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I spoke too soon! All dull and grey now and slowly being enveloped in spooky sea mist.  Not cold though. |
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« Reply #406 on: 13:47:19, 10-05-2008 » |
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Pesky treeroot now gone. Also, compost heap turned over. Now I am going to relax for a while before playing the (tuned yesterday) piano!  |
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« Reply #407 on: 14:02:09, 10-05-2008 » |
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Also, compost heap turned over. A mere 'also'?! A fitting and crowning achievement for the final day of International Compost Awareness Week 2008. (I'm not making this up : http://www.compostawarenessweek.org.uk/ includes a useful section on "Composting events in your area".) This reminds me that I do actually have a composting question. I'd better go over to the Garden Shed thread. |
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A pretty warm, although not particularly sunny, day for me at the cricket at Harborne today. It got a bit cooler towards the end of the match - I had to put a sweatshirt on - but it did finish well past 8pm! The game was drawn, in case anyone is interested. There were several deep rumbles of thunder from further north at one point during the afternoon but all we had were a few spots of rain. It did make me start to worry that I hadn't unplugged my modem - I didn't want to suffer the same fate as the missing Mort |
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« Reply #409 on: 10:27:14, 11-05-2008 » |
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Today's looking like another scorcher here on the Sarf Coast. Brighton is rather wonderful early on a Sunday morning: quiet and serene seascape, the only sounds the distant chinking of bottles being emptied into bins after the previous evening's exertions, and the gulls of course. But we can expect the same humungous hordes of daytrippers that PW mentioned yesterday - the A23 will be clogged with a tailback of several miles within an hour and the seafront will be heaving...
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and the seafront will be heaving ...
Gosh! While the sea itself stays still? I thought that was just a fictional Brighton in The Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy, one that you can only reach via an Infinite Improbability Drive. |
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« Reply #411 on: 10:54:54, 11-05-2008 » |
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Beautiful day here and we too will be packed with weekend visitors - well not us personally you understand.....  The tide is out at the moment and it's a bit misty out there but the sea does look a nice blue colour. This all bodes well for a gorgeous Sunday. |
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Not too much danger of hordes descending on the East Coast today: well, certainly not in the direction of "The Brighton of the North" (as Carnoustie was formerly - though possibly optimistically - styled). Cloudy and cool at present.
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« Reply #413 on: 13:40:10, 11-05-2008 » |
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Och aye Ron - I did happen to notice whilst in town this morning that the majority of our hordes seem to have appeared from your neck of the woods. |
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« Reply #414 on: 13:49:31, 11-05-2008 » |
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Yeah, really great weather for grass cutting and shrub trimming I have completed these chores to her satisfaction so my wife is now ensconced on the sun lounger complete with positioned parasol to enable reading. I've showered and will join her now until the football at 3.00pm so I'll miss the best of the sun |
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« Reply #415 on: 13:57:26, 11-05-2008 » |
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They're probably from the West Coast, rather than our neck of the woods, Mills: the distrust and rivalry's rather similar to that between the Red and White Rose counties further south on the same coasts....
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« Reply #416 on: 14:19:44, 11-05-2008 » |
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"The Brighton of the North" (as Carnoustie was formerly - though possibly optimistically - styled).
It is probably an unforgivable ethnic stereotype on my part, but I have difficulty in imagining a Scots version of the Royal Pavilion. Do correct me, please. (And growing up in an area which called itself The English Riviera, I realise the force of your "optimistically".) |
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« Reply #417 on: 14:38:27, 11-05-2008 » |
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Today's looking like another scorcher here on the Sarf Coast. Brighton is rather wonderful early on a Sunday morning: quiet and serene seascape, the only sounds the distant chinking of bottles being emptied into bins after the previous evening's exertions, and the gulls of course. But we can expect the same humungous hordes of daytrippers that PW mentioned yesterday - the A23 will be clogged with a tailback of several miles within an hour and the seafront will be heaving...
Oh yes. Having dropped the sprog into town earlier for the final rehearsal of this afternoon's Taverner-fest I came out of town against the stationary queue of happy-looking, joyous drivers eagerly anticipating their day by the sea ..... |
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They're probably from the West Coast, rather than our neck of the woods, Mills: the distrust and rivalry's rather similar to that between the Red and White Rose counties further south on the same coasts....
Wherever they're from they're well-nigh unintelligible.  We have a Continental Market in our local square and I found it easier to understand the French! I think we've been invaded. This last few weeks I've had 3 workmen in - totally unconnected with each other and they were all Scotsmen. They understood each other very well but didn't seem particularly friendly to each other. I didn't hang around to ask questions about it...... |
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"The Brighton of the North" (as Carnoustie was formerly - though possibly optimistically - styled).
It is probably an unforgivable ethnic stereotype on my part, but I have difficulty in imagining a Scots version of the Royal Pavilion. Do correct me, please. (And growing up in an area which called itself The English Riviera, I realise the force of your "optimistically".) Don B: http://www.angus.gov.uk/history/features/featcarn.htm |
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