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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    @steveTu you do, clearly  :)

    20mph on steep hills is much easier in an ev
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t think people like any change,  especially where their beloved cars are involved.
    There are several 20 mph limits where my daughter lives,  and speed humps to go with them.  You get used to it,  come out 15 minutes earlier.  Most places you can’t do more than 29 anyway.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We would have had trouble with a car that we had many years ago. You had to take a run at a steep hill and God help us if there was a slow lorry half way up the hill. A half gear would've been useful!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    'basis points' is the terminology used in the financial sector so lazy journalist don't bother to convert it into something the common rabble understand.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Is there a word for wet hail ( whail) ?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    @steveTu you do, clearly  :)

    20mph on steep hills is much easier in an ev

    No I didn't. I kept on hearing things like '...half of one percent....' and ' ...n basis points...' and had to google it today - I had assumed before.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • I’ve never heard Graupel mentioned in the weather forecast 

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-is-the-difference-between-freezing-rain-sleet-snow-hail-and-graupel/339868 

    … so basically it’s that snow that really stings your cheeks. ⛄️ 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2023
    Well it was definitely wet hail - like falling slush. Hailush.  Sounds Scottish too so they can add it to the precipitation lisht
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Condensation on the inside of windows already? So hot last week that the ground was still cracking and within a week the Karcher's (other window vacuums are available) out.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Condensation on our windows as well and we didn’t have the heating on. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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