Stormy Weather

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Even the BBC forecasters are getting in a stew about the approaching storm while this morning's Daily Express is warning of a 'hurricane' but are at least putting the word in inverted commas. It'll be interesting to see who gets this right.

The problem with the Daily Express is that they cry wolf with ridiculous weather predictions.
Of course it only matters when the bad weather affects the South-east.

[salymap]

The problem with the Daily Express is that they cry wolf with ridiculous weather predictions.
Of course it only matters when the bad weather affects the South-east.

I can't understand digs against the SE pf Britain. It has advantages and the reverse but if your parents came from Kent ans Surrey you are here by circumstances.

[Anna]

I can't understand digs against the SE pf Britain. It has advantages and the reverse but if your parents came from Kent ans Surrey you are here by circumstances.

Yes, but the news is very Metrocentric, if a snowflake falls in London it's news, if you've got 3' drifts in Fakenham, it's not. Look at the floods in Hull and how they, and the plight of the people there, were virtually ignored, if it had happened in Tunbridge Wells there would have been an International Disaster Relief Committe there within 24 hours. London and the SE are, when it comes to news or weather, the centre of the Universe, the Provinces are largely ignored.

As for the Daily Depress, I find it best to ignore it, a dreadful paper (imo)

[mangerton]

I can't understand digs against the SE pf Britain. It has advantages and the reverse but if your parents came from Kent ans Surrey you are here by circumstances.

The digs aren't against the SE itself, but are against the attitude of the SE-centred (and very self-centred) media who think that nothing happens unless or until it happens in London and its immediate environs. The BBC is extremely guilty of this. So too are the Daily Wail and as EA points out, the Express.

Edit: Hello, Anna, you beat me to it!

[Anna]

Edit: Hello, Anna, you beat me to it!

Us Provincials must stand shoulder to shoulder against the wailing and the gnashing of teeth of The Daily Depress, for Verily, they are a Horde of Weasels whose Fonts I would Smite with a Powerful Sword!!

Oh dear, got a bit carried away there! Ontopic, it's been quite a pleasant day, nice bits of blue here and there, warm. The calm before the storm?
Saly, you have a very big garden at 300ft long (could you sell it off for a building plot?) but no point in fretting about fences, if they go then the insurance will replace

[Serial_Apologist]

If the experts have got the tracking of the low right, anybody north of about Birmingham should have mostly only heavy rain to worry about.

[eighthobstruction]

Salymap....today I got message asking me to sign in to Utube....first time EVER....

[salymap]

Us Provincials must stand shoulder to shoulder against the wailing and the gnashing of teeth of The Daily Depress, for Verily, they are a Horde of Weasels whose Fonts I would Smite with a Powerful Sword!!

Oh dear, got a bit carried away there! Ontopic, it's been quite a pleasant day, nice bits of blue here and there, warm. The calm before the storm?
Saly, you have a very big garden at 300ft long (could you sell it off for a building plot?) but no point in fretting about fences, if they go then the insurance will replace

No Anna, fence is my responsibility all round so length about 140 ft and quite wide at the bottomof the garden.

A house at corner was owned by a local councellor He got away with a bungalow in his garden, just joined to main house at one corner. A VERY nice little earner.

And insurance doesn't pay up unless a shed or building is damaged. I found that out the hard way

[Serial_Apologist]

Salymap....today I got message asking me to sign in to Utube....first time EVER....

Last evening I encountered a urinal that flushed the moment you stood in front of it, eighth. Can't even have a **** in private, I tell you. In a church, too : everywhere we're being spied on .

[Serial_Apologist]

No Anna, fence is my responsibility all round so length about 140 ft and quite wide at the bottomof the garden.

A house at corner was owned by a local councellor He got away with a bungalow in his garden, just joined to main house at one corner. A VERY nice little earner.

And insurance doesn't pay up unless a shed or building is damaged. I found that out the hard way

Like many a councillor he (or she) has obviously made a principle out of being semi-detached, saly.

[Anna]

And insurance doesn't pay up unless a shed or building is damaged. I found that out the hard way

Sorry saly, guess it depends on your insurance company but, thinking about it, fences do deteriorate over the years. There has been some infilling here, how they got planning we are not sure ....

If the experts have got the tracking of the low right, anybody north of about Birmingham should have mostly only heavy rain to worry about.

I see now that it has been christened the 'St. Jude Storm' because his feast day falls on the 28th (he is the Patron Saint of lost causes and the despairing) Of course Monday is also the feast day of St. Simon, but he's not so interesting .... being mainly concerned with tradesmen! But I guess, if you live South of Birmingham, it's worth a couple of Hail Marys and a Novena .... just in case?

[eighthobstruction]

i should think St Simons tradesmen will do very nicely apres lundi....

[Anna]

i should think St Simons tradesmen will do very nicely apres lundi....

Not unless they are curriers, sawyers and tanners! Well, ok, the sawyers could very well mend saly's fence?
I'm not worrying about the storm, what will be, will be. I am being very fatalistic, in fact, positively serene and Zen, not rushing about like (oh what was that childrens book, about the ceiling falling in with a neurotic hen?)

[eighthobstruction]

Fiddling chicken on the roof??....

[Anna]

Fiddling chicken on the roof??....

No, that's Zero Mostel I think!
The one I am thinking are folktales that make light of paranoia and mass hysteria ,,,, When I have time I will google