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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    That yellow round thing is out today!! :)
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Blimey yes - started to pelt it down as my bicycle and I reached the road end here, and as I was opening the front door, an enormous lightning flash and almost simultaneous thunder clap made me leap...
      That'll be the static charge built up by those new neoprene leggings, Caliban

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

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        an enormous lightning flash and almost simultaneous thunder clap made me leap...
        One Lord a-leaping?

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        • Anna

          Only a little rain yesterday late afternoon/evening, Wednesday’s storm was ferocious, intense but luckily no flooding here. Today, a pretty dawn, thick frost, icy roads and pavements, and very, very, cold wind. It was around 4° (probably less than 2° with windchill factor) when I left the house at 8am

          As for the BBC website still predicting mild and showry for 25/26th, it’s pretty obvious the website isn’t updated for more than two days ahead (cf R3 website and playlists!) Yesterday evening our local weatherman said ‘We’re in for a bumpy ride from now on and all through Christmas week’, lots of heavy rain and gales for us here. Snow yesterday in mid-Wales, unexpectedly no whiteness on top of the Black Mountains this morning when I passed them.

          I am now entering a state of mild panic re Christmas menu/food/wine – I always think I’ve got at least 2 weeks left to get organised! I have got my train tickets, that’s about all - tomorrow will be a mega shopping day but has anyone found that so far it’s been very quiet, even Waitrose hasn’t had the usual queue control wardens! Oh, and talking about that supermarket - can you believe my butcher has partridges for £2.50, pheasants for £3.50 whereas they have them priced at £5.25 and £5.79. Why people buy meat at supermarkets defeats me.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            an enormous lightning flash
            I wonder if that hit a theatre

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37636

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              Only a little rain yesterday late afternoon/evening, Wednesday’s storm was ferocious, intense but luckily no flooding here. Today, a pretty dawn, thick frost, icy roads and pavements, and very, very, cold wind. It was around 4° (probably less than 2° with windchill factor) when I left the house at 8am

              As for the BBC website still predicting mild and showry for 25/26th, it’s pretty obvious the website isn’t updated for more than two days ahead (cf R3 website and playlists!) Yesterday evening our local weatherman said ‘We’re in for a bumpy ride from now on and all through Christmas week’, lots of heavy rain and gales for us here. Snow yesterday in mid-Wales, unexpectedly no whiteness on top of the Black Mountains this morning when I passed them.

              I am now entering a state of mild panic re Christmas menu/food/wine – I always think I’ve got at least 2 weeks left to get organised! I have got my train tickets, that’s about all - tomorrow will be a mega shopping day but has anyone found that so far it’s been very quiet, even Waitrose hasn’t had the usual queue control wardens! Oh, and talking about that supermarket - can you believe my butcher has partridges for £2.50, pheasants for £3.50 whereas they have them priced at £5.25 and £5.79. Why people buy meat at supermarkets defeats me.
              Same around here as regards supermarket queues - much to the surprise of the checkout lady I spoke to yesterday morning. My guess would be that people have finally come around to my recognition that it's best to store up as much stuff as one can get 2-3 weeks ahead of the Day. This morning I collected what (all being well) will be my final food items until Saturday week - a pint of milk and one loaf of bread to keep the other one company in the fridge. There was only one other person queuing in front of me in the local Tesco Express, and this was 10 o'clock!

              When do you travel, Anna?

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37636

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                I wonder if that hit a theatre
                Cailban lives at least a mile from the Apollo - five seconds between flash and clap - so it would have had to have been another one!

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                • Anna

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  This morning I collected what (all being well) will be my final food items until Saturday week - a pint of milk and one loaf of bread to keep the other one company in the fridge.
                  When do you travel, Anna?
                  You living on bread and milk over the Festive Season S_A? At least pop some raisins and a tot of whisky in your gruel!!
                  I travel first thing on the 30th, returning pm of the 3rd. I'm staying about 20 mins from Bury (home of the world famous black pudding and not much else)

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25202

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post
                    You living on bread and milk over the Festive Season S_A? At least pop some raisins and a tot of whisky in your gruel!!
                    I travel first thing on the 30th, returning pm of the 3rd. I'm staying about 20 mins from Bury (home of the world famous black pudding and not much else)
                    Not famous for much else?Eh?

                    Only the first football club to score 1000 goals in all four league divisions.
                    Lucky I let you know before you put your foot in it , whilst up north .!!!

                    Edit, mild and a bit gloomy here, though the odd bit of sun earlier.
                    Some interesting clouds which I may post for 12 tone feller to analyse later......
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      Not famous for much else?Eh?
                      Only the first football club to score 1000 goals in all four league divisions.
                      Lucky I let you know before you put your foot in it , whilst up north .!!!
                      Edit, mild and a bit gloomy here, though the odd bit of sun earlier.
                      Some interesting clouds which I may post for 12 tone feller to analyse later......
                      Yes, I do know about Bury and often the men and boys of the family go to support - I see they are playing Hartlepool on 1st January ..... perhaps it'll be a choice between that and a day at The Trafford Centre? (If it's on offer I may plump for the footie ......)

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37636

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        You living on bread and milk over the Festive Season S_A? At least pop some raisins and a tot of whisky in your gruel!!
                        On the contrary: frozen food compartment brim full to the point of scraping ice away every time the drawers pulled out! I drew up an inventory to ensure something different each and every day until replenishment is required!

                        The weather should have calmed down by the time you make your way oop north, btw Anna.
                        Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 20-12-13, 16:30.

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25202

                          So, S_A, here is one take out of the car window by TS jnr (3) just now.

                          The interesting thing was the light "summery" clouds higher up, and the darker grey heavier looking stuff at a much lower level.
                          A rather better effect live than on the photo !!



                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37636

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            Some interesting clouds which I may post for 12 tone feller to analyse later......
                            Yep - I'd like to see those, if you've got the time, teamy.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37636

                              Ah - posts crossed - thanks, TS!

                              What you have (and we have too now) is advancing bands of altocumulus at the higher level (usually about 15,000 feet) indicating an approaching frontal system - in this case the warm front that 's going to give us a very wet time of it tonight and tomorrow, since it's not going anywhere in a hurry - and cumulus puffing up into a broken stratocumulus at about 2-6,000 feet, indicating increasing humidity and turbulence at that level in association with the advancing warm front.

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

                                wet windy and warm then?
                                According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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