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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    Be safe Mangerton!
    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
      • 26525

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      That's right - save the beer for the weekend!
      "...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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      • Flosshilde
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7988

        Originally posted by mangerton View Post
        Very high winds around here today, not to mention the lashing rain.
        And here - I wouldn't be surprised if the Erskine Bridge was closed (it looks pretty traffic-free for 9.00 in the morning on Traffic Scotland's live camera).

        I wonder if this afternoon's BBCSSO concert will go ahead? it's due to be broadcast live, but the last time we had weather like this a couple of years ago they cancelled an evening concert (Bluebeard's Castle, which I was looking forward to, & they haven't rescheduled it)

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12965

          Wild, wild night and day here in Ultima Thule. Next door are in the process of being re-roofed, and in the night, the protective tarpaulin has been torn and shredded and pretty well useless.

          It's a bad one out there.

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          • BBMmk2
            Late Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 20908

            ........and total opposite here! Cold night with a thick ground frost!
            Don’t cry for me
            I go where music was born

            J S Bach 1685-1750

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            • Flosshilde
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7988

              I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.
                Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Wheelie bins strewn across the road in this fragment of the Pennines this morning. "I wish the binmen'd put them back as tidily as we put them out" grumbled a cross fhg as he ventured out into the wilds to bring them in - but they were still full: 'twas the wind that had scattered them.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 9173

                    windy and sunny in the middle kingdom - the sky at sunset last night was one of the most magical i have seen .... Venus and a whisper of a New Moon in a sun tinged blueness the moon visible in perfect three dimensional clarity ... truly awesome
                    Last edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 05-12-13, 11:51.
                    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                    • amateur51

                      At 07:15 the sky was part-grey, part-blue with extraordinarily pink clouds (say nothing ).

                      Now the clouds and grey and white and scudding past eastwards at quite a rate, with sunshine filtering through. Quite blustery at ground level but not that cold.

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        Originally Posted by Flosshilde View Post
                        I didn't know you lived in Ultima Thule, Draco. Such a a strange sounding name - I always think it sounds Bunyanesque & rather final.
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Oh dear

                        Mr F. does say that my geographical knowledge is non-existent.

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                        • Beef Oven!
                          Ex-member
                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147

                          I don't know what it's like where you are, but in the last 15 minutes I've experienced terrible wind.

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                          • Anna

                            From what I've gathered it's certainly been rough in Scotland (and all trains cancelled!) but any sign of the promised? The storm surge is worrying and it seems that apart from the East Coast some places in Flintshire have also been evacuated because of expected high tide/surge, This morning here it could be described as bracing - or the sort of weather than blows cobwebs away in two minutes, but wind has calmed down now and sky clearing.
                            Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                            windy and sunny in the middle kingdom - the sky at sunset last night was one of the most magical i have seen .... Venus and a whisper of a New Moon in a sun tinged blueness the moon visible in perfect three dimensional clarity ... truly awesome
                            It was absolutely perfect here as well, and so starry until mist came in the early hours.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37639

                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              From what I've gathered it's certainly been rough in Scotland (and all trains cancelled!) but any sign of the promised? The storm surge is worrying and it seems that apart from the East Coast some places in Flintshire have also been evacuated because of expected high tide/surge, This morning here it could be described as bracing - or the sort of weather than blows cobwebs away in two minutes, but wind has calmed down now and sky clearing.
                              That means the worst has now passed where you are, Anna. The cold front - which has caused all the trouble further north - is about to hit us here: just a few spots at the moment; enough rain coming to obliterate everything within 5 miles to the north from view, but a greatly weakened feature now. Wind WNW about 20 mph at a glance; 9.5 degrees C, which is as high as it has got and will get today.

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                              • mangerton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3346

                                Yes, there were no trains in Scotland for a time this morning. The Tay Road Bridge (85 mph gusts had been reported) re-opened at 11 am, and the sun came out for a bit. We had a heavy snowfall for 45 mins around lunchtime, and it got very cold - 0º C at 3.30 this afternoon, and no warmer now.

                                Looking at the news reports other parts of Scotland had it much worse, and the situation looks grim for the east of England this evening.

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