Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I don't suppose it will help if I say that it is bright and sunny here,and just the cool side of mild?

I'm sure I'm very happy for you

Hope it warms up for you soon.

Forecast to improve from tomorrow/Thursday onwards. A fortnight ago we had a week of lovely weather, so I think the present state of affairs is just Winter throwing its toys out of the pram!

[vinteuil]

to have the delivery plates changed to our personalised ones. That's sad, isn't it?

... way beyond sad.

[alycidon]

... way beyond sad.

Oh! I fully understand your comment, Vinteuil - many people would say the same. The thing is, I have been fascinated by vehicle registration marks since being a wee lad in the 1940s, and when personalised plates first came into being in the 1970s I promised myself that one day, I would get one - but only if it was dirt cheap!

That day came about some eight years ago, but my initials being ILJ, one for me would be rather tricky so we obtained T5 MEJ - those being Mrs Alycidon's initials. From memory, we paid 275 smackeroons and it has graced four different cars.

Yes! It probably is sad, but it keeps me happy, and I don't have many of life's luxuries!

[Serial_Apologist]

A few quite large hailstones from a passing shower here about an hour ago, and now a long, flat-topped cotton-wool cumulonimbus on view from this window suggests something possibly thundery further to the north than The Heath, which is clearly visible from here 12 miles to the south, although thunder was not in the forecast.

Yesterday evening I almost caught hypothermia waiting long minutes on wind-blown railway stations among grimly clasped couples for under-heated trains home. Are the companies saving on heating bills, one wonders?

[vinteuil]

personalised plates

... whizzing up and down the M40 between London and Oxford pretty regularly, it is remarkable how many of the 'grander' cars -Rangerovers, Bentleys, Maybachs, large BMWs, Audis, Mercs - have personalised plates. Ever since the DVLA started selling them on a large scale, the number of such plates has increased in a big way; and since possessors of such plates will hang on to them, over time the percentage of personal plates is set to increase - over time may become preponderant...

If by some fluke the next car I bought came with a plate that looked as if it might be a 'personalized' one, I wd seriously think of paying for a more obviously anonymous / random one...

[eighthobstruction]

... whizzing up and down the M40 between London and Oxford pretty regularly, it is remarkable how many of the 'grander' cars -Rangerovers, Bentleys, Maybachs, large BMWs, Audis, Mercs - have personalised plates. Ever since the DVLA started selling them on a large scale, the number of such plates has increased in big way; and since possessors of such plates will hang on to them, over time the percentage of personal plates is set to increase - over time may become preponderant...

....grumble grumble....just identifying themselves to the motorway bridge markspersons when the judgement day comes.....

[teamsaint]

Oh! I fully understand your comment, Vinteuil - many people would say the same. The thing is, I have been fascinated by vehicle registration marks since being a wee lad in the 1940s, and when personalised plates first came into being in the 1970s I promised myself that one day, I would get one - but only if it was dirt cheap!

That day came about some eight years ago, but my initials being ILJ, one for me would be rather tricky so we obtained T5 MEJ - those being Mrs Alycidon's initials. From memory, we paid 275 smackeroons and it has graced four different cars.

Yes! It probably is sad, but it keeps me happy, and I don't have many of life's luxuries!

with 4 cars in 8 years, its not surprising !!

[BBMmk2]

Spring on it's way, I ask tentavely?

[Nick Armstrong]

Spring on it's way, I ask tentavely?

Going camping, Bbm?

[BBMmk2]

Going camping, Bbm?

Gotta be joking Cali! :) Havn'ty been camping since I was a Boy Scout haha!

Another lovely day here. We are having a book themed day today. and that is Harry Potter!

[alycidon]

with 4 cars in 8 years, its not surprising !!

Not really. One disappeared at the beginning of those eight years, and the newest one came at the end of those eight years. Therefore, two cars in eight years!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hey: it's just topped 11 degrees C here, which was predicted as top temperature anywhere across the country for today. It will probably have reached 13 C in central London - which is 55 F in old money. And it's expected to get to 15 C somewhere on Saturday.

I was going to say that this is as high as it has got thus far this year, however I see it managed 14 C on January 9, though that was a very windy and drizzly day. We only reached double figures once in February.

Next week's weather isn't looking certain.

[DracoM]

Temp here in Ultima Thule is 5C, and falling, but with a pretty bitter high wind chill factor, no sun. So......first real day of Spring...? Ahem.

[vinteuil]

Hey: it's just topped 11 degrees C here, which was predicted as top temperature anywhere across the country for today. It will probably have reached 13 C in central London - which is 55 F in old money.

... yes indeedy, balmy in Shepherd's Bush, greatcoat flapping unbuttoned while striding to waitrose...

And the barograph pushing 1045, which is almost as far as the graph paper will allow it (it goes from 950 to 1050).

[mercia]

as my father used to say (not sure why) - "its a bright monlit nicht tonicht"