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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26574

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    That sort of atmosphere makes me think of -

    http://www.bartleby.com/337/898.html

    "...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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    • DracoM
      Host
      • Mar 2007
      • 12991

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      That sort of atmosphere makes me think of -

      http://www.bartleby.com/337/898.html

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26574

        Early start today and just after getting up, biblical thunder and rain over London!
        "...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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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Likewise further down the road from you, Cali! Rain that is! Lots of it too!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37835

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Early start today and just after getting up, biblical thunder and rain over London!
            It was rumbling around to the south when I hit the sack around midnight, and I missed that lot. Still drizzling now as I write - temperature drop from 23 C to 14 C at midday a bit of a shock, though the smell of freshness is a welcome return, if not that of the moss in the clothes drying area!

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Thank goodness for a fresh wind down these parts!
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37835

                "I don't think it will rain much" I remarked to the young woman in cycle gear about to enter St Sprees, before myself taking the preferred attractive long route home via Forest Hill and the Horniman Museum, and arriving soaked through. So much for my amateur weather predicting abilities, aa well as the official forecast prediction of "light showers mainly affecting Kent and Surrey"

                Did anyone else get caught???

                One good outcome of my cycle shopping trip was obtaining the 10-CD block release of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (the 1979-82 TV series) for just £18 - an unbelievable snip of a price for what was being offered online for, let's just say, considerably more.

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Some satisfyingly fine weather on the North-West coast this past couple of days: a bit chilly and overcast in Blackpool yesterday (and the weather wasn't much better) - but lovely sunshine sparkling off the sea today in Lytham St Annes. The high temperatures of the beginning of last week have gone, but what's replaced it is perfect for walking.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Wind and rain today! Mind you the garden and plants need it, as we haven't had any recently. Just when we need to be out and about!
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12991

                      Haven't had it recently................blimey!!! Tha doesn't live oop 'ere then.
                      Yes, wild night, world looks a bit knackered and dazed by what happened back then this a.m.

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        We have his lordship, our cat, who we bought a brand new cat tree for him last week, and has ignored it, apart from the bottom posts of it, since we brought it in! today, with a bit of encouragement from MrsBBM, he has finally thought, well hmmm after all not too bad! Cats for you! :)
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37835

                          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                          We have his lordship, our cat, who we bought a brand new cat tree for him last week, and has ignored it, apart from the bottom posts of it, since we brought it in! today, with a bit of encouragement from MrsBBM, he has finally thought, well hmmm after all not too bad! Cats for you! :)
                          Has this anything to do with Andrew Lloyd Webber? Or the Scratch Orchestra??

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                          • DracoM
                            Host
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 12991

                            Back to weather [mea culpa]: yesterday caught in ferocious squall, and even through jacket and overtrousers was so totally saturated, soaked to skin that had to change EVERY item of clothing once back inside. Was out in't rain for literally 8 minutes!

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37835

                              Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                              Back to weather [mea culpa]: yesterday caught in ferocious squall, and even through jacket and overtrousers was so totally saturated, soaked to skin that had to change EVERY item of clothing once back inside. Was out in't rain for literally 8 minutes!
                              If it's any consolation, Draco, it's our turn tomorrow - for the heavy rain, at any rate. For that reason I've just done my week's shopping cycling trip today, rather than tomorrow; and it's lovely here - the showers predicted passing by giving spectacular sideways-on displays of cumulonimbus - and the sun remarkably warm, considering it's now way past the autumn equinox.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37835

                                It's been a beautiful, sunny, cloudless day across London today; but for some reason the temperatures hereabouts have failed to exceed 15 C, despite having registered 19 C in places as far apart as Watford, Brentwood, Dartford and Tunbridge Wells - unusually, a couple up on central London. Inside the flat here, with the temperature already continuously below 15 C, I have to contemplate putting on the central heating a lot earlier than usual.

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