The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[tango15]

That can't be the Lake District, GG - it's not raining! I say this with some passion, because as one who thinks it is indeed a particularly beautiful part of the UK, whenever I have been there - and we're talking a period of 50 years here - it has been persisting down. Obviously rain is a major feature, otherwise there wouldn't be any lakes, but it would be nice to go there just once and see it bright and sunny!

[TheGreenGoblin]

That can't be the Lake District, GG - it's not raining! I say this with some passion, because as one who thinks it is indeed a particularly beautiful part of the UK, whenever I have been there - and we're talking a period of 50 years here - it has been persisting down. Obviously rain is a major feature, otherwise there wouldn't be any lakes, but it would be nice to go there just once and see it bright and sunny!

I have been very lucky with the weather tango15, save for the howling blizzard, that took out the power for just under 48 hours after 20:00 hrs on Saturday night, it has been mostly clear and bright. Have been hiking every day, snow days excluded...

It is cloudy and raining as I type this though.

[Rwy in Sight]

A day off here for me as I have to use the yearly leave. Ex-A my wishes for your back to heal soon. Once upon a time a sergant with an Air Froce did attend a school for a Rheinetal anti-aircraft gun. He didn't want to qualify on the weapon so he answered every question he knew wrongly and left he questions he didn't know unanswered as not to give a correct answer by mistake. He got a pass.

A couple of my plants in pots died over the few last days despite the weather turning much more wet. I need to water the ones still alive every other day. The day looks cold but the temperature is not to low.

TGG, nice you post again here.

[Woody]

TGG hope that you’ve got time to visit the Pencil Museum in Keswick

http://pencilmuseum.co.uk/

[EA01]

I've partaken of Keswick mint cake..... friggin' long time ago though.....

[1DC]

Only been to the Lake District once, stayed for a week about forty plus years ago. We rented a very nice cottage with a lovely garden and a brook running through, quite idyllic really. While we were there I doubt if the temperature dropped below 70F even at night and definitely no rain. The kids enjoyed it although I seem to remember Mrs 1DC moaning about mossies. I have no idea why we have never been back.

[EA01]

Now just cramming medical stuff.... :/ ....

[Pontius Navigator]

That can't be the Lake District, GG - it's not raining?

My cousin in NZ sent me this link



It was taken this month and passes my 4 times great grandfather's church and passed his house. TGG's earlier stop at Coniston means he went near his father's home at Torver his father's at Ulpha. Houses don't fall down there.

[PHXPhlyer]

Ex-A:
Was the collapse due to over use or overload?

PP

[llondel]

We went to the Lake District for our honeymoon. It was damn cold the first morning, we wandered up and down Keswick High Street and bought some decent gear. I still have the hat, fleece and coat today, they have aged very well and are excellent in cold weather. One day we were driving and it seemed there was different weather every time we went through a mountain pass, so we pretty much had all the experiences.

I do remember from even earlier than that, out hiking as the weather deteriorated to the point where a gust of wind would blow us back several feet. The group sheltered behind a convenient boulder, consulted maps and decided to give it one last try before switching to plan B. Out from the boulder and I think we made ten more steps before plan B went into effect. Good timing, because we were now walking with our backs to the wind, which then decided to fling hailstones at us in 50MPH gusts. All very exhilarating being warm while surrounded by raw nature like that.

[Pontius Navigator]

Ilondel, we honeymooned in Keswick amongst other places. September and a shabby bedroom in a hotel off the High Street with no central heating (no, it was not a cunning plan) but a wind up, wall mounted electric fire. The sort with multiple coils on which you could toast bread. Everytime it switched off you had to wind it up again.

[ribrash]

I've partaken of Keswick mint cake..... friggin' long time ago though.....

Kendal mint cake.

[tango15]

We went to the Lake District for our honeymoon. It was damn cold the first morning, we wandered up and down Keswick High Street and bought some decent gear. I still have the hat, fleece and coat today, they have aged very well and are excellent in cold weather. One day we were driving and it seemed there was different weather every time we went through a mountain pass, so we pretty much had all the experiences.

I do remember from even earlier than that, out hiking as the weather deteriorated to the point where a gust of wind would blow us back several feet. The group sheltered behind a convenient boulder, consulted maps and decided to give it one last try before switching to plan B. Out from the boulder and I think we made ten more steps before plan B went into effect. Good timing, because we were now walking with our backs to the wind, which then decided to fling hailstones at us in 50MPH gusts. All very exhilarating being warm while surrounded by raw nature like that.

That sounds like the Lake District I know, llondel. During a trip home from Prestwick many years ago, my mate and I were in a hired Ford Popular. Not quite the Lake District, but close! We had just reached the summit of Shap when we got a puncture. No M6 in those days, we were on the old A6. We sat in the car working out how we would do a Formula 1 style wheel change, while the rain hammered on the windows. We achieved the wheel change relatively quickly and as we got back in the car, soaked to the skin, 'Rhythm of the Rain' by The Cascades was playing on the radio - I've never forgotten that!

[Wodrick]

Coniston is nice, my favourite is Ullswater.

Secondary school trip. Camping bottom end of Derwent water,Grange in Borrowdale IIRC, I was 16 so 1966.

I had a four man very traditional tent with a sewn in groundsheet.
One of our number had brought a very old fashioned alarm clock the type with bells on top and stick out feet.
This was tied on the cross bar.
The Gym master took us out for a walk terminating at the local and we all had a few.
When we returned to the camp site we discovered that the alarm clock had slipped its tethers and falling to ground, punched a small hole in the groundsheet.
We failed to grasp the significance of this.
The Rain started, I have read Grange in Borrowdale is one of the wettest places in the UK. So it proved.
We woke wet, with water bubbling up through the alarm clock hole.

Exit four wet schoolboys to the wooden shed that was the lavatory.
We had a can of Baxters Scotch Broth cold for sustenance.
I have never eaten canned scotch broth since !

[Karearea]

Very best wishes for your SM, Wodrick.

TGG, Arthur Ransome/Swallows and Amazons territory in the Lake District.

Ex-Ascot - tricky things, backs, hope yours eases up.

[Pontius Navigator]

Wodrick. camping could merit a whole section to itself:

Our tent blown flat in a gale in the Brecon.
A night on bare mountain (Pen y Fan) with a tent but no poles.
Mrs PN's contact lenses in a field somewhere in Switzerland.

[Wodrick]

Very best wishes for your SM, Wodrick.

Well she has ditched the bloke who has botched the operation twice and the new one she likes.
Our Medical Gestoria rates him too,fingers crossed third time lucky.

[OFSO]

Black day today. Madame took short cut through the gate pillar when returning home from foot care. Car bodywork can't be fixed until next year as public holidays eat into workshop time (two days next week) and we are away.

I did manage to fix the deLonghi espresso machine. Tiny pipe was severely blocked with calcium, had to push a wire thru with pliars.

[jimtherev]

TGG Great to hear from you
Blessings from Jim

[Karearea]

I should have said earlier, "Rabbit rabbits rabbits" for the first of the month.

I like pictorial calendars - in my home, the December pages depict a Banded Dotterel in the smallest room; in the dining-room a view of Rome rooftops with St Peter's; a yellow-crowned parakeet in the kitchen; and a very small mantelpiece calendar with 'vintage' posters of Italy - this month, Faraglioni, Capri.

In town today; the effect of the recent roadworks seems to have been to reduce the number of parking spaces available, not clever.

In past years one could obtain at the supermarket a foil-wrapped chocolate "St Nicholas" with mitre and crosier; today I had to settle for a "Santa" with a sack of stuff, oh well. Made in Greece apparently, don't remember seeing Greek choccy here before.

Dull and overcast with a few spots of drizzle; about 16°C.