be here! It's been raining on and off since 10.30 this morning, but ten minutes ago I saw the heaviest rain I've seen for ........... oh quite a long time, really. This does not bode well for my trip south tomorrow.
There'll be no need to lock up any daughters (msg #9643) - it'll be far too wet for them to come out.Comment
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Well I long term forecasted for up your way for the next 2 weeks a few days ago, and it looked on and off nasty....but now it's changed completely, just a bit nasty every now and then....bong chingComment
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No mangerton, I don't want rain (I want the grass to dry up so it can be cut) but I planned my day to accommodate the projected Monsoon conditions - I could have had a lie-in instead of rising at such an early hour! Even the revised Met Office forecast which said it would happen at 1.00pm proved completely wrong - I sometimes think I'll go back to hanging a piece of bladderwrack outside the door ....Originally posted by mangerton View Post
I hope you're being pessimistic about your trip to the Borders (how far South are you going?) and it'll be an enjoyable trip.Comment
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Thank you for your good wishes. Bladderwrack sounds just the thing, and if it fails to work, you could always eat it. (How are your beans?)Originally posted by Anna View Post
I'm sure I'm being pessimistic, and I'm looking forward to going. I'm going to Ravenglass tomorrow, and then over the Hardknott and Wrynose Passes to Bowness-on-Windermere. You'll not be surprised to hear the trip has railway connections. I also thought of going on a boat on Windermere, but if the weather is inclement, I might very well take up your suggestion of surfing.
OT: Oddly, since my last, it has dried up, and blue sky and sun are in evidence. What a country we live in!Comment
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I've picked more runners and dwarfs today - if you weren't going on holiday I'd send you up a pallet of them! Luckily they are my fave vegs but I think, like the chap in Shakespeare, I might die of a surfeit of beans (except his were lamphreys and maybe it wasn't Shakespeare?)Originally posted by mangerton View Post
Ooh, the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway? And then those Passes also by steam? I shall be with you in spirit but, please do not lean out of the carriage window and lose another mobile ...... !! Photos welcome of course in due course! The Steam Train thread needs reviving.
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Originally posted by mangerton View Post
If it's that inclement on Windermere, I imagine surfing won't be uppermost in your mind... Surviving a meteorological apocalypse is likely to take precedence, I'd imagine.
"...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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Was it Windermere I stayed, there was a jetty I recall through the endless mist? I know it was a Country House type hotel with nice grounds, not far from Lancaster, supposedly a romantic break - turned out to be a damp squib (both weather and romance wise). Food was good though, nice lamb and some goat's cheese twice baked souffles I recall.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
If it's that inclement on Windermere, I imagine surfing won't be uppermost in your mind... Surviving a meteorological apocalypse is likely to take precedence, I'd imagine.
Anyone recall a programme called 'The Lakes' set in a hotel, it was rather dark.Comment
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