Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Lovely day but rather humid made better by Walton's more brighter music! :)

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely day but rather humid made better by Walton's more brighter music! :)

Very humid considering it's not that hot: just returned from Lower Sydenham St Sprees bathed in sweat, even though in T-shirt and shorts.

The weather doesn't look at all good for the weekend!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The weather doesn't look at all good for the weekend!

No - forecasts for this part of the Pennines suggest that there's going to be a lot of rain from tomorrow onwards.

Still - today was glorious: plenty of sunshine to keep the temperature ... err ... temperate, enough cloud cover to prevent burning, and a breeze to keep things pleasant. Perfect walking weather, so that's what I did: all the way up to the top of Pen-y-Ghent (who IIRC is one of Bbm's ancestors?) for the first time (I attempted it in May but took a wrong turning and only did 2/3 of it). I'm glad to have done it, and there was a terrific view from the top - but the actual climbing was a bit ... well,dull: moorland, stoney ground and a lot of sheep. (I'll have a go at Ingleborough next time.) Still - it made the Fish & Chips in Settle very welcome, and I'm glad I didn't give up.

[teamsaint]

No - forecasts for this part of the Pennines suggest that there's going to be a lot of rain from tomorrow onwards.

Still - today was glorious: plenty of sunshine to keep the temperature ... err ... temperate, enough cloud cover to prevent burning, and a breeze to keep things pleasant. Perfect walking weather, so that's what I did: all the way up to the top of Pen-y-Ghent (who IIRC is one of Bbm's ancestors?) for the first time (I attempted it in May but took a wrong turning and only did 2/3 of it). I'm glad to have done it, and there was a terrific view from the top - but the actual climbing was a bit ... well,dull: moorland, stoney ground and a lot of sheep. (I'll have a go at Ingleborough next time.) Still - it made the Fish & Chips in Settle very welcome, and I'm glad I didn't give up.

well done on getting to the top. Hope you had some of those Cumbrian mushy peas to Go With !! Sounds a great day all round.

Had to do Cornwall and back today. At least it was nice conditions for the drive .

Keep your fingers crossed for good weather dahn sarf from 14th 17th please folks. 3 nights in a tent and 4 days of folk music and other assorted jollity for me . Hurrah !!!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mushy peas were indeed involved - but I think in Settle they still prefer to think of them as "Yorkshire Mushies".

A Folk Music Festival sounds brilliant - and by then the rain'll've stopped and the sun returned.

[teamsaint]

Mushy peas were indeed involved - but I think in Settle they still prefer to think of them as "Yorkshire Mushies".

A Folk Music Festival sounds brilliant - and by then the rain'll've stopped and the sun returned.

http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/

mostly folk, bit of pop, folk rock, touch of world etc.

always wondeful talent (musical !!) that you never knew existed, and some top names from the folk world. Quality line ups.

And a wonderful atmosphere, sensible, civilised sized crowds, and all in big top tents to keep the blazing sun off. A highlight of the year for me.

Try it, if any of you you are down Hampshire way next weekend.

(Lateralthinking was going to come down one year before he left the boards, IIRC. Be nice if he reappeared round here).

First pint is on me .


Edit : the festival is put together by a guy called Peter chegwyn, for the sheer love of the music. It shows.

super edit: I take it Settle is in Yorkshire, then,

[BBMmk2]

Hmmmm............just thinking about the current projector of ex-hurricane Bertha now downgraded to tropical storm. How is it that these terms are used over here, when we are not i9n the tropics, or have I been misinformed, all these years?

[Nick Armstrong]

All week, today has been predicted to be a wash-out with rain to start getting heavier all day... Was planning a cycle-free day. But last night, the online forecast switched to grey cloud all day with just some patchy light rain late afternoon.

Dry so far. Do I trust them and take the bike?

[BBMmk2]

I always take each day as it comes, these days. The forecasts are nearly always wrong! :(

[Pabmusic]

I always take each day as it comes, these days. The forecasts are nearly always wrong! :(

Philippine forecasts aren't. "Hot - humid" followed by "hot - humid" and leading to "hot - humid", with perhaps a typhoon to liven things up. Joseph Conrad and R L Stevenson understood.

[amateur51]

Philippine forecasts aren't. "Hot - humid" followed by "hot - humid" and leading to "hot - humid", with perhaps a typhoon to liven things up. Joseph Conrad and R L Stevenson understood.

Sounds comparable to a British Winter then Pabs - variations on "grey, wet, windy, cold" interspersed with pulse-quickening promises of "snow and ice".

[Pabmusic]

Sounds comparable to a British Winter then Pabs - variations on "grey, wet, windy, cold" interspersed with pulse-quickening promises of "snow and ice".

[HighlandDougie]

http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/

mostly folk, bit of pop, folk rock, touch of world etc.

always wondeful talent (musical !!) that you never knew existed, and some top names from the folk world. Quality line ups.

And a wonderful atmosphere, sensible, civilised sized crowds, and all in big top tents to keep the blazing sun off. A highlight of the year for me.

Try it, if any of you you are down Hampshire way next weekend.

(Lateralthinking was going to come down one year before he left the boards, IIRC. Be nice if he reappeared round here).

First pint is on me .


Edit : the festival is put together by a guy called Peter chegwyn, for the sheer love of the music. It shows.

super edit: I take it Settle is in Yorkshire, then,

You'll be taking the kilt, then, for Sunday - in Clan Macteamsaint tartan? It looks like good fun, although Rab Noakes must be pushing 80 .....

[mangerton]

Working till 8.00 this evening, always a bad start to the weekend.

On the other hand.... it was lovely here this morning - bright, sunny and hot. It became gradually duller during the afternoon*, and a torrential storm, accompanied by t & l, started around 4.30. The rain has now slackened off to a steady downpour, and suddenly work is not such a bad place to be.

* if I were a BBC weatherperson, I'd have said, "as we headed through the course of the afternoon".

[BBMmk2]

Pabs, over here: hot and humid!!! :)