'The mornin' sun is risin' like a red rubber ball'

[cloughie]

My admiration for the 'Sea Interludes', and indeed for the whole of 'Peter Grimes', is as great as ever, but in recent years I've also come to love Frank Bridge's suite 'The Sea', which I consider at least as evocative as the Britten, and as 'La Mer' come to that (Debussy rather than Charles Trenet in this case).

The extremes of Cornwall’s sea conditions are maybe exemplified by the first lines of two songs much sung down here ‘Calm is the sea’ and ‘On a cold winter’s night with the storm at its height’.

[LMcD]

The extremes of Cornwall’s sea conditions are maybe exemplified by the first lines of two songs much sung down here ‘Calm is the sea’ and ‘On a cold winter’s night with the storm at its height’.

We lack your Atlantic rollers and rocky coasts, but we do have our Big Skies!

[Serial_Apologist]

We lack your Atlantic rollers and rocky coasts, but we do have our Big Skies!

But not Tintagel!!!

[LMcD]

But not Tintagel!!!

True - our nearest equivalent is probably the Backs in Cambridge.
Sorry about that.....

[oddoneout]

It's beginning to look as though a mutually beneficial trade deal between Suffolk and Cornwall - or at least certain parts of each - might be a better option than Bl**dy Br*xit.
Our local TV weather forecasts are pretty accurate, and they take care to remind viewers that things are usually a little different on the coast - or, as cloughie would say - 'charming'.

Neighbours to the North are working on it...

http://www.gonecrabbing.co.uk/shop/adults-seaside-clothing/580-unip-hoodie---british-navy

https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/self-rule-for-norfolk-could-come-out-of-perplexit-1-5981428

Sorry chosen wrong post to quote but you get the drift(longshore or otherwise) I'm sure.

[LMcD]

Neighbours to the North are working on it...

http://www.gonecrabbing.co.uk/shop/adults-seaside-clothing/580-unip-hoodie---british-navy

https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/self-rule-for-norfolk-could-come-out-of-perplexit-1-5981428

Sorry chosen wrong post to quote but you get the drift(longshore or otherwise) I'm sure.

The mention of the Home Guard merely confirms my belief that Captain Mainwaring/Mannering is the ONLY man to whom we need to turn in order to emerge triumphant from Theresa's Travails.

[cloughie]

The mention of the Home Guard merely confirms my belief that Captain Mainwaring/Mannering is the ONLY man to whom we need to turn in order to emerge triumphant from Theresa's Travails.

Stupid boy!

[LMcD]

Stupid boy!

I may be a stupid boy but I'm probably the only member of the squad who's still alive!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[LezLee]

This seems a good place to ask - do any of you say 'Red sky at night, sailors' delight...', or are you all of the 'shepherds' persuasion?
In Liverpool it was always 'sailors' and I never heard 'shepherds' till I moved to Sheffield.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This seems a good place to ask - do any of you say 'Red sky at night, sailors' delight...', or are you all of the 'shepherds' persuasion?
In Liverpool it was always 'sailors' and I never heard 'shepherds' till I moved to Sheffield.

There's the Eric Morecambe version, too:

"Red sky at night: shepherd's cottage on fire."

[Serial_Apologist]

There's the Eric Morecambe version, too:

"Red sky at night: shepherd's cottage on fire."

Or how about "Come home to a warm fire - buy a Welsh holiday cottage", from keeping local housing for local people protesters in the 1970s.

It's perhaps worth remarking that red sunsets are of two main kinds: the restrained ones associated with the flattening out or melting away of daytime cloud, usually accompanying a rising barometer, which indicate a settled day to follow; and the livid red sunsets set amid dramatic cloudscapes, which are indicative of wild, stormy weather to come - especially if the red illuminates clouds to the east. Colourless sunsets usually mean bad weather to follow. Red sunrises often precede wet weather the same day, with the sun's reflection being on advancing high cirrus cloud from an approaching frontal system, but not always, which often catches people out!

[antongould]

This seems a good place to ask - do any of you say 'Red sky at night, sailors' delight...', or are you all of the 'shepherds' persuasion?
In Liverpool it was always 'sailors' and I never heard 'shepherds' till I moved to Sheffield.

Shepherd’s up here in Cheviot sheep country .....

[oddoneout]

Or how about "Come home to a warm fire - buy a Welsh holiday cottage", from keeping local housing for local people protesters in the 1970s.

It's perhaps worth remarking that red sunsets are of two main kinds: the restrained ones associated with the flattening out or melting away of daytime cloud, usually accompanying a rising barometer, which indicate a settled day to follow; and the livid red sunsets set amid dramatic cloudscapes, which are indicative of wild, stormy weather to come - especially if the red illuminates clouds to the east. Colourless sunsets usually mean bad weather to follow. Red sunrises often precede wet weather the same day, with the sun's reflection being on advancing high cirrus cloud from an approaching frontal system, but not always, which often catches people out!

It's always been shepherds for me, possibly as I've always lived inland.
This evening's sunset was an impressive layer cake affair - alternating bands of black cloud and red sky - which quickly cleared to virtually clear.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's always been shepherds for me, possibly as I've always lived inland.
This evening's sunset was an impressive layer cake affair - alternating bands of black cloud and red sky - which quickly cleared to virtually clear.

That would have been God, posing as Marc Rothko.