Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

My dad and I would stand in the garden in 1940/1 and watch the dog fights over Kent. We were, like one or two others on this MB, very near to Biggin Hill and gamba was busy looking after the planes, bless.

We cut down our plane spotting a bit when a school-friend's father was killed in the garden by schrapnel

Wow...

My dad recounts how he was chased home down the street from school by a Messerschmitt which had been accompanying bombers in a raid on the big ball-bearing factory in Newark... Beastly Hun thought he'd have a laugh by shooting up the town. My dad had to dive behind a hedge.

There but for the grace of 'Im Upstairs might have gone Caliban...

[salymap]

Back in the present [is that an oxymoron?] it is a murky heavy sort of day here in the sarf-east with fitful sunshine.

Not a lot cooler but a slight breeze. Hope all is well with marthe,where is she recently?

[Serial_Apologist]

Wow...

My dad recounts how he was chased home down the street from school by a Messerschmitt which had been accompanying bombers in a raid on the big ball-bearing factory in Newark... Beastly Hun thought he'd have a laugh by shooting up the town. My dad had to dive behind a hedge.

There but for the grace of 'Im Upstairs might have gone Caliban...

Older people I worked with remembered workers at Bristol Siddley being strafed with machine gun fire by a Stuka as they made their way home from the factory in Filton, and leaping over walls and hedges into people's gardens all along the Gloucester Road.

[amateur51]

Wow...

My dad recounts how he was chased home down the street from school by a Messerschmitt which had been accompanying bombers in a raid on the big ball-bearing factory in Newark... Beastly Hun thought he'd have a laugh by shooting up the town. My dad had to dive behind a hedge.

There but for the grace of 'Im Upstairs might have gone Caliban...

Was that 'hedge' a gooseberry bush, Cali?

[amateur51]

Cor after an overcast muggy morning, we now have a sunny muggy afternoon

Any bets on thunderstorms before the day is out?

[antongould]

Wow...

My dad recounts how he was chased home down the street from school by a Messerschmitt which had been accompanying bombers in a raid on the big ball-bearing factory in Newark... Beastly Hun thought he'd have a laugh by shooting up the town. My dad had to dive behind a hedge.

There but for the grace of 'Im Upstairs might have gone Caliban...

My mother claims to have seen Rudolf Hess flying very low over Northumberland on his flight to Scotland....................

[amateur51]

My mother claims to have seen Rudolf Hess flying very low over Northumberland on his flight to Scotland....................

Terrible crash landing I understand

This chap walked away [just] http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05...30_636x373.jpg

[Serial_Apologist]

Terrible crash landing I understand

This chap walked away [just] http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05...30_636x373.jpg

Naughty!

I understand he was all right after a kip...

[Serial_Apologist]

Any bets on thunderstorms before the day is out?

Not over London, I reckon.

(My reputation could hang by a thread on this prediction )

[salymap]

Not over London, I reckon.

(My reputation could hang by a thread on this prediction )

My local forecast from the Beeb says it will rain here at 5pm. 10 minutes to go then. Although only a few miles from London the temperature here is usually several degrees cooler S-A.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sudden dramatic increase in wind speeds here in S London in the last 10 minutes: windows violently shutting, doors slamming. Gave me quite a turn! - it's been flat calm all day here, but this evening the sky looked threatening - (please don't let it thunder, I said to myself, after my earlier message prediction:o ) - but nothing more than a few large spots of rain came of it. However, a friend has just reported torrential rain on the M23 near Gatwick, so if subsynoptic mesoscale convective cells are now developing to the south of here, air being sucked in to fuel the energy needed would account for the wind rise.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not over London, I reckon.

(My reputation could hang by a thread on this prediction )

You were lucky! As I cycled home (between 6.30 and 7.30 including a pit-stop at Waitrose) the weather was disgusting, dank and gloomy with drizzle hovering in the breeze, and - looking south - "black over Bill's mother's" (as my granny used to say). It looked for all the world like the prelude to a huge thunderstorm.... but it didn't materialise (yet).

[Serial_Apologist]

You were lucky! As I cycled home (between 6.30 and 7.30 including a pit-stop at Waitrose) the weather was disgusting, dank and gloomy with drizzle hovering in the breeze, and - looking south - "black over Bill's mother's" (as my granny used to say). It looked for all the world like the prelude to a huge thunderstorm.... but it didn't materialise (yet).

Yes Cali - it got so dark here I actualy had to switch on the light in my kitchen to cook supper. Meanwhile the telly was showing presenters at the Stadium in bright sunshine!

[gurnemanz]

Yes Cali - it got so dark here I actualy had to switch on the light in my kitchen to cook supper. Meanwhile the telly was showing presenters at the Stadium in bright sunshine!

Pleasant evening in North Wilts. I played a couple of hours of tennis between 7 and 9.

[marthe]

Back in the present [is that an oxymoron?] it is a murky heavy sort of day here in the sarf-east with fitful sunshine.

Not a lot cooler but a slight breeze. Hope all is well with marthe,where is she recently?

I'm still here but have had a busy few days. The weather has been on again-off again bright sun alternating with teasing showers...a few drops but not enought to water the garden. Meanwhile, in Newport, one music festival ends (classical) as another begins (folk). Jazz isn't far behind...next weekend, I believe.