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Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 14:18
by Gromit
Horrendous here in mid Lincs, Dave - deep standing water on the A17 near Sleaford. As usual though, people driving around like it's a sunny day. :roll:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 16:05
by Gill the Piano
Pouring. No! Sunny! No, pouring again. Now it's stopped...sleet!

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 22:07
by gizzy
"Well I feel like Buddy Holly 'cause it's Raining In My Heart
All the sad songs take me back to you now that we are apart." (Mike Batt)

Gizzy in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 26 Apr 2012, 18:35
by Gill the Piano
Pimply sissing down here...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 26 Apr 2012, 19:14
by OneHandOnly
Just cooled down to a more manageable 21c but it is 8pm.The only water i hear or see is the lovely fountains and the waves lapping the beach 8) .
Missing my kawai but not the rain :lol:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 09:30
by Nutroast
OHO, thanks for sending me to dreamland!

We've got ponds where we've never had ponds before. The river's burst its banks and flooded what its supposed to flood.... drum roll.... the flood plain. I saw an egret there while walking the pooch yesterday.

We have four 1500 litre water tanks that were nearly empty that are now full again, so free water for the polytunnel. The leeks are thriving, the wheat is growing fast but I think the spuds have rotted, we haven't got a single one. Win some lose some I suppose.

I'm desperate to feel warm again! No wonder the swallows are staying away.

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 15:49
by gizzy
It's absolutely PERSISTING down here in Cambridge. I've just sent a poor little boy out in it to cycle home while I sit here in my slippers to feel warm. Wallowing in guilt :(

Gizzy in a very wet Cherry Hinton

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 11:10
by Blodwen
Shocking in Swansea, belting down with strong winds!! Ah well! A day in cleaning and ironing for me lol!

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 11:28
by Feg
gizzy wrote:It's absolutely PERSISTING down here in Cambridge. I've just sent a poor little boy out in it to cycle home while I sit here in my slippers to feel warm. Wallowing in guilt :(

Gizzy in a very wet Cherry Hinton
I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hinton :)

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 11:58
by gizzy
Feg wrote: I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hinton :)
Really? I wonder if it's the one I have or had. My last tuner died on me (well, not exactly "on" me :lol: that would have been a really peculiar session!) and I had a letter from the local music shop on the morning of the day I was about to ring him to come and do it again (tune the piano, not die... :roll: stop it, Giz!) and they sent someone else who had been his work partner for years. The one who died was called Kim Norton, lovely guy - not him, then?

If it's someone else, could you PM me with the name? as I always like to keep my options open

And for about the twelfth day in succession it's pouring out there. Very dispiriting. Shall have to make jokes or something

Gizzy in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 20:45
by gizzy
Weather forecast says sunny tomorrow. And unrelenting rain on Tuesday.
I'm beginning to think I can't take much more of this :(

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 16:45
by Gill the Piano
Been sunshiny all day today; I had to use my sunglasses as I wasn't used to it!

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 01 May 2012, 00:03
by gizzy
Thunderstorm and heavy rain here, started around 11pm

Feel like it's raining inside and outside of me right at the moment :cry:

Gizzy in a sodden Cherry Hinton

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 01 May 2012, 13:12
by gizzy
Rained all morning here AGAIN.
I wonder if it's really happening or if it's just all round me. Missing somebody dreadfully (gone to earth again) :cry: Pass along please, nothing to see.

Gizzy in Cambridge, just getting on with it

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 01 May 2012, 20:17
by Gill the Piano
Still naffing down in the Thames valley - Long Suffering Eric says he's going brown with rust, not suntan. Still, he bogs off to Greece soon to burn his bits; that'll cheer him up...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 01 May 2012, 20:51
by gizzy
Gill the Piano wrote: Long Suffering Eric
Amazing how much difference a hyphen or lack of same can make (but I guess you meant it!)
Thaks, Gill, you've cheered me up somewhat :lol:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 02 May 2012, 15:47
by Gill the Piano
With or without a hyphen; it's all true! :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 02 May 2012, 22:14
by gizzy
Raining in Cherry Hinton. <yawn> :roll:

Gizzy in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 May 2012, 14:46
by gizzy
Cambridge 2:45pm

Give you one guess. Out to paddle to the polling station and post my TG exam entries

Gizzy in Cambr....glug glug glug :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 May 2012, 15:30
by Feg
Sshhhhhh..........we have glorious sunshine.........

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 May 2012, 21:52
by gizzy
It is are not raining here also (at long last)

5 day forecast says a little soupcon on Friday night and then all Monday afternoon

Eeyore in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 05 May 2012, 11:01
by gizzy
SUNSHINE! :) :) :) :) :)

Gizzy in Cambridge
The sinking feeling I have today is only on account of my office chair having a weak hydraulic link somewhere which means every so often I start descending an inch at a time till I'm a foot lower. Causes great hilarity in piano lessons and a crick in the neck when I'm trying to read the monitor

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 05 May 2012, 19:16
by Gill the Piano
Easier to find the notes when they're at eye level, innit? :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 05 May 2012, 21:03
by gizzy
Gill the Piano wrote:Easier to find the notes when they're at eye level, innit? :D
But then my hands would be around the level of my chin.

When my eyesight, which is ****** at best, was at its worst, I couldn't tell sharps and flats from fingerings in some light unless I really leaned forwards. And that casued problems. You see, like most women, I have a chest. And in order to see the notes, my chest was resting on my hands and I couldn't move them :lol:

Gizzy in (picks up magnifying glass) Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 May 2012, 13:39
by Gill the Piano
Lucky you didn't play the piano accordion then. I fail to see how any (real) woman could play one without dreadful injury...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 May 2012, 14:15
by gizzy
My dad used to play one of those upside down

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 May 2012, 20:37
by Gill the Piano
Australian, was he?

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 May 2012, 20:45
by gizzy
He'd never mentioned being. He was left-handed, though.

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 07 May 2012, 16:33
by Gill the Piano
Ah well, that'd do it...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 07 May 2012, 19:10
by gizzy
It certainly helped when he fell downstairs in the middle of the night when I was 10 and broke his right arm rather noisily (landed on flagstones, eek :o ). At the time he was the organist of St John's in Glastonbury (4 manual instrument) and although obviously he missed one week, the next Sunday he was back at the organ playing with one hand, two feet and loads of couplers.

It's been raining again

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 08 May 2012, 16:54
by Gill the Piano
I can't do the feet; not because of problems with the schizophrenic aspect of splitting brain between hands/feet, but because I get out of breath!

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 08 May 2012, 18:12
by gizzy
I never really managed the feet either, and used the excuse that I was too short to reach the pedals properly, but I do know some quite young kids can do it and some short adults. I think it was mainly practice. Lack of. I think I played Jerusalem once with pedals, and I could manage the Twister-like legato fingering. I haven't played an organ in chirch for years now, though.

Bright and sunny in Cherry Hinton today :D

Gizzy in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 09 May 2012, 16:35
by Gill the Piano
I've got to play Jerusalem on Saturday for a wedding. I may need class A drugs for it...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 09 May 2012, 17:59
by gizzy
Gill the Piano wrote:I've got to play Jerusalem on Saturday for a wedding. I may need class A drugs for it...
"I shall not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand"
:twisted:
Very appropriate :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 10 May 2012, 17:42
by Gill the Piano
It's a funny old do; it's at 6pm! I spose I ought to charge overtime, but it's only a blessing. If I play fast it'll all be over in 20 minutes... :twisted:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 14 May 2012, 18:45
by gizzy
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with R

again

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 14 May 2012, 22:10
by Gill the Piano
Rhinitis? Retina? Raffle ticket? Rasputin? Ragbag? Rent book? Armpit?
Give up...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 15 May 2012, 23:31
by gizzy
Gill the Piano wrote:Rhinitis? Retina? Raffle ticket? Rasputin? Ragbag? Rent book? Armpit?
Give up...
Rumplestiltskin...

Thunder and hailstones at 2.30 this afternoon. Five day forecast says dry dry dry dry and dry. Sunny by day and moony by night. (Just about sums me up) :)

Gizzy in Cambridge, only just finished writing up me lesson notes at 11.30 pm

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 22 May 2012, 17:58
by Gill the Piano
Well it's boiling here now.
Gill, under a rock until it gets dark...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 Jun 2012, 10:48
by gizzy
SIXTY YEARS OF REIGN!!!
:D :D :D :D :D
I was in THE London (as my daughter who works there proudly calls it) yesterday on the south bank. The Eye was all decked out in its red white and blue lights at night. Looked great.

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 Jun 2012, 20:08
by Gill the Piano
We've just been to a sub aqua barbecue. Interesting...

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 03 Jun 2012, 21:57
by gizzy
Wasn't it difficult to light? :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 04 Jun 2012, 18:00
by Gill the Piano
We (sensibly) decamped straight to the warm, dry kitchen. I've never seen the point of barbecues anyway; I can do meat with charred outsides and raw innards without dragging everything into the garden to do it. I often wonder why these affairs are conducted a matter of feet from a fully-functioning kitchen.

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 04 Jun 2012, 20:09
by gizzy
I think it's a Man Thng :lol:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 05 Jun 2012, 23:42
by robjohnson
Haha, a man thing having to do with the weather? Yeah sure thing it is.

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 Jun 2012, 17:09
by Gill the Piano
No, a Man Thing about playing with fire! :lol: We have a real fire and whenever men come round they always want to put a log on/poke the fire (NOT a euphemism)/ put some coal on.
My mum always said if you played with fire you'd wet the bed...!

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 06 Jun 2012, 23:23
by gizzy
Gill the Piano wrote: My mum always said if you played with fire you'd wet the bed...!
Now, I hadn't heard that one.
Daughter#1 went through a pyromaniac phase. She was the one who used to wet the bed (a bit) when she and her sister were in bunks. Being the bigger one, she was in the top bunk. And the answer is yes :wink: poor little #2 frequently woke up under a slightly damp and smelly duvet.

However, I think the playing-with-matches phase (once she managed to melt a big hole in an acrylic carpet) was when she was about 10, which would have been a good 6-7 years later. It was probably a step on to her first career in analytical chemistry. So maybe it worked the other way round with her.

Gizzy in Cambridge

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 07 Jul 2012, 10:59
by gizzy
All is revealed. All these floods and torrential rain are caused by gay people

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... shops.html#

It was in the paper, so it has to be true :D

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 07 Jul 2012, 17:18
by Gill the Piano
More likely to be bankers and politicians if you ask me - they've done far more to enrage God! And me, come to that... :shock:

Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

Posted: 07 Jun 2014, 12:24
by dave brum
Dull, dull, dull again in England's wet and sodden land. Yet another fortnight's worth of rain in one morning. But thankfully not cold!