Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

Grey, cold and steady rain this morning - yuk

But somehow all those hours of sunshine this past few months stay with me and I am not downcast - well not yet, anyway

[vinteuil]

I've noticed this - and "drawrring", too (not to mention Laura Norder). Is this new, or have I only just noticed it in my grumpy middle age?

It's not new. I recall a School Exam paper which asked us to discuss the phenomenon of "The Jackdaw rof Rheims" being regularly so pronounced on a highbrow radio station - and this must've been in 1968 or so...

[alycidon]

Feels like Autumn in the Great Glen. Sixty-ish with some sun interspersed with showers.

[Sir Velo]

We had a clap of thunder, lightening (sic) and hailstones and ignorant charity cyclists blocking up our roads again!

Who is this our roads again????

You no more pay for the roads than cyclists, in fact less, since vehicle excise tax is insufficient to cover the effects of motorists' pollution (to say nothing of the nation's obesity epidemic) which has to be subsidised out of general taxation.

[mangerton]

Nah - everybody apart from me says "thorring" for "thawing" these days... which would actually be correct, in this case, however!

Steady light rain, 13 C, almost calm here at the mo, and not looking like changing for most of today.

Don't include me in that "everybody". I was teached to speak proper. Scots do not use the "intrusive r", which was introduced to avoid the glottal stop for non-rhotic speakers.

OT: Outside it's dry, overcast, and cool here today. I'm at work, where something has gone wrong with the heating/aircon, and inside it's frrrrrrrreezing. Plenty of intrusive "r"s there!

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't include me in that "everybody". I was teached to speak proper. Scots do not use the "intrusive r", which was introduced to avoid the glottal stop for non-rhotic speakers.

OT: Outside it's dry, overcast, and cool here today. I'm at work, where something has gone wrong with the heating/aircon, and inside it's frrrrrrrreezing. Plenty of intrusive "r"s there!

There'd a-been a few more f's there, in my case!

[amateur51]

Who is this our roads again????

You no more pay for the roads than cyclists, in fact less, since vehicle excise tax and the effects of motorists' pollution (to say nothing of the nation's obesity epidemic) has to be subsidised out of general taxation.

You're certain that Bbm is not talking about a private/unadopted road, I take it? ;erm:

[Nick Armstrong]

You're certain that Bbm is not talking about a private/unadopted road, I take it? ;erm:

An extensive road network in the vast tracts of darkest Sussex inherited from his Plantagenet forebears, no doubt.... (Note the royal "our").

On thread - tipped it down all morning in the metrollopes, now seems to be brightening a tad...

[Sir Velo]

You're certain that Bbm is not talking about a private/unadopted road, I take it? ;erm:

On yer bike sunshine!

[amateur51]

On yer bike sunshine!

Just making sure you know what you're talking about

[Serial_Apologist]

An extensive road network in the vast tracts of darkest Sussex inherited from his Plantagenet forebears, no doubt.... (Note the royal "our").

On thread - tipped it down all morning in the metrollopes, now seems to be brightening a tad...

Those unmetalled surfaces - they would have taken their tolls from cyclists.

[Sir Velo]

Just making sure you know what you're talking about

Well if it were his own private road network, I would ask him why they had banned cyclists from it, particularly those engaged in charitable activities. I take it you're not opposed to charitable fundraising Amsy Wamsy?

[Sir Velo]

Those unmetalled surfaces - they would have taken their tolls from cyclists.

All part of a life cycle, S-A. :nudge nudge:

[vinteuil]

I take it you're not opposed to charitable fundraising ?

... if person A wishes to give to charity X, in what way is his/her charitable donation enhanced by person B smugly and masochistically 'enduring' something like a charity ride?

If you wish to give to a charity, give to a charity.

All this "sponsorship" malarkey is far too much of a "look at me, ain't I virtuous?" farrago.

St Matthew vi 3 - left hands not knowing what right hands are doing - a much seemlier approach...

[Nick Armstrong]

... if person A wishes to give to charity X, in what way is his/her charitable donation enhanced by person B smugly and masochistically 'enduring' something like a charity ride?

Enhanced, perhaps not. But increased - perhaps.... friends, family, colleagues etc are encouraged/emotionally blackmailed (an ugly word, Lord d'Ascoigne, but perhaps the only appropriate one) to focus on and contribute to causes they might not otherwise. Not a bad thing, surely/Shirley?