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O, To Be In England...

Floyd1 said:
Could be worse
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The most significant June snowfall in recent memory was on 2 June 1975, when snow fell in many parts of the country. The Essex and Kent cricket match in Colchester was interrupted, while the match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton was called off after 2.5cm (1in) of snow settled on the outfield.
 
Trevp666 said:
The most significant June snowfall in recent memory was on 2 June 1975, when snow fell in many parts of the country. The Essex and Kent cricket match in Colchester was interrupted, while the match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton was called off after 2.5cm (1in) of snow settled on the outfield.
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Buxton. No surprise there.
 
Trevp666 said:
For Catseye there is also the issue of 'inappropriately sized rucksack'.
(That and an increasingly obvious obsession with tea and hobnobs)
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It begs the question is it really the biscuits she* speaks of or some strange band of people that follow her* around or some sinister something or other.

*apologies if you are not the said gender.
 
Shady said:
*apologies if you are not the said gender.
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Seeing as Catseye includes 'Old lady trouser-smell' in their description I would tend to lean towards them being a person of the female persuasion.
 
Trevp666 said:
Seeing as Catseye includes 'Old lady trouser-smell' in their description I would tend to lean towards them being a person of the female persuasion.
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At the moment I smell of The Tragedy of Lord George*. Doesn't mean I'm a chap, or called George :curt:




* warm, spicy, woody, vanilla!
 
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Floyd1 said:
Exactly. I want a climate where it's perfectly comfortable to be able to wear T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops all year round and on any occasion; weddings/funerals/job interviews.... That's Israel/Southern California/ Hawaii and Tahiti for starters.
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Only trouble with California is those darn earthquakes -
I knew someone who had to travel from NJ clear out to California several times a year to service machinery and equipment in the San Francisco area. How he dreaded it, every single time he was there he would wake up with the bed traveling across the room from earth tremors.
He said the people living there were used to it. After a few years, he refused to ever go back.
 
Trevp666 said:
The most significant June snowfall in recent memory was on 2 June 1975, when snow fell in many parts of the country. The Essex and Kent cricket match in Colchester was interrupted, while the match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton was called off after 2.5cm (1in) of snow settled on the outfield.
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I remember that, my father had just turned the hay (to dry the underneath) and ... snow (Bucks).
 
Trevp666 said:
I don't think that by any stretch of the imagination you could call a beach hut in Sheringham a 'fancy beachside property'.
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My favourite 'fun' fact about Sheringham is how Gun Alley later got it's name. As I was told, in the olden days, there used to a wall down there with a brick that could be slid in and out which concealed a gun. Only select locals knew about it and it was used to shoot anyone coming to Sheringham trying to exploit the people. It's "Wel-um t'Norfolk and stop yer troshin boy!."
 
We had a slight 'quake' in NJ several years back, I had never felt one before.
It was the middle of the day, and the room started to sway from side to side and didn't stop - I screamed in panic and ran out the door. Several of my neighbors were outside also, it passed in less than a minute with no consequences, not pleasant. Lol
 
Apparently we get quite a lot of 'quakes here in England but they are mostly too small to bother reporting on, they certainly don't register on the USGS site.
Probably once or twice a year we might get one somewhere that makes someone think a large vehicle is driving past, or makes the glasses rattle in the sideboard.
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
We had a slight 'quake' in NJ several years back, I had never felt one before.
It was the middle of the day, and the room started to sway from side to side and didn't stop - I screamed in panic and ran out the door. Several of my neighbors were outside also, it passed in less than a minute with no consequences, not pleasant. Lol
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I experienced one in Egypt in November '95 that measured 7.3 and it was fantastic! (But there weren't any high buildings there then). The aftershocks were great too.
 
Trevp666 said:
Apparently we get quite a lot of 'quakes here in England but they are mostly too small to bother reporting on, they certainly don't register on the USGS site.
Probably once or twice a year we might get one somewhere that makes someone think a large vehicle is driving past, or makes the glasses rattle in the sideboard.
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l experienced one in our old house in the Noughties. l was awake uncharacteristically late - 0200hrs? - and on the Interclown.

I likened the experience to somebody having suddenly, silently and simultaneously closed every door in the house: more of an instant pressure wave than a tremor or vibration. A small stuffed toy fell off a shelf. That was it.

l don’t know what those people in Japan have to complain about.

:rolleyes:

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
l experienced one in our old house in the Noughties. l was awake uncharacteristically late - 0200hrs? - and on the Interclown.

I likened the experience to somebody having suddenly, silently and simultaneously closed every door in the house: more of an instant pressure wave than a tremor or vibration. A small stuffed toy fell off a shelf. That was it.

l don’t know what those people in Japan have to complain about.

:rolleyes:

maximus otter
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We had one in the early 2000s -quite a strange experience. It was early morning and just light, it woke me up and in my just woken state I thought my wife had been 'possessed' at first:) it didn't wake her but she was shaking and the wardrobe doors were rattling.
 
Trevp666 said:
Oh the humanity! How did you cope?
There should have been some sort of charity set up for donations to support you.
:bthumbup: :wink2:
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maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
more of an instant pressure wave than a tremor or vibration.

maximus otter
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Yes exactly that ! The house was still but what woke me from an afternoon nap was rhythmic pressure in my ears. And a sound of a morbidly obese man pirouetting in my attic.
 
Bad Bungle said:
...And a sound of a morbidly obese man pirouetting in my attic.
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Oddly, that's very close to the image that I conjured up when when describing my experience of the Manchester earthquake, back in 2002: I described it as sounding like a fat bloke had broken into my loft and was running across the roof joists.

I remember that I was watching the movie Casino at the time. Once I realised that fat burglars were probably not the cause, I did actually wonder if Sharon Stone had given me one of my turns.

Again.
 
Shady said:
It begs the question is it really the biscuits she* speaks of or some strange band of people that follow her* around or some sinister something or other.

*apologies if you are not the said gender.
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Any sensible and sane person carries their own weight in Hobnobs. For emergencies.
 
What kind of emergency is helped with hobnobs?
Apart from maybe a massive spillage of tea?
 
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