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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 12991

    Yeah, well it's 11.26 a.m. here and 'cool' at 6C, driving rain and a nasty, sneaping wind.

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      Rather a mixed bag today and having a bit of one too! Ah well!
      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
        • 26574

        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
        sneaping
        Good word that! New one on me
        "...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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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37835

          Originally posted by Anna View Post
          had an interesting conversation with lovely bloke who works in Waitrose who is an avid stargazer!
          With a twinkle in his eye?

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            Rather a mixed bag today and having a bit of one too!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              it's the way he tells 'em!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26574

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                With a twinkle in his eye?


                Gag of the day so far, S_A!

                "...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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                • EdgeleyRob
                  Guest
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12180

                  Rain,wind and cold this morning.
                  Brightened up now,just been for a 2 hour walk with the dog without getting soaked.

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                  • mangerton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3346

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Good word that! New one on me
                    (sneaping) I'm glad you said that, Cali, because it was a new one on me too. I thought perhaps it was dialect, but I looked it up and discovered it appears in "The Winter's Tale".

                    I must use it more often......

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37835

                      Breezy and cool with the odd shower here - most of the real convective activity having passed to the south and north of us.

                      When it comes to putting on a good show, the Americans really know how to deliver thunderstorms. Look at this clip of one taking place over Miami, filmed by a couple of lads from an upstairs hotel balcony; I've witnessed maybe 10 this intense in the UK. Fast-forward to minute 6 for really scary stuff - I wouldn't have been out there:

                      20 minute clip of an intense thunderstorm off the coast of downtown Miami, overlooking South Beach


                      Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 11-05-13, 18:17.

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Had a couple of claps of thunder today. Not May weather!!
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • mangerton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3346

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          When it comes to putting on a good show, the Americans really know how to deliver thunderstorms.
                          20 minute clip of an intense thunderstorm off the coast of downtown Miami, overlooking South Beach


                          That is frightening stuff.

                          This hardly competes, but it is "home grown". There was a rather spectacular thunderstorm in August 1985 (the slide is dated) and I had time to set up the tripod and shoot a reel of film from the window at my then home in north Ayrshire. The light on the horizon to the right of the picture is the lighthouse at Toward Point on the Firth of Clyde.

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            A mixed bag again today. 13C pah!
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • Anna

                              Nice photo mangerton, cannot remember the time we last had a decent lightning storm here, I would quite welcome one at the moment.
                              Oh dear, this weekend is turning into a disaster. After my insomnia on Friday night I seriously, seriously overslept (10.30am! ) this morning, by the time I'd got myself organised to go and tackle outside jobs - it had started raining (again). Plus my kettle keeps randomly switching itself on and off and I've embarrassed myself (since deleted) by confessing to a crush on a guy who works at Waitrose. At least my Greek casserole was a success, I take comfort in that.

                              To keep on topic. It's a miserable, chilly, grey, 9.8° and more of the same to come it seems until the end of the month. Any predictions for best time to book holiday in North of England?

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                              • Petrushka
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12314

                                Cold and wet again here. Heating back on. Those forecasts of a May drought look more laughable by the day.
                                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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