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Hi Mahlerei, you are indeed right!Don’t cry for me
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Thanks Maestro! Then again, the site's 'coverage' of Harvey and Irma has been atrocious, with lots of contradictions and general howlers; anyone heard of the British Virginia Islands? And there's someone there who loves the word 'deadly', which seems to appear in every second headline (and not just weather-related ones, eother).Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostComment
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Well, ferocious torrential rain and blustering near gale force oop 'ere in concentrated bursts.Comment
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Sky Heroes Day, Kenley Airfield.
Finally, finally....they have got it completely right. Not sure if it is the lottery money, the planning which I was told took many months and it showed or my persistent "vision thing" from the sidelines for the protection and enhancement of our local airfield forwarded to key people but the tone and detail were spot on - the archaeological dimension, the information on the role of women pilots in WW2, the West Indian food tent next to the Portcullis Club, the train around the perimeter and the great covers band. All done in a mild way where the old airmen didn't feel threatened but respected. Ages 1 to 100. Many nationalities. Wonderful - and weather wise so atmospherically bracing we could have been a just a mile from the sea.
Congratulations - and thanks - to all involved.
Best song of the day: Not It Must Be Love (though great sax - I watched it intently), No Woman No Cry ("the Caribbean people are now selling all food for £2" - cue a mad rush to their tent), Fly Me To The Moon (passable if routine), California Girls (some achievement for two wags who happen to be good musicians) or YMCA (and did that joke spectacularly backfire given the bloke he brought back to the dancing - consequently in good spirits all round it was made into something more memorable) but this one which confirmed the strand of 1972:
O'Jays - Love Train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT9jTW7MHc
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Hi Mahlerie the reporting certainly has been rather bad. I see that winds of 55-60mph in the SW and SW Wales today!Originally posted by mahlerei View PostDon’t cry for me
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Er, well, to be pedantic, not quite!Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
True, the eye of a hurricane is a small area of more-or-less calm, for all sorts of complicated reasons to elaborate to expand on here; but the area into which the spiralling winds flow immediately surrounding the eye, known as the eyewall region, is always the area in which are concentrated the strongest and most destructive winds of the system, as well as the heaviest of its rainfall.Comment
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Many thanks, SA!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostEr, well, to be pedantic, not quite!
True, the eye of a hurricane is a small area of more-or-less calm, for all sorts of complicated reasons to elaborate to expand on here; but the area into which the spiralling winds flow immediately surrounding the eye, known as the eyewall region, is always the area in which are concentrated the strongest and most destructive winds of the system, as well as the heaviest of its rainfall.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Youre welcome, Bbm.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
(Incidentally, that's a phrase you hear everywhere these days that also gets on my nerves!
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Are we going to have a good day today?Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Until early evening, then Storm Aileen swings in from the west, its centre crossing Lancs and Yorks with anticipated gusts of 75 mph in a wide belt centred from Liverpool to Hull, and up to 55 mph over all areas to the south, 60 mph my guessing along the S coast. Rain from the associated fronts will probably reach our part of the world by 6 pm, and be through by midnight, with a sting in the tail just before they clear. Then it looks like howling winds for the rest of the night, leaves everywhere, branches and a few elderly trees in full leaf down, and a pretty blustery and showery day to come tomorrow. Having booked for a gig up in Dalston tonight this won't be one I'll be taking my brolly to! While not much looking forward to the 2 mile walk home from any one of the 3 nearest stations, this is one I we can't really miss, knowing the musicians as we do (Trish Clowes and her band) quite well. But it'll be worse for our friends oop north, whom I'd advise to stay well indoors tonight!Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
Well, you did ask!Comment
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Oh my goodness. Would this be a richochet effect from what's happening in the Carribean?Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Ominously dense and moving grey oop 'ere, rain beginning more or less exactly on cue as yr.no predicted. I think we're for it!Comment
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Storm Aileen certainly giving the NW a battering. Hope everyone ok up there.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Wild, wild rain and wind kept me awake much of the night, and this morning, the b.....y sun had the temerity to shine as if nothing had happened. But I see now on the distant Irish Sea coast behind the fells an ominously gathering nastiness.Comment
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Huge monsoon style downpour currently over London, barely 10 minutes after a cloudless balmy autumn blue sky...
And.... in the time it took to open the thread and type that, the sun's out again!"...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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