Stormy Weather

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apologies for mentioning the cricket salymap. i was carried away with the excitement of it all .... a very clouded and grey day in the middle kingdom .... chill yesterday but warmer today ... not that i noticed very much yesterday, a chest infection is wiping me out at the moment ...

[salymap]

Wish you better Calum. I forgive the cricket, some of my best friends disappear for dayswhen it's on. I seem unable to understand the rules so it just passes me by.

I used to be taken to Meopham in Kent to watch long, long matches. The pub lunch and later the strawberry tea were the high spots for me.

[Pianorak]

Not sure whether it's a heat-haze or an autumn mist but very overcast in Kent today.

Same in Berkshire - my money is on heat-haze. It's also still quite muggy

[Serial_Apologist]

Same in Berkshire - my money is on heat-haze. It's also still quite muggy

It's pollution - - right now we're trapped in stale air between weather systems.

S-A

[Serial_Apologist]

I used to be taken to Meopham in Kent to watch long, long matches. The pub lunch and later the strawberry tea were the high spots for me.

The top hats, monocles, gold-tipped canes, bonnets, crinalins and bustles would have been my high spots!

[salymap]

I'll have to think of an answer to that but it probably wouldn't be allowed on the MBs

[Serial_Apologist]

I'll have to think of an answer to that but it probably wouldn't be allowed on the MBs

[salymap]

This thread falls apart without marthe. Where are you?

Muggy and dull here, not all that good. At least it's dry at the moment.

[marthe]

This thread falls apart without marthe. Where are you?

Muggy and dull here, not all that good. At least it's dry at the moment.

saly, I've not abandoned the ship but have had a few busy days! Our heat wave has abated somewhat though the gardens are now quite parched. The showers promised by the weather forecasts never seem to happen. Lot's of watering-can duty in my garden. I'll be working through the weekend with days off on Monday and Tuesday. Friends are having an anniversary/birthday party on Saturday. It's potluck so will have to come up with some sort of delectable nibble as well as a gift or two. Folk Festival weekend Fri-Sun so Newport will be "jammin" as they say!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Having recently returned from the Lake District, I was amazed that for my second visit this year, the weather was sunny and clear throughout. I'm ticking off the Wainwrights.

[antongould]

Still autumn in the Coalfields!!!

[salymap]

Morning marthe and others. Sorry marthe, know you are a busy woman, good luck with the 'jammin' and gardening duties.
I have a cousin who has taken on friends' gardens while they are away. All are a drive away and she didn't reckon on all the roadworks around here at the moment. That's life I guess. Have a good weekend anyway.

[marthe]

Morning marthe and others. Sorry marthe, know you are a busy woman, good luck with the 'jammin' and gardening duties.
I have a cousin who has taken on friends' gardens while they are away. All are a drive away and she didn't reckon on all the roadworks around here at the moment. That's life I guess. Have a good weekend anyway.

saly, never too busy to chat! I'm looking forward to the weekend and hoping for a shower, or two, today to make the gardening duties easier! Time to go to work now.

[Serial_Apologist]

saly, never too busy to chat! I'm looking forward to the weekend and hoping for a shower, or two, today to make the gardening duties easier! Time to go to work now.

Showers look well possible where you are over the next 3 days, marthe, with lower temperatures but very high humidity

Back here it looks like just 1 more day of coolish north winds and cloudyish skies, and then warming up, so could be in the 80s F (27 C +) for the first half of next week - and then the usual thundery breakdown.

[marthe]

S-A, high humidity indeed! The promised showers haven't materialised but here's hoping... . I'm sure the folks who are attending the Newport Folk Festival this weekend are hoping for good weather! I love to see your forecasts of our weather coming back across the pond! Someday I'll figure out the celsius temps that fall between 0 and 40. How long did it take you to mentally change over when celsius was introduced? Farenheit was still in use back in the 70s when I lived in England. Metric was just looming on the horizon then.