While checking the 3 weather sites I use every morning to see what the conditions are like here in Cornwall and other regions of Gran Britannia, I noticed a snowflake (or 2) up in Iffy country ... www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/yh/topcliffe_latest_weather.html
Woe, woe, and thrice woe to those without winter tyres in the coming ice age!
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You check three websites to check the weather in Cornwall - ever tried looking out of the window?
Thanks for the snowflake info, I'm not at the caravan until later in the week, but nothing about the weather there surprises me any more.
Makes a change from the rain.
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You're not going to believe this but ... my friend Lauri Smith the leather craftsman (and recluse) who lived in an isolated cottage up on Bodmin Moor, used to put sheets of 2" (50mm) polystyrene up all his windows during what he called 'The Black Season', they were his version of double glazing!
Easterlies up in the NE Iffy, not for long though.
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I wear my woolly hat in the house/caravan when it's cold, it's like having an extra cardy on, but without the extra bulk.
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Lauri Smith always wore his woolly hat this time of the year, I'll have to dig out some old pics :)
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Farmers I knew wore a flat cap all year.
Not sure why in the summer, maybe to keep the dust out of the barnet.
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>> Farmers I knew wore a flat cap all year.
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Most of 'em I go to are as bald as a coot underneath the cap, so it's more likely to stop the sun's reflection scaring the sheep round here!
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...Most of 'em I go to are as bald as a coot underneath the cap...
I recall this being discussed at the time.
The view was the baldness was caused by constant cap wearing, but the farmers did it all the same.
As a lad, your first cap was regarded almost as a rite of passage.
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"extra cardy" ?
Instead of looking like a character out of Last of the Summer Wine I suggest you visit your local outdoor gear shop and buy a decent fleece top. Far warmer, lighter and more comfortable.
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Dog I hopped over to Google and wondered if this your mate Lauri Smith?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUoWdP_ipOc
(about 1min in)
Some nice furniture and old clocks.
Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 12 Oct 11 at 10:45
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Fleece gilets are ideal ...
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>>Dog I hopped over to Google and wondered if this your mate Lauri Smith?<<
Sure is XFL - someone in the village (Millpool) nicked his old clocks while he was in hospital dying from cancer,
I have happy mammaries of my time spent in that cottage, it was bought by a local builder family who have transformed the place, which was once a range (MOD) wardens lodge.
g.co/maps/93x8r
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What a great character to have known. There are/were some left in the fen but they are dying off fast. Nothing like a craftsman. We have a range of riding/hunting crops/whips plus some walking sticks made by a similar local man... all leather, cord whipping, silver mounts and bone handle type of construction.
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Lauri learnt leather craft from a safe cracker called Algie while doing 10 years in Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario,
for bank robbery, he was deported back to blighty after doing 5 years, his Father was a saddler but he died (WW1)
when Lauri was just 3 years old.
We all still miss ole Lauri - what tales he had to tell :)
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No need for a hat around here today - dry, warm (18 degrees) and sunnyish - just been to shops on the bike, perfect weather, hardly the Long Way Round I know.
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I bet you don't look as good in leathers as Charlie Boorman either:)
Pat
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Possibly - but I'm more handsome. :-0
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Fleeces, cardys, caps, woolly hats?
Dear Lord...There's no hope is there?
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>> Fleeces, cardys, caps, woolly hats?
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>> Dear Lord...There's no hope is there?
I like to travel in a weskit (gilet?) similar to this goo.gl/zChax that I call the coat of many pockets. I find it the perfect complement to the trousers of many pockets.
Mrs Dugong really doesn't like it. At all. But as I never tire of pointing out, they're so useful!
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>> I like to travel in a weskit (gilet?) similar to this goo.gl/zChax that I call
>> the coat of many pockets. I find it the perfect complement to the trousers of
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My Rohan Essential top serves a similar function. Just enough to keep the chill off and pockets for everything whether driving, biking or commuting on the train.
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>> Possibly - but I'm more handsome. :-0
Having just Googled him (never heard of him before) being better looking than him would not be difficult!
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Yeah, I have summat similar to the Dugongs jacket. Pockets are the key to efficiency.
I carry a lot of stuff...Angina spray, sweeteners, pen/notebook, reading specs, various cards, phone, keys, etc. Like a ruddy ironmongers shop !
I have a cheap man-bag as well...cagoule in a small crush bag, tele umbrella, knife, teaspoon,
10mm spanner, camera/batteries, leatherman and other essential mankit.
Going up to stay with Cumbrian pals in a coupla weeks.......there's a good ' outdoor ' shop in Milnthorpe where I'll be gricing the coats...my Trespass is worn and me pens are ending up in the lining. Plus, of course, they have a nice cafe for lunch.
Feel naked without all me gear.
Ted
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>>10mm spanner
For your nuts? ;>)
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Nah...way too small !.......probably a 40mm better, Tommy.
Ted
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Feel naked without all me gear.
Ted, you're not my F-in-L in disguise, are you? He carries all that, plus his ancient Psion Organiser (which had pub-bore devotees long before the iPhone) in the pockets of a thick tweed jacket.
I once reached over a table to retrieve it for him from the back of a chair. (Not sure why he'd taken it off; perhaps it was his annual concession to the temperature passing 30'C. In any case, he'd kept his woollen waistcoat on.) I'd lifted it about an inch when I realized I wasn't going to make it, so I went round the table and used the full knees-bent manual handling technique from the posters at work.
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Roger and Rob *sigh* :)
I could have said Ewan McGregor looks better in leathers but you really must understand that real women don't go for good looks.
They go for sexy leather clad bums and Charlie has one!
Pat
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I'll turn the other (sleek and surprisingly shapely) cheek ! Started watching the Long Way Down the other day - some cracking riding in it.
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There is, and it's compulsive viewing once started!
Pat
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I'm feeling the urge to get them both out again and have a look. ( The DVDs, not the 40mms !)
Ted
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Blinking heck ! Had a nice blustery, but reasonable day today - wind picked up a few minutes ago to "blizzard" the lying leaves and blow over a tethered (and heavy) bird table, followed by the mother of all showers, enough to knock out the satellite signal on the BBC (not seen that happen here) - it stopped as suddenly as it rushed in and the wind has dropped to nothing - that was one front that !
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Talking of Iffy, he's not been around today, that must be why it's quiet:)
Pat
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Sound like you were on the receiving end of a squall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squall
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I know - we're on only a few miles from the sea (at Malltraeth) - nawt between us and the Irish sea, the "stoup" was like the bridge of the Compass Rose, all I needed was a duffel coat, a mug of cocoa to complete it....
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Steady as she goes, let go fo'ard - I have the con Number One !
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There really isn't a lot to do round your way is there RP?
:-)
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You could always start a snail racing team. But don't be deluded into thinking you can make them go faster by taking their shells off. It'll only make them sluggish...
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Well funnily enough now have two remote control helicopters - and was planning to race them with the other 'alf - trouble is the dog keeps chasing (and catching them) :-(
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Well I think I knew he was a springer but that's outstanding !
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Close this one's a Working Cocker - bit like a springer. Looking at getting another dog - company for the other one really ;-)
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Yeah propably better than spending your days playing with your chopper in the garden. Especially if the dog keeps grabbing it.
:-))
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R.P. - a nice animation of said weather front passing over you a couple of hours ago:
www.raintoday.co.uk/
Be quick, raintoday only archives the last 2 hours 15 minutes, in 15 minute chunks.
It looks like your weather'll get here about 9.30pm :(
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Miss it already - thanks for the link
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Looking forward to that rain hitting Reading - cleared loads of mud and stones from our drains over the weekend (first time in this house) and I want to see all that water disappearing without trace :)
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>> Well funnily enough now have two remote control helicopters - and was planning to race
>> them with the other 'alf - trouble is the dog keeps chasing (and catching them)
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Dont play with the choppers in a squall, or its "goodbye No 1"
Compass rose? "Snorkers Good Oh!"
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Don't you think the guy who said that looked like Morrisey ?
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And with a similar sweet disposition!
It was played by Stanley Baker.
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>> Malltraeth
I'll pop in for a cup of tea... milk and half a sugar please. :-)
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Just goes to show the pitfalls of speed reading. I was about to deny that Stanley Baxter was in that film...
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Scottish Education for you!
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SWMBO gets really mad when I call sausages "snorkers"! (Which I do frequently.)
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My BiL's wife also calls them that, maybe something local to her area - sort of Hook way.
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Flagged as an Essex slang word on Urban Dictionary's site.
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Nah just the cup of tea would be nice.
So tempting to go for a drive in the car tomorrow. But I should work I suppose ;-)
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Call round by all means e-mail me for details !
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Ever seen the "Shining" RTJ ?
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Don't tell him Humph ! You're obssesed by choppers...
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A long time ago Humph. What have I said that reminds you of that?
Johnny
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Big house, middle of nowhere...
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If memory serves me correctly, the bloke who said 'snorkers' was from the Antipodes. wots that got to do with Stanley Baxter?
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I just sneaked a look at Wiki - the original character in the book was an Aussie. Fine book - better than the film, bit that was a cracking film as well.
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Back on topic.....
Was driving in Perthshire this afternoon, and on the road from Bridge of Balgie (Glen Lyon) past Ben Lawers there was real snow falling (but not lying).
Somehow, heroically managed to keep the Michelin Energy Savers from depositing us into the scenery through sheer driving skill.
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>> Was driving in Perthshire this afternoon, and on the road from Bridge of Balgie (Glen
>> Lyon) past Ben Lawers there was real snow falling (but not lying).
>> Somehow, heroically managed to keep the Michelin Energy Savers from depositing us into the scenery through sheer driving skill.
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Could you please write a FULL report on how you managed such a feat?
You must be very brave driving in such appalling conditions without the correct tyres fitted to your car.
;-)
BTW can anyone please advise me of a supplier of snow tyres for my Honda?
Its a VFR750.....
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Iffy must have bad weather. Not sure he's looked in today.
Tempting to drive to North Wales tomorrow PU. Even if you're not going to brew the tea. :-)
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Iffy weather - Iffy
