What's the weather doing where you are?

[GROWLER]

Oh my head

We are surrounded by the self implicted misery of whimpering mice.  
They all need to try getting out into the REAL werld and countryside a bit more.

[GROWLER]

I can't see any blue sky from here.

Use your imagination man!

There's always blue sky over the pub.

There was no blue sky where I've been today.
 Just fog, lashings of rain all day long, hurricanes (nearly) mud, mud and more mud, sheer 500ft drops with no fencing, deep forests, oodles of coffee and butties, super company, loads of laughs and tit freezing temperatures, and do you know summat, it was GREAT!

  Excellent!  

I KNEW you'd appreciate my post.
I bet you could almost smell the hot mud, baking on the exhaust, and the fine aromour of rotting damp wood. leaves. and pine trees, gently wafting in through the car.
Absolute heaven, and no 'after bash' headaches here.  
Someone who understands 'enjoyment' other than just what solely comes out of a botttle or can.

You'd have been in your element yesterday BM.  

[Miss Demeanour]

Yesterday appears to have been awfully quiet  .....we are all accounted for aren't we ? - no one has been washed away  ?

You could take the register each morning! 

Here Miss!

Glad to hear it ....why are you late tho 

[Miss Demeanour]

Someone who understands 'enjoyment' other than just what solely comes out of a botttle or can.

You'd have been in your element yesterday BM.  

 

Bear - has your perception of reality been that warped lately 

[GROWLER]

Someone who understands 'enjoyment' other than just what solely comes out of a botttle or can.

You'd have been in your element yesterday BM.  

 

Bear - has your perception of reality been that warped lately 

No. Why?
BM luvs off roading and appreciates some of the finer things in life like me.

Hear you are BM, a little clip of 'White Stones' that was taken a couiple of weeks ago by one of the members of our group when the weather wasn't so bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9QdNU61hQ

Christ on a bike, it was wonderfully wild up there yesterday. The rain came down in massive swooping sheets, and looked just like fog it was that heavy. 

I appreciate you can't really 'feel' the enjoyment from it, and that this is literally only a few feet of this particular route. I'll pst some piccies later p'raps....not of me mind.
There IS more to life than getting bladdered you know.

[Miss Demeanour]

I know Bear ...there's shopping and watching I was a celebrity leave me in the jungle 

Just to complete your stereotyping of me like     

[GROWLER]

On the weather forecast last night, they stated that there would be a respite in this constant and never ending deluge, and today would generally be a dry day with a bit of sunshine. at last.

It's grey dismal and pissing down here...AGAIN. 

Tomorrow doesn't bode well either. They've promised more 'lashings of', so it'll possibly be.....   crackin' the flags?   

[Miss Demeanour]

I think southerners will bear the brunt today ...but we can't complain after recent events 

[GROWLER]

I think southerners will bear the brunt today ...but we can't complain after recent events 

I know, it's absolutely devastating up there. I do really feel for them, all those business's that are now completely goosed, and at their busiest time too.
90 mile trip instead of 2 to get to werk!!! 

Did you see that poor lad who's had all his 'A' level course work destroyed by the floods. Totally mind numbing.

I'm supposed to be off up there a week Thursday. It may be cancelled now, but that is just a mere inconvience tbh. Phone calls later this week will confirm or otherwise.

[Miss Demeanour]

And once the media spotlight is off that area I hope that the commitments to reconstruct these bridges and those insurance companies who are  pledging to rebuild or assist in the recovery of homes and businesses  all do so promptly and are all not held up by bureaucratic nonsense  - but I have to say you have little faith in this.

There was someone on the news  this morning who had decided they were not going to get insurance this year as they needed to save the money and effectively keep their business going  - they have lost absolutely everything 

[Barman]

As you say, once the media-fest is over it will all be forgotten.... 

Thanks for the vid Growler - will be out in he Pajero this winter - I'll see if I can get some pictures for you...

Been out on my motorbike today tho...

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

And once the media spotlight is off that area I hope that the commitments to reconstruct these bridges and those insurance companies who are  pledging to rebuild or assist in the recovery of homes and businesses  all do so promptly and are all not held up by bureaucratic nonsense  - but I have to say you have little faith in this.

There was someone on the news  this morning who had decided they were not going to get insurance this year as they needed to save the money and effectively keep their business going  - they have lost absolutely everything 

However Gordon has been up there and has spoken to some of the people affected, shaking his head and putting on his sincere face,which makes it almost OK Charles and Cammila will be up there soon soothing the people. I am lucky and have not been affected by this but if I were the last thing that I would want is any of them rocking up.

[Miss Demeanour]

Maybe they could offer one of their many homes and estates as a designated refuge centre 

[Pastis]

Horizontal rain 

Blues skies 

Horizontal rain 

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Horizontal rain 

Blues skies 

 

[Nick]

Sunnio in Milton Keynes