BBQ & summer heatwave chat 2012

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Channel Hopper said:
Don't forget, tomorrow you could wake up dead.

Blues singer's headstone? 'Didn't wake up this morning'
 

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Tivù said:
Climate change - a process that goes on despite the efforts of Man!

Ah! But, what's the effect of all these wind turbines disrupting wind patterns?
 

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pgh13 said:
Ah! But, what's the effect of all these wind turbines disrupting wind patterns?




Nobbut sleepless nights :-flash
 

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pgh13 said:
Ah! But, what's the effect of all these wind turbines disrupting wind patterns?

I think jet-propelled aircraft are pushing air about in a more disruptive pattern... :-rofl2
 

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25 plus years ago peeps in Warrington reckoned that the building of Fiddlers Ferry power station had affected the local weather and then, as if to bear this out, a cooling tower collapsed in high winds. I remember 10 years or so ago driving around the N circular past the ex Unisys buildings (two buildings arranged in a )( formation - a pretty good venturi, and thinking; 'What F___wit designed that?'
 

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No more than a few spots of rain here today.. Its dank & misty out but thats about all.
 

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Chucking it down here tonight. No disruptive wind patterns either, but have recently restocked my cache of baked beans so expecting wind patterns to change dramatically with a subsequent increase in global warming due to methane production and additionally the first of this years crop of peasants being burnt to ensure they conform to NF calorific standard values. (Currently one peasant = 2.34 KW)
 

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Considering a sample of one event, it's always chucking it down at your gaff, Pete!
 

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2cvbloke said:
How could you wake up dead when the dead never wake up? :confused

[video=youtube;DCUh5liPkK8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUh5liPkK8[/video]
 

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The who with the what now??? :confused
 

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Looks as though the weekend will be a complete washout.
 

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Just like any other weekend this year.
 

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Tivù said:
Considering a sample of one event, it's always chucking it down at your gaff, Pete!

No, there's at least one day a year it doesn't rain......

(sorry, had a bit of post catching up to do)
 

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Certainly is a warm 'un today, managed to strim the weed bed that we call a lawn out the front, and found the 12mm socket bit I dropped from the ladders while putting up my Z2 minidish some weeks ago, also found that the Flymo Mini-Trim is useless against big, almost woody weeds (I don't know the name of the stuff, looks like celery but the stems form a hollow tube), it eats the cheap plastic "wires" in no time, might have to rig something up with a bit of solid-core telephone wire or something, just to give it some balls... O-Ha

But I am so glad I bought me a desk fan on Sunday though (oh yeah, forgot to mention I won £95 on Saturday's lottery, which pleased me no end!! :D ), I've got it sat ontop of the stack of boxes in the corner of my bedroom and it's working a treat, shame the humid air makes it feel like I'm being blown with warm custard though... :confused

Oh, and if anyone's thinking of buying those Fridgemaster brand fans from Currys, buy some 3-in-1 oil too cos they forgot to lube the sleeve bearings in the motors, which I had to do with mine cos on slow speed it was like it was trying to stir treacle, but after oiling, it works beautifully, at least, for a cheap PRC-made fan... O-Ha
 

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2cvbloke said:
the humid air makes it feel like I'm being blown with warm custard though...

Can you keep your fantasies to yourself please?.......:)
 

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That'd be a great trick if you could pull it off.
 

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...any chance you could send some sunshine up this way ??
Getting a bit sick of the weatherman on the beeb grinning inanely as he tells us OOp North how glorious it is Darn Saaarf...
Yea its warm 'n a bit humid ...and for a change it ain't raining ..but in need of a fan ..
or a sunshade ..that'll be the day..
Cloudy almost dark this morning ..stifling and slightly sticky without the benefit of Sol peeping between the thick cloud most of the afternoon..
Chances are we'll go staight to thunderstorm by the end of the week ...without ever needing sunglasses..

..I'll take it back ...we did see a yellow ball in the sky for a large part of Sunday..
..Summer over in one day ??...
cest la vie
 

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The weather in Krakow is lovely atm - spent the last 2 days wandering around in shorts & a tshirt. Back to dear old Blighty later in the week, and Im assured its grey & drizzling at home :(
 

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Got my nose burnt in Belgium





(got my ears burnt when I returned)
 

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