Stormy Weather II

[DracoM]

Ah yes..........what a picture!

[Pulcinella]

Your car must run very quietly, ferney.
Not a hope of listening to something like that in ours!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Your car must run very quietly, ferney.
Not a hope of listening to something like that in ours!

A fourteen-year-old Vauxhall Corsa - it is quiet; when I first got it, I kept thinking that the engine had stalled and tried to turn it back on again. (It wasn't quiet then!) Sciarrino and Frey are defeated by it, though.

[BBMmk2]

Lovely day today. A slight change of plan, as we forgot the power pack to my wheelchair! Never mind, we can do Seaview tomorrow. Incidentally, my father was born in Ryde.

[teamsaint]

A fourteen-year-old Vauxhall Corsa - it is quiet; when I first got it, I kept thinking that the engine had stalled and tried to turn it back on again. (It wasn't quiet then!) Sciarrino and Frey are defeated by it, though.

Having a company car, ( same marque that Richard Barrett's brother has ) mine has lots of modern gadgets, ( mostly unwanted) including that bloody awful auto turn off thing, so that when you think you have stalled, you haven't, but might as well have. I usually disable it though.
The DSCH VC came over rather well on the way home tonight ( LOOOOOONG day plus office football).
I think we should have a thread about what sounds good in the car, since so much is inaudible, especially if in a sporty model like some board members have .....

Piano music, choral stuff, Rock, most Jazz seems to work for me. and the Glazunov Brilliant classics box seems well adapted to the task, for some reason.

Anyway, thundery, raining, hot and sticky here. Proper Proms weather.

Edit: Worst car I had for stalling was a Focus that I got lumbered with at work for 6 months. It stalled for no obvious reason, and with a massive judder that felt like hitting a wall.

[BBMmk2]

A decent thunderstorm last night, and I slept through it, mostly anyway! Going to see The Needles today and maybe another pub lunch! Yesterday the pub was lovely, but the food rather pretty food for my liking!

[Serial_Apologist]

A decent thunderstorm last night, and I slept through it, mostly anyway! Going to see The Needles today and maybe another pub lunch! Yesterday the pub was lovely, but the food rather pretty food for my liking!

It seeems I wasn't so wrong after all!!!

Some amazing footage of lightning etc from across the south on utube.

[BBMmk2]

It seeems I wasn't so wrong after all!!!

Some amazing footage of lightning etc from across the south on utube.

About the pub lunch or weather, SA!

Today we going to Shanklin. A lovely seaside place. And when you're at the seaside, you just have to have a chippy!

[Serial_Apologist]

About the pub lunch or weather, SA!

Today we going to Shanklin. A lovely seaside place. And when you're at the seaside, you just have to have a chippy!

I reckon you're already chippy enough as you are Bbm!

Today the temperature took a sudden tumble to early October values, following on from the lunchtime drizzle I kept my head down through returning from Tescles, as it's known in Bristles. And, for lovers of hot weather, it looks set to be on the cool, unsettled side for the forseeable future, I'm afraid.

[BBMmk2]

I thought rather cold yesterday but MrsBBM was doing the hard work, pushing me in my wheelchair. We are hoping this is only a temporary situation. I do have an appointment early next month to see the surgeon for a chat.
Rather windy and blustery today. We not doing much today, as alas, our holiday has come to an end, tomorrow.

[DracoM]

Yep, dreech plus this a.m.. 'Breeze' [erm?] easterly, thin soaking fells rain.
What a difference a day makes!

[Serial_Apologist]

Woops! - blinding white lightning flash just then, almost right overhead - bit of a shock as the rain has almost stopped, having been chucking it down for the past half hour. Temperature's really taken a tumble - maxing out at 19 C this morning, and now only 15 C. We seem now to be in a totally different weather regime, paying for the last two months' subtropical luxuriousness - one more normal to our usual middling kind of summer, with highs way off to the south and westerlies bringing one front after another. Last night it really deluged for about 20 minutes just before midnight - a prolonged roar, with water cascading from overloaded gutters.

Strange that the flash didn't register on the live lightning map, even though one out Amersham way did. Maybe the radar registering it got hit!

Edit: That flash - over in Peckham, four miles to my north-east - has now appeared on the map! Maybe someone suddenly remembered to put 10p into the meter!!!

[BBMmk2]

That's something, SA! Been just rain like cats and dogs today, as well as last night! Unfortunately for me and MrsBBM we are back home from our wonderful IOW holiday. We going back next year!

[Serial_Apologist]

That's something, SA! Been just rain like cats and dogs today, as well as last night! Unfortunately for me and MrsBBM we are back home from our wonderful IOW holiday. We going back next year!

I've never been there - my nearest has been driving past Fawley oil refinery! It's said to be very beautiful and unspoilt, the Isle of Wight.

[BBMmk2]

I've never been there - my nearest has been driving past Fawley oil refinery! It's said to be very beautiful and unspoilt, the Isle of Wight.

Generally yes. although a few building sites here and there.