Stormy Weather

[Anna]

Indeed, Anna - I hadn't realised electronic ignition had not yet reached that part of the world.

Now then S_A, I willnae hear a word agin the Scots! They may not have electronic ignition (and how do YOU know about this, you, as a reformed smoker since the New Year, surely they (lighters) are the spawn of the Devil and you have renounced such playthings, except if you attend a Festival) PLUS, if I get to Dundee I am on a promise for a fish supper at KT Tunstall'ss fave fishbar, in Anstruther!
Edit: Sorry mangerton, I'm just being my usual frivolous self, best to ignore me!

[eighthobstruction]

Just been watching the meekn'weak offerings from Glasto.....comes to something when Johnny Rotten and the guitarist from the Damned blow everybody else off stages 12345678..............................¬^*¬¬*!)/¬¬

....Corz that's just my opinion...........

[Anna]

Just been watching the meekn'weak offerings from Glasto.....comes to something when Johnny Rotten and the guitarist from the Damned blow everybody else off stages 12345678..............................¬^*¬¬*!)/¬¬
....Corz that's just my opinion...........

How you watching that 8thobs? Smartphone?
Oh, Lordy, Lordy, I must hoist meself into the 20th century and get some of these Apps thingys!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Just been watching the meekn'weak offerings from Glasto.....comes to something when Johnny Rotten and the guitarist from the Damned blow everybody else off stages 12345678..............................¬^*¬¬*!)/¬¬

....Corz that's just my opinion...........

The bass player from The Damned participates in free improvised music on a sort of bass bedpan of his own devising. A bass banjo, apparently. I once asked Lol Coxhill what was the most exciting thing that happened to him when playing with The Damned, and he told me it was when one of the other band members poured beer over his head.

An Elvis tribute band was playing at the local Crystal Palace Festival earlier, which the organisers had managed to shrink from occupying most of a large park last year to a dozen stalls and a bandstand in a back street. "It's better than Glastonbury, coz it's on yer doorstep innit!" I heard a woman say.

[BBMmk2]

Classic, SA!

Cat update: Shearer is home! have to keep an eye o9n him for the next few days though!

What a weekend that was!

[Nick Armstrong]

Only if he also puts some salad cream in his ham sandwiches (which have to be thickly sliced crusty white bread)

He lathers it on...!

[Nick Armstrong]

Lovely English summer day today

Balmy evening yesterday too - and barmy too... with reference to

a pre-prandial pint on the pavement among the heaving al fresco revellers in the mean streets of Soho

we got far more than we bargained for - it was the Gay Pride day, as none of us knew till we got there... Soho was cordoned off, it took ages to get to our curry place... and we saw such things...! Lads in nothing but speedos... lasses dressed as lads... both genders dressed as ballerinas... huge drag queens bigger than me... It was like Mardi Gras and the Notting Hill Carnival all rolled into one. We stood in the street drinking out pints looking all middle-aged Of all the days to meet in Soho...

And talking of which, and talking of

The Stones at Glasto!!

the funniest comment I have seen about the latter is that Keith was "dressed like an elderly lesbian on a watercolour painting mini-break"



I watched a bit of their 'set' - thought it was dreadful, actually....

[greenilex]

Lovely morning in the Deep South. Pinch 'n a punch for da first of da month...

[BBMmk2]

Gawd! Cali! That was a barmy then!! haha! We met up with Pride Parade down in darkest Brighton & Hove one year! Gawd!!! The sights to behold there! One toddler turned round to us and said they my daddies!! and so we thought hmmm ok! Ah well, the sign of the times we live in!?!?!?

Yes lovely day yesterday and today and methinks that nice looking round nyellow thing that hangs up in the sky maybe doiung it's job at this time of year, at last! Then we be getting the water boards saying we need to conserve water, as we havnt done the leeks again this year!?!?!?

[eighthobstruction]

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the funniest comment I have seen about the latter is that Keith was "dressed like an elderly lesbian on a watercolour painting mini-break"

Brillant....never quite GOT the take up ref adulation of Stones....they are like cartoons of themselves drawn by Ralph Steadman....Glasto set (watched for popular culture reference) was pretty dire (and somehow cheap, needed more musicians)....< but then again what do I know? In the sixties I prefered Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers + Dave Clark Five to the Beatles>....

Did watch some good Glasto stuff on red button in the end (one or 2)....impressed by Daughter (lovely layers of sound, both gentle and outlandish, really control over sound landscape, and brilliant restrained lead singer)....

[Angle]

For the record: yesterday's brilliant weather, reported by TV and press, was not of a national nature. Those of us in the North bore the day under sullen skies and with something of a heavy breeze and temperatures of around 14C.
It is grim up North again today.

[salymap]

It's not always as good as it should be in the SE. High temps are reported but we haven't had a day yet without a dreadful biting wind.

Better luck to the North soon though ;)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

the most stormy [high nergy gamma emitting places] in the universe



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[vinteuil]

It is grim up North again today.

... it so often is.

I often wonder why people choose to live there

On a slightly more serious note : I have often wondered why our prehistoric ancestors, as they trolled north from Africa, ever bothered to go north of the Loire. I mean, it's not as if population pressure was excessive in those days - there were few of us about - and you wd have thought a primitive tribe might have reached, say, the Dordogne, and thought, mmm, tasty here - lots of caves, prospect of pigs, oaks, truffles, grapes... mmm. And yet some of them struggled ever northwards - on and on - to Cumbria - to Caledonia - and (in God's name, why?? ) on to Iceland - to Greenland....


Why????????

[amateur51]

... it so often is.

I often wonder why people choose to live there

On a slightly more serious note : I have often wondered why our prehistoric ancestors, as they trolled north from Africa, ever bothered to go north of the Loire. I mean, it's not as if population pressure was excessive in those days - there were few of us about - and you wd have thought a primitive tribe might have reached, say, the Dordogne, and thought, mmm, tasty here - lots of caves, prospect of pigs, oaks, truffles, grapes... mmm. And yet some of them struggled ever northwards - on and on - to Cumbria - to Caledonia - and (in God's name, why?? ) on to Iceland - to Greenland....


Why????????

Why, even today, you have to go to the North Circular Road to get to IKEA, vints