Cliff Ton 10,509 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 24 hours ago it was tornado-strength winds. Now it's this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,615 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Really ...snow? It's bright sunshine and very light showers here at the momen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Just you wait. It’s already over Stamford and Wisbech. Your turn is coming very soon. It doesn’t last too long though! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,509 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 It's already finished and thawing here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Just been up & over the hill, anyone coming sledging while the kids are at school? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 That reminds me of Woodthorpe Park back in the 50’s. It was a much steeper slope though, down towards the old Sherwood station. Another favourite was Breckhill fields. It was on the left as you went up the hill and the slalom course was round the thorn bushes towards Melbury Red. All built on now of course. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 A few trees down on Wollo after Storm Clara. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 The snow has changed course. Margie in the Fens might just miss it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 19 minutes ago, philmayfield said: The snow has changed course. Margie in the Fens might just miss it! Unless, the snow is searching for Margie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Where’s the quote police? See above why, why why? We have just f’in read it Arrrrrrrrrrgh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Shurrup moaning radford dread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,615 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 BK The snow hasn't found me! Looking on the BBC Weather app, it looks like there'll be intermittent strong gusty winds here for another week yet. Of course this has nothing to do with Notts as I'm now a Fen woman (Without webbed feet btw) I don't possess a boat, stilts or eel baskets either so perhaps I'm not really a Fen lass? Of course, when the sea level rises - as it surely will - perhaps I'd be grateful for the aforementioned items. I suspect it will affect our children and grandchildren more than me,.....but who knows ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 I can remember, mid 70s, working out of SPD bilborough, delivering around Deeping St.James and that area of the fens, where everywhere seemed to be flooded. Particularly some roads under water and when I looked out of the cab, the bottom of the tyres were under water which came up to the steel rims. It was quite unnerving looking all around and seeing only water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,615 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 We don't get floods in our immediate vicinity as we are on a hill - well , it's considered a hill in this part of the world! Our nearest proper river is about 2 miles away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 That's why I joined the Fenland Mountain Rescue Service. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,222 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 I've just been chatting to a man in my local who's living on a narrow boat at Hazleford. He said it was a bit choppy in the gales yesterday! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,740 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 I've just spent an hour or so 'ripping' my brand new D'Agostini re-press of the Beatles first album 'Please Please Me' to digital from vinyl. I have all of the Beatles output on vinyl and am steadily getting round to ripping it to my music server and to CD for the car. Because I'm taking it from vinyl replay it obviously has to be done in 'real time'.. not like just dragging and dropping some file. So.. I listen as I go.. It dawned on me that although I know every one of the songs on 'Please Please Me' inside out.. it must be at the very least 55 years since I last sat through the whole album.. in the intended sequence. I was transported back to a time when we had 7" singles and Dansettes.. and Albums if we were lucky.. Thoughts of school... singing songs on the school yard.. Up at the Wyvilles on Andover Road Bestwood..listening to Beatles songs 'taped' from BBC radio, which wouldn't emerge again for decades.. Remembering my late Sis Pam.. who had that album.. So much else.. all contained in that one album... It meks yer think... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,298 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Well! I had to go back into the pub and ask for volunteers after my pint or three on Sunday evening. My hat blew off as I was leaving and I could not find it in the dark. So a search party staggered out of the pub shining their I phones all over the place, The wind was so strong that my hat was probably on it's way to Uttoxeter and would probably end up in Nottingham. The search party was called off and I went home hatless. Mrs PP put out an SOS on the local website and the hat was returned the morning after. It had only gone 200 yards. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,222 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 You sound disappointed PP. Were you hoping to get a postcard from Nottingham or Lincoln from your hat? Consider yourself lucky indeed, could've had yer 'end blown off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,257 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Trip into Bulwell this morning,,,considering it was Market day' it was very quiet,,,only about 4 Stalls working,,,cold weather perhaps?.....never used to make any difference. Went in Tesco,,fancied some 'Pyclets' couldn't find any,,,came out with a pair of ''Skinny Jeans'''.........Bumped into an old school mate,,,who cheered me up ,,telling me about a couple of old football mates,who had hung their Boots up for the last time....,,got cheered up though,when my next 'Bump into'' was a girl from my year at school,,,to me she still looked the same,,,,and still turned me down...... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Was she still in uniform? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,509 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Ben, when was the last time you stepped outside your door and didn't bump into an old girl-friend ? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 I think they line up outside. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,527 Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Been to London today, third time in the past month but this time to be a caring Mummy to my youngest son. (The other two trips were very enjoyable, seeing a West End show with a night in a nice hotel) Today our kid had an operation on his knee and lower leg to remove a bit of bone that had come adrift since he had a bad break 8 years ago. For a few weeks he’s been in agony and on crutches some of the time but an MRI scan showed up the problem and he was in The Cromwell Hospital to get it fixed. As well as the bit of loose bone the surgeon removed a metal plate and six long screws that were inserted 8 years ago, these apparently weren’t necessary anymore. He was given the ‘Meccano’ bits in a bag, we were amazed how big and heavy they are. Once he was discharged he actually walked out of the hospital to the car, and then the journey back to Tring in Herts to drop him home and then up to Nottingham. It’s been a long day. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,359 Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 On 2/11/2020 at 12:26 PM, DJ360 said: It meks yer think... It certainly does DJ360, I cannot remember when I last listened to a LP from beginning to end. It must have been at the same time I was transferring vinyl to digital too. It is embarrassing to say that I remember the LP it was "The Sound of Music" as the leader of the opposition likes that sort of stuff. Recently spent time transferring from CD to USB as our new car does not have a CD player and at the same time I backed them up to a separate hard drive. I am not a fan of using the phone in the car for music. Having spent the last twenty years of my working life beholden to a pager then a mobile phone, now I am retired I don't want anything to do with them, only there for an emergency, and I have to admit at this moment I don't exactly know where my phone is. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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