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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    edited July 2018
    Hostafan1 said:
    DyersEnd said:
     Now that's great but I shan't be able to see the blood moon. That is just flipping annoying. Grrrrrrr
    In my experience of seeing a fair number of them over the years, you're not missing much. We keep hearing of " blood red " , but , those I have seen have merely been a slightly muddy brown.

     I saw one once that was absolutely blood red.  It was very freaky.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2018
    We still have a precious three day forecast showing, of heavy downpours and thunderstorms, starting this afternoon (Accuweather - the fantasy channel). The sky at the moment here is just about as blue and cloudless as it's possible to be. Does anyone know how to do cloud seeding? Is there a DIY instructable video anywhere?

    Dove, yes, there is a 'season' for everything. It is a lovely broad word, with so many sense levels to it.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    The BBC forecast yesterday showed that there is rain to the West and the East of me and it will pour down.  But not a drop will get here until Sunday.  
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Can I be very curmudgeonly about Dyno Rod " 8am -1pm" appointment. " we'll call half an hour before we arrive" Well...... they'd better get a flippin' move one.
     I've been hanging around the house all morning for fear of losing signal if I get too far away.
    Devon.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited July 2018
    Ugh I hate that too, Hosta. I reckon they might take 8-1 as they time they have to call within... or maybe not.

    I reckon this is as good an instructional video as you'll find, Fire.
    https://youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The Met Office have promised us in the east

     "...The risk of more significant thunderstorms increases later in the afternoon, turning locally torrential with hail and briefly gusty winds. Maximum temperature 37 °C.

    Tonight:

    A very humid evening with thunderstorms continuing, locally torrential. The threat of storms decreases during the night, becoming dry across most parts ..."


    Don't think I'll even moan if it is torrential as long as it's wet ........ (as long as no one gets hurt of course). 


    @Fire ....  I loved reading Melvyn Bragg's 'The Adventure of English ... the biography of a language' it's high on the list of possibles to be taken to my desert island ... when they get around to asking me ... (anyone know why it's taking them so long?)   ;)


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Thwawted!  I was getting all wound up, ready to Grrump about the row the kids next door make now they have broken up for the happy summer holidays and the little ***** have gone away to summer camp! However I am delighting in the continued quiet.

    I am guessing they will be home this week-end so the screams, shouts, fights, arguments, crying, etc. etc. will then rend the countryside with their usual cacophony

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Great call, LG. Donald Sutherland's room looks my own father's kitchen. He was inventor.

    It's such a wonderful album.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2018
    "I loved reading Melvyn Bragg's 'The Adventure of English ... the biography of a language' "

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    over 8 minutes on hold to british gas, grrrr
    Devon.
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