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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14850 on: May 04, 2011, 05:21:37 AM »
We could have JOM's thought of the day like ..... rubschin:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14851 on: May 04, 2011, 05:31:55 AM »
Like that Rabbi Lionel Blue from R4? 

JOM's blue thoughts, now that would werk.  lol: lol: lol:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14852 on: May 04, 2011, 05:57:35 AM »
Sunny but a bit frosty. Must have been chilly last night.
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14853 on: May 04, 2011, 06:02:16 AM »
Quote from: Tipsy Gipsy on May 04, 2011, 05:31:55 AM
Like that Rabbi Lionel Blue from R4? 

JOM's blue thoughts, now that would werk.  lol: lol: lol:

Oi!
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14854 on: May 04, 2011, 06:51:18 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on May 04, 2011, 05:00:26 AM
Bright, one degree, frost  eeek: on the cars and grass, I'd stop under the duvet if I were you.

When I was a 16 year old apprenctice, Vinny use to say to me, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out". Now I'm sounding all old and not so sensible, just like he was


We have discussed this before but the "May is out" refers to the May Blossom not the month.

"May" is the Hawthorne and that normally blossoms during the month of May. The further south you are in the country the earlier it appears. There is very little out here, despite it being the "Hottest April since 1910 and one of the driest on record" according to the BBC Weatherman last night on the radio.
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14855 on: May 04, 2011, 06:59:50 AM »
From the local weather station:
Prestatyn
Clear
6°C
Current: Clear
Wind: S at 10 km/h
Humidity: 76%
Wed
Mostly Sunny
15° | 6°
Thu
Rain
15° | 8°
Fri
Rain
17° | 10°
Sat
Chance of Storm
16° | 8°


And Nick flies back today!
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14856 on: May 04, 2011, 08:14:02 AM »
All is as it should be then  lol:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14857 on: May 04, 2011, 08:29:22 AM »
Scorchio  evil:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14858 on: May 04, 2011, 08:39:07 AM »
Quote from: Nick on May 04, 2011, 08:29:22 AM
Scorchio  evil:

Well ~ A change is as good as a rest .... or so "they" say and at least you got to play with a Donkey, which is more than you would have done in Nottingham!
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14859 on: May 04, 2011, 09:34:38 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on May 04, 2011, 06:51:18 AM
Quote from: Just One More on May 04, 2011, 05:00:26 AM
Bright, one degree, frost  eeek: on the cars and grass, I'd stop under the duvet if I were you.

When I was a 16 year old apprenctice, Vinny use to say to me, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out". Now I'm sounding all old and not so sensible, just like he was


We have discussed this before but the "May is out" refers to the May Blossom not the month.

"May" is the Hawthorne and that normally blossoms during the month of May. The further south you are in the country the earlier it appears. There is very little out here, despite it being the "Hottest April since 1910 and one of the driest on record" according to the BBC Weatherman last night on the radio.

I have been really surprised by the hawthorn here. I first started seeing it in bloom three weeks ago in very sheltered spots it is now dripping from every tree  in the area including this frost pocket of a valley. cloud9:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14860 on: May 04, 2011, 09:44:09 AM »
Quote from: Miss Creant on May 04, 2011, 09:34:38 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on May 04, 2011, 06:51:18 AM
Quote from: Just One More on May 04, 2011, 05:00:26 AM
Bright, one degree, frost  eeek: on the cars and grass, I'd stop under the duvet if I were you.

When I was a 16 year old apprenctice, Vinny use to say to me, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out". Now I'm sounding all old and not so sensible, just like he was


We have discussed this before but the "May is out" refers to the May Blossom not the month.

"May" is the Hawthorne and that normally blossoms during the month of May. The further south you are in the country the earlier it appears. There is very little out here, despite it being the "Hottest April since 1910 and one of the driest on record" according to the BBC Weatherman last night on the radio.

I have been really surprised by the hawthorn here. I first started seeing it in bloom three weeks ago in very sheltered spots it is now dripping from every tree  in the area including this frost pocket of a valley. cloud9:

You can therefore cast a clout or two
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14861 on: May 04, 2011, 12:32:33 PM »
Whoo hoo this means that I can get me kit off like....Party001: Party001: Party001:

I shall trust you all not to laugh.

'Ne'er cast a clout till May be out' is an English proverb. The earliest citation is this version of the rhyme from Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732, although it probably existed in word-of-mouth form well before that:

"Leave not off a Clout Till May be out.

Meaning

Let's look first at the 'cast a clout' part. The word 'clout', although archaic, is straightforward. Since at least the early 15th century 'clout' has been used variously to mean 'a blow to the head', 'a clod of earth or (clotted) cream' or 'a fragment of cloth, or clothing'. It is the last of these that is meant in 'cast a clout'. This was spelled variously spelled as clowt, clowte, cloot, clute. Here's an early example, from the Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, circa 1485:

"He had not left an holle clowt, Wherwith to hyde hys body abowte."

So, 'ne'er cast a clout...' simply means 'never discard your [warm winter] clothing...'.
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14862 on: May 04, 2011, 12:39:07 PM »
 happ096

You're getting as bad as me for giving mini lectures!  redface:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14863 on: May 04, 2011, 04:46:25 PM »
I reckon you're both talking bollocks and Vinny made it up  lol:
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Re: What's the weather doing where you are?
« Reply #14864 on: May 04, 2011, 05:04:19 PM »
Quote from: Just One More on May 04, 2011, 04:46:25 PM
I reckon you're both talking bollocks and Vinny made it up  lol:

Quite so JOM
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