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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37637

    Originally posted by marthe View Post
    Thanks ams. HH and I are safely home. The wind and rain are intensifying as I type. The sun will shine tomorrow which is a good thing as I'm going on a guides' (as in museum guides not girl) field trip to visit the Davis Museum at Wellesley College tomorrow.
    Very dramatic weather chart, marthe - should be calmer tomorrow, but much cooler.

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    • Anna

      Another chilly morning with frost but perfectly clear blue sky, not a breath of wind. Last few days have got very warm, yesterday up to 16°. I think (here) we are to have a few showers on Monday then back to unbroken sun and temps in the 20s. Having spent last two weekends decorating I must devote this bank holiday to gardening. Hedgerows have transformed themselves over the past 3-4 days, full of wild flowers, apple blossom buds now showing pink about to burst forth, all trees finally getting in leaf - it all looks so fresh and pretty.
      I think I may have a bumble bee nest nearby - never seen so many, will investigate at weekend. Confess I don't know much about them except that they don't swarm and don't sting (unless the Queen gets in a strop)

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      • Pabmusic
        Full Member
        • May 2011
        • 5537

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        ... Confess I don't know much about them except that they don't swarm and don't sting (unless the Queen gets in a strop)
        Here's Wiki, which includes a lovely quote from Darwin, extolling the virtues of the 'humble-bee' (which seems to be the older name - bee that hums). Of course another old name is dumbledore.



        We've had a couple of cool days (28 degrees C at the moment!) with some very welcome rain.

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Well, I feel so stupid! At times, I am not sure wether to post this but here goes. I done something really stupid this morning! Logged on as usual. Everything ok. Then, a few hours later, logged on again. Hmmm, couldn't get passed the initial logging stage. Put in password, three times, still no joy!! The PC said reset password. OMG! No!! :( Decided top wait for MrsBBM toi come home from work. She logged on, success! Nothing too serious, I had left the capitals on!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37637

            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            Well, I feel so stupid! At times, I am not sure wether to post this but here goes. I done something really stupid this morning! Logged on as usual. Everything ok. Then, a few hours later, logged on again. Hmmm, couldn't get passed the initial logging stage. Put in password, three times, still no joy!! The PC said reset password. OMG! No!! :( Decided top wait for MrsBBM toi come home from work. She logged on, success! Nothing too serious, I had left the capitals on!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!
            I don't find I need to "log on" - just get into my Firefox, click on the downward arrow on the right hand side of the window at the top of the page, and then on "The Radio 3 Forum", and hey presto, I'm here! Anyone else find it this easy?

            OT - Lovely day here in S London - only 13 degrees C max in the shade but hot enough in the sun to sunbathe until 5.30 pm. They're forecasting rain on Sunday; I'm not sure they've got it right on this occasion.

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            • eighthobstruction
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 6432

              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
              Well, I feel so stupid! At times, I am not sure wether to post this but here goes. I done something really stupid this morning! Logged on as usual. Everything ok. Then, a few hours later, logged on again. Hmmm, couldn't get passed the initial logging stage. Put in password, three times, still no joy!! The PC said reset password. OMG! No!! :( Decided top wait for MrsBBM toi come home from work. She logged on, success! Nothing too serious, I had left the capitals on!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!
              Definitely know that feeling bbm....anyway spring now, time for lower-case....give your knees an airing....
              bong ching

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12798

                Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                ....anyway spring now, time for lower-case...
                .
                in Just-
                spring when the world is mud-
                luscious the little
                lame balloonman

                whistles far and wee

                and eddieandbill come
                running from marbles and
                piracies and it's
                spring

                when the world is puddle-wonderful

                the queer
                old balloonman whistles
                far and wee
                and bettyandisbel come dancing

                from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

                it's
                spring
                and

                the

                goat-footed

                balloonMan whistles
                far
                and
                wee

                ...]

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                • eighthobstruction
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 6432

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  .
                  in Just-
                  spring when the world is mud-
                  luscious the little
                  lame balloonman

                  whistles far and wee

                  and eddieandbill come
                  running from marbles and
                  piracies and it's
                  spring

                  when the world is puddle-wonderful

                  the queer
                  old balloonman whistles
                  far and wee
                  and bettyandisbel come dancing

                  from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

                  it's
                  spring
                  and

                  the

                  goat-footed

                  balloonMan whistles
                  far
                  and
                  wee

                  ...]
                  Yeah, me too....

                  Recently tried to read the Enormous Room by cummings....not very good....
                  bong ching

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

                    ... there was i , as ones does, reading a learned tome in bed, when an express train ran under the house .... well actually an earthquake, 3.2 on the Richter Scale, in the very centre of the middle kingdom at Occa's Ham .... we wuz most peturbated i must say ..... over in seconds in the ground but most of us still trembling a bit ...
                    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                      ... when an express train ran under the house .... well actually an earthquake, 3.2 on the Richter Scale ...
                      Ooh, that's exciting! And it's been reported on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-27061165 I experienced the famous earthquake in N. Wales and it was exactly like a train running underneath ..... I was asleep in a tent at the time!

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Ooh, that's exciting! And it's been reported on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-27061165 I experienced the famous earthquake in N. Wales and it was exactly like a train running underneath ..... I was asleep in a tent at the time!

                        OMG Anna, what an experience!! Well looks like a great day today!! !! :)
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Pabmusic
                          Full Member
                          • May 2011
                          • 5537

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          ... I experienced the famous earthquake in N. Wales and it was exactly like a train running underneath ..... I was asleep in a tent at the time!
                          Was this in about 1989? (But surely not. You're no more that 25 if your picture is anything to go by.) I was at HMYOI Stoke Heath then, when the earth shook as I was walking down a long corridor - quite an experience! It was like walking on a trampoline.

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
                            Was this in about 1989? (But surely not. You're no more that 25 if your picture is anything to go by.) I was at HMYOI Stoke Heath then, when the earth shook as I was walking down a long corridor - quite an experience! It was like walking on a trampoline.
                            Nearer 1986 I think Pabs. I was sitting on the grass at Port Meirion, enjoying the sunshine, when I felt the Bakerloo Line running along under the ground on which I was sitting - an aftershock I guess.

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                            • Pabmusic
                              Full Member
                              • May 2011
                              • 5537

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Nearer 1986 I think Pabs. I was sitting on the grass at Port Meirion, enjoying the sunshine, when I felt the Bakerloo Line running along under the ground on which I was sitting - an aftershock I guess.
                              We may be thinking of different quakes. Mine could not have been before 1989 and affected Shropshire and Wrexham at least, but I understand that the UK has 300 or so quakes every year (it's just that we're not at the edge of two tectonic plates).

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                              • eighthobstruction
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 6432

                                Cost of living these days there's never much on my tectonic plate....makes me shudder just thinking of the injustice of it.....
                                bong ching

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