What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?

[dave brum]

Rain, almost persistent all morning. 6 degrees and cold. And really dull, I needed the car lights on just now

[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.

[dave brum]

Rain has stopped here now but it's still really November like outside.

[Gill the Piano]

Pouring. No! Sunny! No, pouring again. Now it's stopped...sleet!

[dave brum]

7.00 and it's STILL tipping it down here!

[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

[dave brum]

Its a bit brighter in the West Midlands but yet more prolonged showers are forecast for later. And its still really chilly and cold.

Afternoon update, the thermometer says 12 but as expected, the rains have come!

[Gill the Piano]

Pimply sissing down here...

[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 .
Missing my kawai but not the rain

[dave brum]

You're torturing us, OHO!!

It's STILL raining here. My back garden desperately needs a mow, but there's just not been a dry day on which to do it.

[dave brum]

Guess what it's doing here?? It was so dark this morning at 5.45 when I got up I needed the light on. This hasn't been the case for the past fortnight or so. Think I'm going to have to get my light box out of the cupboard with the Christmas decorations in...and I've just seen Sunday's forecast on BBC Weather, car to church again...

[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.

[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

[Blodwen]

Shocking in Swansea, belting down with strong winds!! Ah well! A day in cleaning and ironing for me lol!

[Feg]

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

[gizzy]

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 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... 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

[gizzy]

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

[Gill the Piano]

Been sunshiny all day today; I had to use my sunglasses as I wasn't used to it!

[gizzy]

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

[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) Pass along please, nothing to see.

Gizzy in Cambridge, just getting on with it

[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...

[gizzy]

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

[Gill the Piano]

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

[gizzy]

Raining in Cherry Hinton. <yawn>

Gizzy in Cambridge

[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

[Feg]

Sshhhhhh..........we have glorious sunshine.........

[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

[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

[Gill the Piano]

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

[gizzy]

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

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

Gizzy in (picks up magnifying glass) Cambridge

[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...

[gizzy]

My dad used to play one of those upside down

[Gill the Piano]

Australian, was he?

[gizzy]

He'd never mentioned being. He was left-handed, though.

[Gill the Piano]

Ah well, that'd do it...

[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 ). 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

[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!

[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

Gizzy in Cambridge

[Gill the Piano]

I've got to play Jerusalem on Saturday for a wedding. I may need class A drugs for it...

[gizzy]

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"

Very appropriate

[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...

[gizzy]

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with R

again

[Gill the Piano]

Rhinitis? Retina? Raffle ticket? Rasputin? Ragbag? Rent book? Armpit?
Give up...

[gizzy]

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

[Gill the Piano]

Well it's boiling here now.
Gill, under a rock until it gets dark...

[gizzy]

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.

[Gill the Piano]

We've just been to a sub aqua barbecue. Interesting...

[gizzy]

Wasn't it difficult to light?

[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.

[gizzy]

I think it's a Man Thng