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  • Lat-Literal
    Guest
    • Aug 2015
    • 6983

    #61
    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    I wish I'd thought of that! I got about four hours' intermittent sleep last night.

    It looks as if today's going to be cooler, thank goodness, and the air certainly feels fresher this morning.
    I did wonder, ferney, if I would wake up encircled by foxes, squirrels and badgers.

    Sadly that didn't happen but there is always the possibility tonight.

    I hope you have a much better sleep later especially if it is under the starry skies.

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    • greenilex
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1626

      #62
      It is a little cooler this morning on the South Coast.

      Have managed without the energy-guzzling American fan so far, but the gipsy items are going full tilt.

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #63
        Another hot day today. Around 30C!!
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #64
          Temperatures have dipped considerably in this bit of the Pennines: 18 degrees this morning - a drop of ten degrees. Cloud cover, mostly, too - and a breeze. Quite welcome.
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            #65
            Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
            I took a sleeping bag and a pillow into the back garden.
            I slept with a fan last night. I didn't mind the noise, but was annoyed when he kept waking me to ask for my autograph!

            I'd get me coat if it wasn't so hot...
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Zucchini
              Guest
              • Nov 2010
              • 917

              #66
              I quite like that!

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37846

                #67
                Originally posted by greenilex View Post
                It is a little cooler this morning on the South Coast.

                Have managed without the energy-guzzling American fan so far, but the gipsy items are going full tilt.
                I was going to ask his/her name, then I spotted Flay's #65!

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37846

                  #68
                  Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                  I did wonder, ferney, if I would wake up encircled by foxes, squirrels and badgers.

                  Sadly that didn't happen but there is always the possibility tonight.
                  That evokes the scene from L'enfant et les sortilèges where the child goes out into the nocturnal garden - one of my favourite passages in all music. Here I would be worrying about mosquitoes, which are both plentiful and voracious in this neck of the woods.

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                  • greenilex
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1626

                    #69
                    #61
                    Maybe the animals would respond to a set of panpipes...I have some bamboo canes?

                    So long as you don't start preaching to them...

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                    • Petrushka
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12323

                      #70
                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Temperatures have dipped considerably in this bit of the Pennines: 18 degrees this morning - a drop of ten degrees. Cloud cover, mostly, too - and a breeze. Quite welcome.
                      Same here. The actual weather bore little relation to that forecast. Instead it was 10/10ths cloud and temperatures dropped like a stone: 35 degrees yesterday to no more than 22 with a slightly chill breeze blowing. Disappointing.
                      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                      • Lat-Literal
                        Guest
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 6983

                        #71
                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        I slept with a fan last night. I didn't mind the noise, but was annoyed when he kept waking me to ask for my autograph!

                        I'd get me coat if it wasn't so hot...
                        Originally posted by greenilex View Post
                        #61
                        Maybe the animals would respond to a set of panpipes...I have some bamboo canes?

                        So long as you don't start preaching to them...


                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        That evokes the scene from L'enfant et les sortilèges where the child goes out into the nocturnal garden - one of my favourite passages in all music. Here I would be worrying about mosquitoes, which are both plentiful and voracious in this neck of the woods.
                        Yes - without a trampoline it is more that than Christmas at Waitroses.

                        Ah! Quelle joie de te retrouver, Jardin!

                        Breaking news - Miss Mitchell has just advised me that she has discovered a significant document. It shows that my grandmother's father was born out of wedlock and initially he took his mother's name, that is, on his birth certificate. Apparently that was Brewitt, a name that is not especially common and which hitherto was unknown to me. Only after her marriage did he take her husband's name of which, of course, I am aware. According to my subsequent research, Brewitts were originally from Yorkshire. This is both pleasing and unexpected. Additionally, it opens the door to the possibility that my great grandfather was half black. Miss Mitchell considers this to be extremely unlikely and points to information which suggests that he was the son of the two people who married. I am now caught between absolute trust in her and what is probably a mad fantasy but one which I rather like. What is clear is that he wasn't born near or around Bermondsey as all the others were but in Bermondsey so the truth of it is greater narrowing if that were possible. Not expanse!

                        Damn!
                        Last edited by Lat-Literal; 20-06-17, 20:39.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37846

                          #72
                          Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post

                          Breaking news - Miss Mitchell has just advised me that she has discovered a significant document. It shows that my grandmother's father was born out of wedlock and initially he took his mother's name, that is, on his birth certificate. Apparently that was Brewitt, a name that is not especially common and which hitherto was unknown to me. Only after her marriage did he take her husband's name of which, of course, I am aware. According to my subsequent research, Brewitts were originally from Yorkshire. This is both pleasing and unexpected. Additionally, it opens the door to the possibility that my great grandfather was half black. Miss Mitchell considers this to be extremely unlikely and points to information which suggests that he was the son of the two people who married. I am now caught between absolute trust in her and what is probably a mad fantasy but one which I rather like.
                          I've long had cause to question my parentage. An uncle, whom I'd only met on his deathbed, left me a generous wadge in his will. My dad - to whom I had minimal resemblance, appearance or talentwise - always joked that this uncle was my true father. But my dad was always in the habit of shrugging off one or another unacceptable truth with a "joke", this being a not uncommon form of denial among pre-WWI generations, confected in order to cover embarrassments. Possibly this might explain the lack of interest I have ever had in family history or relations, apart from unspokenly sympathising with some of them.

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                          • Lat-Literal
                            Guest
                            • Aug 2015
                            • 6983

                            #73
                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            I've long had cause to question my parentage. An uncle, whom I'd only met on his deathbed, left me a generous wadge in his will. My dad - to whom I had minimal resemblance, appearance or talentwise - always joked that this uncle was my true father. But my dad was always in the habit of shrugging off one or another unacceptable truth with a "joke", this being a not uncommon form of denial among pre-WWI generations, confected in order to cover embarrassments. Possibly this might explain the lack of interest I have ever had in family history or relations, apart from unspokenly sympathising with some of them.
                            Well, such things are possible. My mother's sister was old enough to have been her mother but she wasn't her mother and my grandmother gave birth to my mother when she was 40. But the experience that really sticks in my mind is what happened to the wife of a university friend. There they were having tea together one night and there was a ring of the doorbell. On the steps was her distraught older sister informing her that (a) their mother had just died and (b) she had an important announcement. The important announcement was that actually they weren't sisters. Rather than being her older sister as she had always suggested she was her mother. So my friend's wife learnt in an hour that her mother had died and yet she was still very alive and sitting in tears on the settee next to her. My mother said of the event that it mirrored what happened in a Catherine Cookson novel.

                            I won't keep to this course on this thread but it is stormy weather of a different kind. And I might observe gently it is hard to accept your point about "comparative inability"!!
                            Last edited by Lat-Literal; 20-06-17, 22:19.

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                            • DracoM
                              Host
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 12993

                              #74
                              Very odd a.m. oop 'ere: heavy rain overnight, thunder storms came and went - one exactly as kids trooped down to local school - and then a still, sullen grey, little movement of air, thickly humid, as if everyone was bracing themselves for the next downpour or whatever. So utterly different from previous days.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37846

                                #75
                                It reached a pretty stifling 30 C oop here, at which point I decided to make my afternoon stroll a short one of about a mile through the neighbouring woods. It's surprising how effective a large mature tree, or especially a group of same, can keep the air cool under its canopy. Judicious window opening just before midnight flooded much-needed fresh air into the flat, which with windows shut and curtains on the south side tightly drawn is now at a comfortable 24 C. Not sure if the 34 C all-time summer solstice record has been reached anywhere - I guess it'll be on the news, if that can be sandwiched in somewhere between the Queen's Speech and Brexit!

                                Looks like the thunderstorms currently lurking in the NW will get their act together and come sweeping through the rest of Wales and England tomorrow, an exciting prospect, bringing in somewhat cooler air from the west in their wake.

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