My breathing suffers once he temperature rises above 'nice and warm' :-\
Bad day today, any movement is an effort. So much so that Ive ordered an air conditioning unit (arriving Thursday) and in the meantime have destroyed nearly 8/9 months growth of facial fungus and its whole population of bacteria. A warning if you do that.............. beware when looking in a mirror for the fist time afterwards. I wondered who the ugly blighter starring back from the mirror was :o
Im told its 85F outside in the shade which to some of our colonial friends tis nothing but to us its O.T.T
85F ... hmm, that's 30C in new money. You must have got all our pre-summer heat, it's unseasonally cool here (barely pushing 25C, almost long-sleeves weather).
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
It must be hot! But after the shock I'll bet all yer mates tell you that you look 10 years younger. :thumbsup:
Try 47 degrees C, mate. Then you're cookin!
:beers: George
Hottest I ever experienced was a day where it peaked 56C in Iraq, March 2007, while running around in full uniform, body armor and and all the kit...
Wasn't fun...
Even 'oop North it is hot today so, like Jon, my face has been strimmed (found the odd birds nest and rasher of bacon :-[), the thinnest duvet has been put on the bed (they reckon it will be 20 degrees overnight) and the whiskery knitting needles (aka my legs) are being given an airing, thus scaring passers by. Luckily for them my hay fever means I can't really go out as my eyes end up all puffy and closed up 8). Supposedly even hotter tomorrow :sweat:
82F up here on t' moors!
Don't like it.............
27.2 C here in West Swindon,to da**ed hot,been sleeping on top of the bed not in it.
Wouldn't be without my portable air-conditioner! 8)
Bought it about five years ago as I absolutely can't stand hot weather and dread summer every year. It lives in the bedroom but with the doors open in the house the air tumbles down the stairs cooling the whole house. Also no more restless nights where it's too hot to sleep :)
Best investment I ever made :thumbsup:
Paul
I experienced 55+degC in Syria a few years ago (1996ish I think) but I don't remember it feeling as hot as it did today. Then again the reason it felt hot today was that I had a training day in Staines where I had to leave the car outside. It heated up like an oven so when I got back in I could hardly touch the steering wheel. Couple to that I then drove for 2.5 hours home with the AC not working and the front electric windows not working (stuck shut) and believe me, that was ruddy hot!
Quote from: oscar on June 30, 2015, 05:02:31 PM
82F up here on t' moors!
Don't like it.............
nice n' cool here at sunny Redcar
There's Hot and there's Hot, a lot depends on the Humidity.
In Tenerife in high Summer it regularly gets above 40 (Celsius) and sometimes hits 50, but it never feels as Hot as it is as the Humidity level usually remains good.
It is only when we get a "Calima" that it becomes uncomfortable and those with Asma and other breathing difficulties are advised to remain indoors.
A "Calima" by the way is when the sky is full of sand clouds with sand picked up from the Sahara Desert which is not to far away. The Sun's rays get trapped below these clouds and amplify and the temperature soars.
I had to work in a boiler house today doing modifications to a control panel and I can tell you it was hot, never seen so much water coming out of my body, just the wrong day to do that job in this heat today, oh and my boss asked if I had lost weight when I got back to the office lol.
Got to about 23 degrees here today but tempered by a strong wind which got stronger as the day progressed.
The wind was strong enough to prevent the Fowey to Mevagissey ferry running today.
Of all the days to pick to do some ironing :smackedface:
At last,
hooray,
the climate in Blighty is becoming tolerable.
I dont think I'll need the lecy blanket to warm up my bed tonight :)
I might even be able to plant out my tomatoes soon ?
and the beans that went out 2 months ago can stop shivering.
Summer, warm weather, gawd who have expected that...............?
Hot weather during Wimbledon, well there's a rarity.!
I'm in Washington DC this week and it's hot in t'colonies. 90 degrees warm in old money (sorry we don't do centigrade over here at all) and 90% humidity,which is an unpleasant but fairly typical summer combination :goodbye:
Quote from: Chetcombe on June 30, 2015, 10:59:46 PM
old money (sorry we don't do centigrade over here at all)
Ha ! nolonger do we do centigrade,
don'y'know they furrigners changed it to Celsius ( degrees Celsius °C ) a wee while back,
then they took it upon themselves to adopt Kelvin as the SI unit of temperature,
(mark you, not degrees Kelvin, no little circle needed, just Kelvin, symbol a plain K ! )
harumpf.
Système International d'Unités, I think they call themselves, somewhere in Paris or, well over there somewhere.
Well you mentioned the subject ! Do try to keep up in the colonies over there :laugh3: :laugh: :bounce:
Me, at home in the garden, in SW England, I know it will be beginning to get comfortable at anywhere over 70F :) should I be so lucky, it wont last :(
Summer = a couple of hot days and a thunderstorm , usually.
Quote from: Agrippa on June 30, 2015, 10:52:07 PM
Summer, warm weather, gawd who have expected that...............?
In Scotland ? No one, not even an optimist and they are a rare , , , oh hum ,, errum :laugh3:
I'm looking out my long johns, there'll be snow on the way in a few days.......
Quote from: Agrippa on June 30, 2015, 11:36:41 PM
I'm looking out my long johns, there'll be snow on the way in a few days.......
:laughabovepost:
whadu mean " looking out", I still got mine on, ye cana' take chances mon.
Quote from: MalcolmAL on June 30, 2015, 11:27:06 PM
Quote from: Chetcombe on June 30, 2015, 10:59:46 PM
old money (sorry we don't do centigrade over here at all)
Ha ! nolonger do we do centigrade,
don'y'know they furrigners changed it to Celsius ( degrees Celsius °C ) a wee while back,
then they took it upon themselves to adopt Kelvin as the SI unit of temperature,
(mark you, not degrees Kelvin, no little circle needed, just Kelvin, symbol a plain K ! )
harumpf.
Système International d'Unités, I think they call themselves, somewhere in Paris or, well over there somewhere.
Well you mentioned the subject ! Do try to keep up in the colonies over there :laugh3: :laugh: :bounce:
Me, at home in the garden, in SW England, I know it will be beginning to get comfortable at anywhere over 70F :) should I be so lucky, it wont last :(
Summer = a couple of hot days and a thunderstorm , usually.
LOL!! Shows how long I have been away (20 years actually). I will try and be a better example to my colonial friends in the future :D
Quote from: Chetcombe on June 30, 2015, 11:57:25 PM
Quote from: MalcolmAL on June 30, 2015, 11:27:06 PM
Me, at home in the garden, in SW England, I know it will be beginning to get comfortable at anywhere over 70F :)
LOL!! Shows how long I have been away (20 years actually). I will try and be a better example to my colonial friends in the future :D
:laughabovepost:
actually, you made me chuckle on two fronts, at home and in the lab.
Cos I was brung up in the dark days when dinosaurs roamed the wild,
I was (am) happy at home in F, and I know when it is safe to go out without my longjons in summer if it is in F,
but at work it didnt make sense if it wasnt in C or K
that's why I ended up a schizophrenic and dyslexicule :)
Basinga I can top you on that one 62.8C in full kit but that's a different story.
Apart from those who sadly suffer more than most in the heat (that doesn't mean been sweaty or more than usual in some cases :confused1: )
Embrace it come the next bank holiday weekend it will been glorious all through the traffic jams until you arrive at you weekend get away then it will :censored: it down!!
:laugh3:
Quote from: MalcolmAL on June 30, 2015, 11:27:06 PM
then they took it upon themselves to adopt Kelvin as the SI unit of temperature,
(mark you, not degrees Kelvin, no little circle needed, just Kelvin, symbol a plain K ! )
harumpf.
Nowt wrong with kelvin, that's a
proper British measurement (and before anyone jumps in with "he was Scottish not British", he was actually born in Belfast :P)
Quote from: MalcolmAL on June 30, 2015, 11:27:06 PM
Quote from: Chetcombe on June 30, 2015, 10:59:46 PM
old money (sorry we don't do centigrade over here at all)
Ha ! nolonger do we do centigrade,
don'y'know they furrigners changed it to Celsius ( degrees Celsius °C ) a wee while back,
1948 ... how old
is Chetcombe :P
Well, Summer was nice while it lasted. Weather forecast says thunderstorms overnight at my lovely hometown, followed by torrential rain tomorrow morning. Aaah, the British weather :)
Quote from: MikeDunn on July 01, 2015, 09:19:19 AMScottish not British
Not long to go now till that will become a common phrase ! ;)
That will cause the Americans some problems, they have enough trouble distinguishing the English from British !!
Quotehe was actually born in Belfast
I never knew that, quite an educational forum this place :) :NGaugersRule:
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 10:29:40 AM
Well, Summer was nice while it lasted. Weather forecast says thunderstorms overnight at my lovely hometown, followed by torrential rain tomorrow morning. Aaah, the British weather :)
Right on cue !>>
Quote from: MalcolmAL on June 30, 2015, 11:27:06 PMSummer = a couple of hot days and a thunderstorm , usually.
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 10:29:40 AM
Well, Summer was nice while it lasted. Weather forecast says thunderstorms overnight at my lovely hometown, followed by torrential rain tomorrow morning. Aaah, the British weather :)
Look on the bright side. I believe Cliff won't be at Wimbledon this year :D
Someone turned the sun off ☁️ in Wolves
Still 'ot tho' 🔥
C.
It may have gone but its warm down err on t' M20 9n static traffic
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 10:29:40 AM
Well, Summer was nice while it lasted. Weather forecast says thunderstorms overnight at my lovely hometown, followed by torrential rain tomorrow morning. Aaah, the British weather :)
:bounce: :laugh: Woopeeeeeeee. I might be able to breath again ::)
Hate it when it gets above 23degrees C - Inhalers at my side, hayfever pills not coping currently 27C in the living room with all the windows open. :jawdropping: :whiteflag: :veryangry2:
If I drink much more fluid I'll need a drip to the karzi :smiley-laughing:
Ye moan when it's cold, ye moan when it's warm,
I'm sitting with my shirt off and a bottle of fruit
cider and ice, much nicer than winter .....
By the way Lord Kelvin aka William Thomson
at the height of his fame dismissed many new
developments as having no future or being
erroneous,luckily others paid no attention to
such twaddle otherwise we wouldn't be able to
enjoy Eastenders in 3D or microwave burgers.
Quote from: Agrippa on July 01, 2015, 02:52:08 PM
Ye moan when it's cold, ye moan when it's warm,
Actually, I don't moan when it's cold. Many people think I'm a bit weird about it but I actually like the cold. At least if it's uncomfortably cold you can add layers and things to warm up.
Not a lot you can do about it when you're sat in your office overheating, dreaming of ice baths...
The sky now has that yellowish tinge that presages a thunderstorm, and a few rather large raindrops have fallen but it's still 28 degrees outside and 26½ degrees inside.
I actually enjoy a good thunderstorm but it seems we haven't had one up here for a long, long time.
Quote from: Agrippa on July 01, 2015, 02:52:08 PM
otherwise we wouldn't be able to
enjoy Eastenders in 3D or microwave burgers.
You say that like either are an advantage ... >:D
Ah, the Lord Kelvin, that takes me back a bit, when I was a young lad I worked at the BBC Glasgow TV studios and had lodgings in Kelvin Gardens, or Grove or something like that !
Quote from: newportnobby on July 01, 2015, 03:51:22 PM
The sky now has that yellowish tinge that presages a thunderstorm, ,
I actually enjoy a good thunderstorm
Your wish may come true soon if you are near any of these blobs :)
http://en.allmetsat.com/images/lightning-united-kingdom.php (http://en.allmetsat.com/images/lightning-united-kingdom.php)
woops, I've edited out the image cos the relevant one is long gone and it was updating to the current !
And that wave over cornwall and south wales is heading eastwards...
EDIT: Oops, I've assumed again. I made the assumption because in that wave the white dots are focussed on the right. Going onto the website and watching the animation, it's actually clearly heading North...
Quote from: MikeDunn on July 01, 2015, 04:19:05 PM
Quote from: Agrippa on July 01, 2015, 02:52:08 PM
otherwise we wouldn't be able to
enjoy Eastenders in 3D or microwave burgers.
You say that like either are an advantage ... >:D
It's all a matter of taste, a Lidl microwave burger with
some chili relish is the bees knees , cat pyjamas etc,
about £1.75 for two........ :food:
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 04:38:07 PM
And that wave over cornwall and south wales is heading eastwards...
EDIT: Oops, I've assumed again. I made the assumption because in that wave the white dots are focussed on the right. Going onto the website and watching the animation, it's actually clearly heading North...
and the Cornwall blob is fading out ? it was, earlier today, as intense as that stuff over Newcastle / NE.
Been a while since there was that much activity, and then there was pics on the evening news of houses being set alight etc., so I hope everyone has escaped it today :(
Quote from: newportnobby on July 01, 2015, 03:51:22 PM
I actually enjoy a good thunderstorm but it seems we haven't had one up here for a long, long time.
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 01, 2015, 05:26:38 PM
there was pics on the evening news of houses being set alight etc., so I hope everyone has escaped it today :(
Umm - I've just gone off thunderstorms and a small amount of :poop: has escaped :worried:
I hope no-one's rails are buckling ?
The Real Railway in France had some problems with points jamming.
Best regards,
Joe
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 03:48:44 PM
Actually, I don't moan when it's cold. Many people think I'm a bit weird about it but I actually like the cold. At least if it's uncomfortably cold you can add layers and things to warm up.
Not a lot you can do about it when you're sat in your office overheating, dreaming of ice baths...
Exactly, I'm with you on that one :thumbsup:
Paul
Not sure what all the fuss is about !
Down here we barely reached 18 degrees today and generally overcast with a brisk cool wind !
Yep, in the west of Scotland it was pleasantly warm and hazy,
judging by some of the posts half the forum members
must live in Death Valley. The only things buckling here
are the knees of winos.... ;D
I dont know Death Valley... but Leeds, West Yorkshire (not Alabama) has gone up to 33C
Thats a lot!
Wish it would snow :cold: just love that third rail arcing.
Trains late because of the 'extreme heat'
Not saying it's hot in my house, but a pair of hobbits just threw a ring in it.
:laughabovepost:
Paul
Just been out in the garden to put a load of weed killer down before it does get warm .I can now just sit under the ceiling fan and keep cool with lots of cold drinks next to me,it's times like this that I'm glad I've retired.
Bob
Hobbit post: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: also!
I never complain about hot weather. I can sympathise with people whose health is affected by it but cold weather can be just as detrimental. And hay fever always ruins June for me, whether it is hot or cold.
Having spent most of my working life working outdoors I treasured the few weeks of summer and dreaded winter which always seemed to drag on for months and months. I grew to hate it in the end.
Still, cooler this morning, with the promise of thunderstorms, which means I will spend a lot of time trying to calm down my dog who will have turned into a quivering jelly. Heigh ho...
Chris
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on July 02, 2015, 09:10:14 AM
I can now just sit under the ceiling fan and keep cool with lots of cold drinks next to me,it's times like this that I'm glad I've retired.
Bob
Purely on a medical basis cold drinks are not good for you in this heat, Bob :no:
All that happens is your body works frantically to bring the fluid up to your core temperature and so you end up perspiring. Sorry, but it's better to have a cuppa tea to keep your fluid levels where they should be.
Ok NPN I'll bring the kettle in and make coffee instead.
Bob
Do what the Aussies do. Try beer. :D :beers:
George
Sorry Bealman I'm a Coffee totaler only an ocasional cider but now not allowed even that, maybe just one or two at Christmas though I will probably suffer afterwards.Good job I don't live in Australia .
Bob
Ice cream's off...
(http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/meltedvan01.jpg)
Very funny Basinga HAHA.
Bob
Quote from: Basinga on July 01, 2015, 10:29:40 AM
Well, Summer was nice while it lasted. Weather forecast says thunderstorms overnight at my lovely hometown, followed by torrential rain tomorrow morning. Aaah, the British weather :)
::) So whats happened to the doom and despondency ?
We had a great relaxed nights sleep and its just starting to dribble a few spots of rain now.
OK its cooler and easier for breathing this morning but that's all. ot even a single flash of lightning or clap of thunder to disturb us but we are 4 miles norf of the 'city centre'
We had a thunderstorm at about 10pm last night but it was a pretty half-hearted affair and petered out after about ½ an hour ::)
It's still 24 degrees inside.
Quote from: jonclox on July 02, 2015, 11:17:27 AM
So whats happened to the doom and despondency ?
Apparently, it went to North France...
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime (http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime)
Warning, you may find yourself staring at this page for a few hours...
:laughabovepost:
Thankfully you refuse to so the long haul flights, Mick!
I remember on my way to Tennessee being sat in a 747 in a holding pattern over Chicago in a massive thunderstorm.
Cabin crew and everyone was strapped in and the plane dropped like a stone. When the stewardesses screamed that's when I thought "This is it. I guess this is when I find out what it's like to be a fly hitting a car windscreen" :dighole:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 02, 2015, 11:43:17 AM
I guess this is when I find out what it's like to be a fly hitting a car windscreen" :dighole:
Do you mean, the last thing to go through your mind was your :moony: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
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Quote from: newportnobby on July 01, 2015, 05:35:05 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on July 01, 2015, 03:51:22 PM
I actually enjoy a good thunderstorm but it seems we haven't had one up here for a long, long time.
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 01, 2015, 05:26:38 PM
there was pics on the evening news of houses being set alight etc., so I hope everyone has escaped it today :(
Umm - I've just gone off thunderstorms and a small amount of :poop: has escaped :worried:
:(
was I right or was I right :(
did you see the news ? house hit rooof burnt off :(, greenhouses destroyed :( :(
I did see that :o
The forecast is for more thunderstorms through tonight/tomorrow morning :uneasy:
Bring on the thunderstorms and get rid of this silly weather :claphappy:
Paul
And get the gritting lorries ready.............
For this evening/tonight and to begin with on Saturday morning the weather persons are now offering us local widespread flash flooding which will be a pleasant (?) change from all this heat :(
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..inside my home....I think tonight I will go to sleep in my cellar near the layout..no humidity and very fresh.. :)
HOT greetings from Italy
Marco
Just back from the docs with extra steroids to help the breathing and some Tramadol for pain relief for the chest pain :censored:
enjoy it , there's only 174 shopping days till Christmas :D
Quote from: Oldman on July 03, 2015, 12:36:06 PM
Just back from the docs with extra steroids to help the breathing and some Tramadol for pain relief for the chest pain :censored:
Thank God for Steroids I say, although I only take them when desperate solutions are needed.
I have checked to make sure my stock of them is current in my emergency kit that the doc. lets me keep at home in readyness
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on July 02, 2015, 10:54:08 AM
only an ocasional cider but now not allowed even
Gawd Bob, is life worth living :o
I'll think (sadly) of you when I have mine with tea ...
Our little lane is like a Tractor n Trailer Grand Prix circuit what with the farmers getting as much hay in before the threatened deluge.
Blue the cat is staying well away from the 10 foot high hedge between us n them!
The coolest room in the house is showing 24.5c.
Dave G
Quote from: daveg on July 03, 2015, 07:07:31 PM
The coolest room in the house is showing 24.5c.
Dave G
Likewise..................but it's due to get warmer :worried:
Still not too hot here but very pleasant today.
Reached about 21 today outside but a strong Westerly keeps the temp down.
Quote from: daveg on July 03, 2015, 07:07:31 PM
The coolest room in the house is showing 24.5c.
boohoo,
where is the 'green with envy' emoticon when one needs it !
Only just getting up to 21C in my cave, after being a perishing 19C all day :( ,SW of Bristol.
so, everyone is complaining about their ailments -
mine is a hip/thigh/lower back problem which suffers in the cold :(
I call it my 'war wound', the war against recalcitrant old British 500cc singles :(
The 1000cc V twins gave me no prob though, when I could afford to convert to them, but by then the damage was done :(
The youngsters hereabouts with their push-button starters will wonder what my problem was ;)
Well I'm no fan of the heat at all, I feel really :sick: like seasickness when it's much hotter than mid 20's and hayfever starts playing up (though thankfully I'm not chronic with it these days like when I was younger). I worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico with 47oC day time and 35oC at night but it was 100% humidity and lightening most nights -all the night. With a full safety kit on you had about 30secs outside before all your clothes were just saturated!! I much preferred working in Finland and -38oC! We shouldn't complain too much to be honest but I dug out my cooler for the flat today. You put water and ice in the bottom and it cools the blower, not quite as good as AC, but better than nothing.
...Only thing is I switched it on half an hour ago after a year packed away in the cupboard. Started beeping and I can't find the destruction manual to remind me why :doh:
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Quote from: RST on July 03, 2015, 09:39:43 PM
Well I'm no fan of the heat at all, I feel really :sick: like seasickness when it's much hotter than mid 20's and hayfever starts playing up
That's exactly how I feel, really ill, and people wonder why I complain about hot weather :no:
Paul
Quote from: RST on July 03, 2015, 09:39:43 PMthough thankfully I'm not chronic with it these days like when I was younger
Interesting you say that, my findings also, bad in my 20's &30's ( inherited from two chronic cases, my maternal gran and my father ! no hope !! ) Gradually declined with age till nonexistent, (then I nearly became nonexistent but that's another story ! )
I have been able to console many young sufferers by telling them to wait till they get old ;)
Not so fast, Malcolm :no:
I didn't have any hay fever until I was in my mid 30's but have suffered ever since.
Exactly how old does one have to be to 'grow out of it'?
It'll scare the bejaysus out of folks if I sneeze whilst in me coffin >:D
I had it (quite bad) till I was about 20 then it got better but started to reappear about 5 years ago (though not as bad).
Quote from: newportnobby on July 03, 2015, 09:57:10 PM
Exactly how old does one have to be to 'grow out of it'?
It'll scare the bejaysus out of folks if I sneeze whilst in me coffin >:D
:laughabovepost:
Thanks for that, laughing my sox off, better than those Victorian bells on strings thigumies in coffins 'just in case'
LOL
I wont tell you how old
a) too close to my feminine side
b) I may frighten you more >:D
just dont get a.n.other emergency late in life ( I always was late - slow developer ;) ) they fill you up with pills and a low-level allergy then manifests and you suffer mild hayfever-like symptoms all year round :(
Hey, come on everyone, we are still alive ? oh ohh (howzat for tempting providence ? )
I had it very bad as a child then it peaked in my 20's to the point I was asthmatic with it and on some occasions just couldn't breathe. I was doped up and on inhalers but I remember staying with an ex GF down on the Black Water in Essex one time and we almost called an ambulance in. I twas sick from from March through to October (tree pollen does me in) and some days just couldn't get out of the house. Rather strangely I moved from Aberdeen to Inverness in 2005 and overnight it went away completely. These days in my mid 30's it's slowly coming back but nothing like the sneezing fits I used to take (20-30 sneezes in succession every hour or so starts to hurt real bad). If I go down to my Mothers in Falkirk I'm convinced the hedge next to her house sets me off so I always dread going down in summer as I don't get any sleep each night.
Before anyone mentions I can't stand honey (too sweet for me) and I tried homeopathic remedies, although the dose is so small the last time I tried them my, eyes went so bad the film on the front of my eye balls broke down and I was pulling the thin webs so I could see again! So there's definitely something in it that I reacted to even worse!!!
I don't have any major health issues yet so I'm thankful of that one! Considering my family history I know what's coming and it ain't good if I last much past 50 anyway!
Quote from: RST on July 03, 2015, 10:29:54 PM
I moved from Aberdeen to Inverness in 2005 and overnight it went away completely.
In my case also, an overnight cure , , well 3 weeks on a boat , , but a little more distant - Brazil !
Not to worry tho' it was extra-first class, there were only 14 of us and one was an Ambassador ;) , he dined with the ship's captain, I only rated a seat at the ship's doctor's table :(
Then I made the mistake of returning, some wee while later, to England ( only , you understand, for a sight of some green fields and a telephone system that worked :) )
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 03, 2015, 10:43:22 PM
only 14 of us and one was an Ambassador ;) , he dined with the ship's captain, I only rated a seat at the ship's doctor's table :(
'scuse me for quoting myself but
isnt google and wikip great when one cannot remember the finer details ! - -
The tupamaros guerrilas :-
"Of particular note are the kidnapping of powerful bank manager Ulysses Pereira Reverbel and of the British
ambassador to Uruguay, Geoffrey Jackson, as well as the assassination of Dan Mitrione, "
poor fella, not long after we got off at Santos he carried on down to Uruguay and soon after he was got by them :(
Not physically maltreated I think, and was later released,
Not a happy time though :( .
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 03, 2015, 10:43:22 PM
Quote from: RST on July 03, 2015, 10:29:54 PM
I moved from Aberdeen to Inverness in 2005 and overnight it went away completely.
In my case also, an overnight cure , , well 3 weeks on a boat , , but a little more distant - Brazil !
Not to worry tho' it was extra-first class, there were only 14 of us and one was an Ambassador ;) , he dined with the ship's captain, I only rated a seat at the ship's doctor's table :(
Then I made the mistake of returning, some wee while later, to England ( only , you understand, for a sight of some green fields and a telephone system that worked :) )
LoL, reminds me of: "missueur with this Roche you are really spoiling us". Yes as I've done boat work for the last 4 years everyone laughed at me because every time we came within 20 miles of port my hayfever kicked off! I can sniff pollen out 30 miles+ offshore if the wind direction is right. I used to dine with our captains often enough -but they usually wear jeans and a T-Shirt on my boats. Pretty casual, everyone eats the same from the minced beef tank I'm sure we replenished with the tankers each port call. But that's going way OT!!
I added an edit to my above post about our ambassador, we may have crossed ?
Quote from: RST on July 03, 2015, 11:04:04 PM
everyone laughed at me because every time we came within 20 miles of port my hayfever kicked off!
I can sniff pollen out 30 miles+ offshore
I believe you ! very sensitive is the nose (well all those glands round the eyes, sinus, as well etc. )
Quote
Pretty casual, everyone eats the same from the minced beef tank
my final anecdote for the night (if you're lucky ! ) :-
in those days t'was de rigueur deck quoits and cocktails during the day and dress for dinner.
However,
the really :laugh: :laugh3: :heart2: bit was :
we sailed light ( empty ) from Southampton to Lisbon where we were due to pick up cork ! yep, no kidding! and two breeding bulls ( deck cargo )
but that involved passage thro' the infamous Bay of Biscay
of notorious storms etc. ! yes, you are ahead of me :)
' nuf to say : Doctor was ill in his bunk and we dined alone, with table edges raised and tumblers not glasses for the wine ha-ha
Enough of this , , ,
Quote from: newportnobby on July 03, 2015, 09:28:39 AM
I did see that :o
The forecast is for more thunderstorms through tonight/tomorrow morning :uneasy:
Hold on to your hats !
after much non-activity over the 4casts for early evening,
now lots of activity over Portland - Isle of Widgit and London/home counties and also a big splodge over Kent !
All erupted in the last wee mins.
North Wales - Midlands becoming quite active as well !
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 04, 2015, 12:19:38 AM
Hold on to your hats !
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Wet overnight here. If there was any thunder it didn't wake us. Me n the cat were up at 05:30 to find it dull but still warm.
A lovely bright morning just now (07:49) with lounge temp showing an in the shade 22.2c.
Enjoy your weekend folks, hot, dry, wet or cold! :beers:
Dave G
Terrific thunderstorm here last night. I was kept awake until 03:30 by the storm, and then woken up again at around 04:30 by the dog (she is scared of thunder). Still, looks quite pleasant out at the moment.
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 04, 2015, 12:29:01 AM
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 04, 2015, 12:19:38 AM
Hold on to your hats !
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81786082/NG/Hats%26Coats.jpg)
Strange We must be slap bang in the middle of the narrow corridor between the 2 clusters on and around the souf coast (IOW etc) and the London one.
Its still hot and completely dry like it was yesterday around here :worried:
Quote from: MalcolmAL on July 03, 2015, 11:27:43 PM
in those days t'was de rigueur deck quoits and cocktails during the day and dress for dinner.
I don't care whose table it was. There's no way I'd don a dress for dinner :no: :laugh:
Thunder and lightning at 11.00pm, 3.30am and 05.30am.
No flashfloods, plagues of locusts, armageddon etc :sweat:
I wouldnt, dont, dress for dinner neiver NOW ! :)
Phew, rough night :(
:sorrysign:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 04, 2015, 12:54:57 PM
armageddon etc
I'm working on it, give me a mo.
muwahhaa.
You know the Cecil B. DeMille epic : filming the Parting of the Red Sea when a voice from out the clouds says
" Ready when you are Cecil "
:( :( No thunder/rain or floods here still the Ive had to give in and start a short blast of the great unloved steroids
Quote from: Basinga on July 02, 2015, 08:52:20 AM
Not saying it's hot in my house, but a pair of hobbits just threw a ring in it.
You shouldn't give the Hobbits so much beer then they wouldn't throw up their rings.
Best thing about hot weather: Being able to take all your clothes off.
Worst thing about hot weather: Not being able to take all your clothes off.
Go figure. ☺
Quote from: MattJ on July 09, 2015, 01:18:06 PM
Best thing about hot weather: Being able to take all your clothes off.
Worst thing about hot weather: Not being able to take all your clothes off.
Go figure. ☺
'm completely with you! Fortunately I have a completely private rear garden --- and I'm retired!
In my case it's better to keep my clothes on it wouldn't be a pretty sight ,even I have to keep my eyes shut when I got nothing on.
Bob
I always reccon if people don't like it they needn't look, but if they want to look it's no skin off my nose!
Here in Lancashire as soon as the temperature gets above freezing folks get their legs on display :o :cold:
Sadly, I do not refer to the females of our species :(
Quote from: steve836 on July 09, 2015, 01:36:56 PM
Quote from: MattJ on July 09, 2015, 01:18:06 PM
Best thing about hot weather: Being able to take all your clothes off.
Worst thing about hot weather: Not being able to take all your clothes off.
Go figure. ☺
'm completely with you! Fortunately I have a completely private rear garden --- and I'm retired!
If only I had a garden... just a view of a motor mechanic's yard out of my back window! :(