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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    I don't suppose it will help if I say that it is bright and sunny here,and just the cool side of mild?
    I'm sure I'm very happy for you

    Hope it warms up for you soon.
    Forecast to improve from tomorrow/Thursday onwards. A fortnight ago we had a week of lovely weather, so I think the present state of affairs is just Winter throwing its toys out of the pram!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12799

      Originally posted by alycidon View Post
      to have the delivery plates changed to our personalised ones. That's sad, isn't it?
      ... way beyond sad.

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      • alycidon
        Full Member
        • Feb 2013
        • 459

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... way beyond sad.
        Oh! I fully understand your comment, Vinteuil - many people would say the same. The thing is, I have been fascinated by vehicle registration marks since being a wee lad in the 1940s, and when personalised plates first came into being in the 1970s I promised myself that one day, I would get one - but only if it was dirt cheap!

        That day came about some eight years ago, but my initials being ILJ, one for me would be rather tricky so we obtained T5 MEJ - those being Mrs Alycidon's initials. From memory, we paid 275 smackeroons and it has graced four different cars.

        Yes! It probably is sad, but it keeps me happy, and I don't have many of life's luxuries!
        Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37637

          A few quite large hailstones from a passing shower here about an hour ago, and now a long, flat-topped cotton-wool cumulonimbus on view from this window suggests something possibly thundery further to the north than The Heath, which is clearly visible from here 12 miles to the south, although thunder was not in the forecast.

          Yesterday evening I almost caught hypothermia waiting long minutes on wind-blown railway stations among grimly clasped couples for under-heated trains home. Are the companies saving on heating bills, one wonders?

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12799

            Originally posted by alycidon View Post
            personalised plates
            ... whizzing up and down the M40 between London and Oxford pretty regularly, it is remarkable how many of the 'grander' cars -Rangerovers, Bentleys, Maybachs, large BMWs, Audis, Mercs - have personalised plates. Ever since the DVLA started selling them on a large scale, the number of such plates has increased in a big way; and since possessors of such plates will hang on to them, over time the percentage of personal plates is set to increase - over time may become preponderant...

            If by some fluke the next car I bought came with a plate that looked as if it might be a 'personalized' one, I wd seriously think of paying for a more obviously anonymous / random one...

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            • eighthobstruction
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 6433

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... whizzing up and down the M40 between London and Oxford pretty regularly, it is remarkable how many of the 'grander' cars -Rangerovers, Bentleys, Maybachs, large BMWs, Audis, Mercs - have personalised plates. Ever since the DVLA started selling them on a large scale, the number of such plates has increased in big way; and since possessors of such plates will hang on to them, over time the percentage of personal plates is set to increase - over time may become preponderant...
              ....grumble grumble....just identifying themselves to the motorway bridge markspersons when the judgement day comes.....
              bong ching

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25202

                Originally posted by alycidon View Post
                Oh! I fully understand your comment, Vinteuil - many people would say the same. The thing is, I have been fascinated by vehicle registration marks since being a wee lad in the 1940s, and when personalised plates first came into being in the 1970s I promised myself that one day, I would get one - but only if it was dirt cheap!

                That day came about some eight years ago, but my initials being ILJ, one for me would be rather tricky so we obtained T5 MEJ - those being Mrs Alycidon's initials. From memory, we paid 275 smackeroons and it has graced four different cars.

                Yes! It probably is sad, but it keeps me happy, and I don't have many of life's luxuries!
                with 4 cars in 8 years, its not surprising !!
                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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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  Spring on it's way, I ask tentavely?
                  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
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                    Spring on it's way, I ask tentavely?
                    Going camping, Bbm?
                    "...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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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Going camping, Bbm?
                      Gotta be joking Cali! :) Havn'ty been camping since I was a Boy Scout haha!

                      Another lovely day here. We are having a book themed day today. and that is Harry Potter!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • alycidon
                        Full Member
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 459

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        with 4 cars in 8 years, its not surprising !!
                        Not really. One disappeared at the beginning of those eight years, and the newest one came at the end of those eight years. Therefore, two cars in eight years!
                        Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37637

                          Hey: it's just topped 11 degrees C here, which was predicted as top temperature anywhere across the country for today. It will probably have reached 13 C in central London - which is 55 F in old money. And it's expected to get to 15 C somewhere on Saturday.

                          I was going to say that this is as high as it has got thus far this year, however I see it managed 14 C on January 9, though that was a very windy and drizzly day. We only reached double figures once in February.

                          Next week's weather isn't looking certain.

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                          • DracoM
                            Host
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 12965

                            Temp here in Ultima Thule is 5C, and falling, but with a pretty bitter high wind chill factor, no sun. So......first real day of Spring...? Ahem.

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12799

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              Hey: it's just topped 11 degrees C here, which was predicted as top temperature anywhere across the country for today. It will probably have reached 13 C in central London - which is 55 F in old money.
                              ... yes indeedy, balmy in Shepherd's Bush, greatcoat flapping unbuttoned while striding to waitrose...

                              And the barograph pushing 1045, which is almost as far as the graph paper will allow it (it goes from 950 to 1050).

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                as my father used to say (not sure why) - "its a bright monlit nicht tonicht"

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