Stormy Weather

[EdgeleyRob]

well it's lubbly here for mo'....listening to Taj Mahal : The Real Thing (loud)....take dogs upt moor soonish before promised heavy rain....tell me when it gets to you EdgleyRob and then it will be with me an hour later....

Luvvly day here too,no sign of the rain yet 8o.

[mangerton]

Poor mangerton, Oh dear

That's what I like about this forum - the unfailing sympathy one gets from other members.

[Barbirollians]

on this map it has not crossed the channel [yet]

afraid i find the bbc/met office combo somewhat less than accurate lately ...

I know what you mean . It has constantly underestimated the temperature here for the last three weeks !

[BBMmk2]

Down hereabouts, is the same story! inaccurate readings!

[Nick Armstrong]

Poor mangerton, Oh dear

She's so caring!

[Petrushka]

Unfortunately, the air con is blasting out so much cold air I've had to put on a jersey.

We have the same problem with the air con in our office too. It surely can't be healthy to go from ice cold office to tarmac-melting heat in the space of a few seconds. Perhaps one of our medical correspondents has a view on this?

[amateur51]

Cloudy build-up in NW2 but sun is still shining. BBC's heavy rain forecasts currently two hours later now than it was ... two hours ago

Where's me fir cone? Where's that seaweed? Oh dear, oh dear, stone me

[mercia]

carnival day in the local town - the one day in the year they'd like the sun to shine and I think its about to pour

[salymap]

86fin my kitchen with the door open. Wasps are beginning to appear too. Big spiders next, autumn round the corner.

Christmas not far off ----SORRY, it's the heatand the new BT Emails which have just deleted two mails before I could read them.

Ihope they are reading this - many people are fed up with the chaos they have created.

[Anna]

Christmas not far off ----SORRY, it's the heatand the new BT Emails which have just deleted two mails before I could read them. I hope they are reading this - many people are fed up with the chaos they have created.[/

Oh please saly, don't mention Christmas so early! (although I have noticed all the charity shops are having a christmas Card sale) and as for BT and their email ..... I too am most annoyed with them.

Few big drops here around an hour ago which evaporated instantly upon hitting the ground, now raining quite heavily. BBC said it would be 5pm, Met 7pm. Where is our Weather Guru S_A lately? He would have got the timing right!

Something quite funny, and rather sweet today - the local ducks often hang around the bus station (actually it's not a bus station in the accepted sense, more of a large parking area close by the river with a couple of shelters) Wedged between a wall and the end of one shelter were huddled seven gorgeous little ducklings, squeaking and chirping. A couple (non-local) were very concerned and were about to phone the Police and/or the RSPCA to rescue them until it was pointed out that this was normal. Lo and behold, fifteen minutes later Mother Duck arrived with two drakes as escorts and shepherded the little ducklings back home ........

[salymap]

That's alovely duckling story Anna. Years ago I was in St James's Park in London at lunch time. A mother duck rounded up the ducklings as they were practising diving. She swam away and the ducklings followed in single file. ALL BUT ONE. It dived repeatedly, watched by several people and didn't surface.

The other babies and mother had gone,we all looked at each other, it had drowned. It is quite possible, I was told.

[Nick Armstrong]

the local ducks often hang around the bus station

I had such a clear mental image of them smoking roll-ups and swigging Tennants Extra from the can...

[Anna]

That's alovely duckling story Anna. Years ago I was in St James's Park in London at lunch time. A mother duck rounded up the ducklings as they were practising diving. She swam away and the ducklings followed in single file. ALL BUT ONE. It dived repeatedly, watched by several people and didn't surface.

The other babies and mother had gone,we all looked at each other, it had drowned. It is quite possible, I was told.

That's really sad saly, I see from a quick google that ducklings can drown if they haven't absorbed enough oil from their mothers to coat their feathers, or I suppose it could have got entangled in weed (or grabbed by a fish?) or just a sickly baby which maybe is why the mother didn't come back .....?

Ontopic again: Rain has eased to spits, obviously more to come (Edit: Now approaching Monsoon scenario!) Temps now dropped from 23.5° to 18.5 so I think I was justified in my decision to cook a lamb tagine!

I had such a clear mental image of them smoking roll-ups and swigging Tennants Extra from the can...

They do often have a snooze in the shelter as if they own the place but I've never seen them doing anything with weed except eating it!

[vinteuil]

I had such a clear mental image of them smoking roll-ups and swigging Tennants Extra from the can...

... extraördinary how Caliban's past comes back to haunt him - and us...

[Flay]

Once when my kids were little they were watching a family of ducklings in the local country park. One of the boys said: "I hope the pike doesn't come and get them." At that moment there was a splosh and one of them disappeared! So sad.