What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?
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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. 

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Pouring. No! Sunny! No, pouring again. Now it's stopped...sleet!
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"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
All the sad songs take me back to you now that we are apart." (Mike Batt)
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Pimply sissing down here...
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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
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Missing my kawai but not the rain

Missing my kawai but not the rain

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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.
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.
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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

Gizzy in a very wet Cherry Hinton
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Shocking in Swansea, belting down with strong winds!! Ah well! A day in cleaning and ironing for me lol!
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I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hintongizzy 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

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Really? I wonder if it's the one I have or had. My last tuner died on me (well, not exactly "on" meFeg wrote: I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hinton


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
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Weather forecast says sunny tomorrow. And unrelenting rain on Tuesday.
I'm beginning to think I can't take much more of this
I'm beginning to think I can't take much more of this

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Been sunshiny all day today; I had to use my sunglasses as I wasn't used to it!
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Thunderstorm and heavy rain here, started around 11pm
Feel like it's raining inside and outside of me right at the moment
Gizzy in a sodden Cherry Hinton
Feel like it's raining inside and outside of me right at the moment

Gizzy in a sodden Cherry Hinton
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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)
Pass along please, nothing to see.
Gizzy in Cambridge, just getting on with it
I wonder if it's really happening or if it's just all round me. Missing somebody dreadfully (gone to earth again)

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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...
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Amazing how much difference a hyphen or lack of same can make (but I guess you meant it!)Gill the Piano wrote: Long Suffering Eric
Thaks, Gill, you've cheered me up somewhat

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With or without a hyphen; it's all true! 

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Raining in Cherry Hinton. <yawn> 
Gizzy in Cambridge

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

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Sshhhhhh..........we have glorious sunshine.........
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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
5 day forecast says a little soupcon on Friday night and then all Monday afternoon
Eeyore in Cambridge
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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





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
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Easier to find the notes when they're at eye level, innit? 

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But then my hands would be around the level of my chin.Gill the Piano wrote:Easier to find the notes when they're at eye level, innit?
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

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Lucky you didn't play the piano accordion then. I fail to see how any (real) woman could play one without dreadful injury...
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My dad used to play one of those upside down
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He'd never mentioned being. He was left-handed, though.
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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
). 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

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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!
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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
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Bright and sunny in Cherry Hinton today

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I've got to play Jerusalem on Saturday for a wedding. I may need class A drugs for it...
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"I shall not cease from mental fight,Gill the Piano wrote:I've got to play Jerusalem on Saturday for a wedding. I may need class A drugs for it...
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand"

Very appropriate

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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... 

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I spy with my little eye, something beginning with R
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Rhinitis? Retina? Raffle ticket? Rasputin? Ragbag? Rent book? Armpit?
Give up...
Give up...
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Rumplestiltskin...Gill the Piano wrote:Rhinitis? Retina? Raffle ticket? Rasputin? Ragbag? Rent book? Armpit?
Give up...
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)

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Well it's boiling here now.
Gill, under a rock until it gets dark...
Gill, under a rock until it gets dark...
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SIXTY YEARS OF REIGN!!!
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.





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.
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We've just been to a sub aqua barbecue. Interesting...
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Wasn't it difficult to light? 

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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.
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I think it's a Man Thng 

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Haha, a man thing having to do with the weather? Yeah sure thing it is.
There used to be a time and a half.
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No, a Man Thing about playing with fire!
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...!

My mum always said if you played with fire you'd wet the bed...!
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Now, I hadn't heard that one.Gill the Piano wrote: My mum always said if you played with fire you'd wet the bed...!
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

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.
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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
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... shops.html#
It was in the paper, so it has to be true

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More likely to be bankers and politicians if you ask me - they've done far more to enrage God! And me, come to that... 

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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!
The world's unluckiest piano learner, quite possibly.
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