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...and of course some tastefully-arraigned broccoli
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« Reply #3451 on: 20:57:43, 08-02-2008 » |
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We need to have a sou'wester and a cragule(spellin)?
Cagoule.
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« Reply #3452 on: 21:02:05, 08-02-2008 » |
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Some years ago, I was doing a job that involved regular trips to Swansea - never seen a place like it for rain. Even the taxi drivers used to boast that it had the worst climate in Britain ....
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« Reply #3453 on: 21:14:05, 08-02-2008 » |
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I am going out on the happy thread to Marc Almond, Enchanted.
Orpheus in red velvet.
Sigh.
Swansea is not wetter than the rest of Wales btw
All Wales is wet, and we sell it to the Waste Midlands and Liverpool
And John Wright is now my friend!
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« Reply #3454 on: 00:05:07, 09-02-2008 » |
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Some years ago, I was doing a job that involved regular trips to Swansea - never seen a place like it for rain. Even the taxi drivers used to boast that it had the worst climate in Britain ....
Imagine how you would have ended up if you'd spet the first 18 years of your life living there...? (hence the diving suit) Is this why the word umbrella has two ls in it in very close proximity and have I been pronouncing that word wrongly all my life? Seriously, though - plenty of people claim the same for other parts of Wales and also for parts of Ireland. And indeed for a certain city in the north east of England that was invoked during a greeting on my first trip to Bergen many years ago that began with the words "welcome to Manchester" (Bergen is also notorious for its frequent rain, apparently). |
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« Reply #3455 on: 00:13:02, 09-02-2008 » |
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The Lake District's pretty wet too...wouldn't be all those lakes if it wasn't!
MJ of sunny South Manchester
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« Reply #3456 on: 08:40:34, 09-02-2008 » |
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Yes agreed MableJane. I love the LD. Scenery so stunning. Your not a Man Utd fan arre you by any chance!?!?!?!?
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« Reply #3457 on: 16:06:46, 09-02-2008 » |
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Your not a Man Utd fan arre you by any chance!?!?!?!?
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« Reply #3458 on: 16:09:05, 09-02-2008 » |
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Seriously, though - plenty of people claim the same for other parts of Wales and also for parts of Ireland. And indeed for a certain city in the north east of England that was invoked during a greeting on my first trip to Bergen many years ago that began with the words "welcome to Manchester" (Bergen is also notorious for its frequent rain, apparently).
Manchester isn't in the North-East of England, Alistair!?! A friend of mine is the piccolist of the Bergen Philharmonic. |
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« Reply #3460 on: 17:20:22, 09-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #3461 on: 17:22:48, 09-02-2008 » |
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Marty, Marty, Marty, Why so Oh Oh?? You being half-Welsh I thought you would be rejoicing?
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« Reply #3462 on: 18:00:29, 09-02-2008 » |
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Seriously, though - plenty of people claim the same for other parts of Wales and also for parts of Ireland. And indeed for a certain city in the north east of England that was invoked during a greeting on my first trip to Bergen many years ago that began with the words "welcome to Manchester" (Bergen is also notorious for its frequent rain, apparently).
Manchester isn't in the North-East of England, Alistair!?! Mon Dieu! Of course I know that it isn't! I really must make sure that I'm fully awake when I post! That gaffe of mine is almost as bad as the one that I remember (though I've now completely forgotten its circumstantial context) from many years ago when, on the Radio 4 1.00 p.m. news, an item referred to an event (it might have been a serious fire, or something), occurring in "the Scottish capital" when in fact it was happening in Glasgow; you may well imagine how the BBC switchboard was immediately jammed with protests from all the Disgusted, Tomintouls in my country (this was in the days well pre-James Naughtie, of course)... Apologies to any and all offended Mancunians (and I hope that Mark Elder doesn't read this board...). That must have been one of my worst ever... A friend of mine is the piccolist of the Bergen Philharmonic.
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« Reply #3463 on: 19:19:44, 09-02-2008 » |
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Some snowdrops I took this afternoon. It was a lovely day, far too nice to sit inside and watch the 6 Nations.
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« Reply #3464 on: 19:49:26, 09-02-2008 » |
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Some snowdrops I took this afternoon. It was a lovely day, far too nice to sit inside and watch the 6 Nations.
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