Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

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.

[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)

[Pabmusic]

... 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee

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

[BBMmk2]

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!!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

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.

[eighthobstruction]

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....

[vinteuil]

....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

...]

[eighthobstruction]

.
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....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... 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 ...

[Anna]

... 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!

[BBMmk2]

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!! !! :)

[Pabmusic]

... 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.

[amateur51]

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.

[Pabmusic]

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).

[eighthobstruction]

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