The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Same as over the flat calm lake, 26 for 30.

Tax gorn from account, no need for second instalmen, I gave Gestoria piece of paper which established fund as an Annuity.
Treated differently to the final salary fund I thought it was until very recently.
She has saved me thousands, tax payable 12€ 65c. I can afford that, now getting the documents together to claim a rebate.

Hearing aid shop this morning for spares and a quick visit to the hypermarket.
Normal supplies and post this afternoon.

Getting IN to the bank to transfer savings is proving difficult

[barkingmad]

212.8 mm (8.37 inches in real money) rainfall in the Honister Pass area in the 24hours between 28-29th June.

Derwentwater was reported at a very high level and therefore flooding likely as a result.

I suppose it’s a great place to go for a honeymoon as more time will be available to spend on indoor pursuits such as ‘Discussions of a Ugandan Nature’ and that by the end of the romantic interlude the newly married couple will have their skills keenly honed.

They will then be ready to return to the humdrum world of domesticity.

Meantime, as they watch their car floating out of the hotel car park, they might want to reflect on previous flooding in the Keswick area after which questions were raised but never answered as to what steps the privately owned water company could have taken to mitigate the flood damage.

Usually such rainfall levels are adequately forecast and there was a suggestion that if in the days before the deluge(s) that money-making corporation could have allowed a controlled release of water into the rivers then the reservoir(s) could have acted as a buffer as they refilled thereby reducing the water volume subsequently pouring downstream.

But of course that would involve planning and the throwing away of “their” asset into the sea and does not conform to corporate responsibility to their shareholders.

Alternatively do we have any civil-engineering members, or even civil engineering members, who might have a stab at answering this technical question?

I’d love to hear from any Lake District area resident O-Ns as to whether they’d heard of this option and what was the result of the inquiry...

Edited to add: Woody, I confess to raising the topic of raised water levels in the Lake District, it’s a fair cop guv!

[Woody]

Morning everyone, looks like I should have started a Lake District rainfall thread myself , but I’m well aware of the meteorological peculiarities of the area as I’ve been visiting and camping many times, actually this year we’re staying in a lodge on the shores of Windermere, as tents are still not allowed and if everything thing goes completely Pete, my late Father’s Sister lives in Windermere town
( not Bo’ness).

[barkingmad]

G-CPTN and myself could pop across the hills and buy you a pint providing we’re not swept away by the deluge?

Allegedly, Noah’s Ark was a boat as broad as it was long, so what price it’s rough-water handling qualities?

[Pontius Navigator]

BM, our honeymoon hotel in Keswick had a windup electric fire. One of those wall mounted multi element ones in a metal enamelled case. Fully wound it ran for a few minutes leading to coitus interrupsus.

We moved on.

[Woody]

G-CPTN and myself could pop across the hills and buy you a pint providing we’re not swept away by the deluge?

I’m hoping to be able to help Jennings of Cockermouth with their cash flow while in the area.

As an aside, the heaviest rain I’ve ever encountered was in Greymouth on South Island, we couldn’t get back to our hotel and had to stop in the pub

We did however manage to make the Montieth’ s brewery tour the next day.

[barkingmad]

Another aside, I have good memories of a day trip to/from Greymouth on the spectacular train ride in Feb 2019. The sun shone at Greymouth then but I suppose the name gives it away and heyho, it’s a westerly facing port...

There’s a clue for anyone looking to resettle for retirement!

[Woody]

Another aside, I have good memories of a day trip to/from Greymouth on the spectacular train ride in Feb 2019. The sun shone at Greymouth then but I suppose the name gives it away and heyho, it’s a westerly facing port...

There’s a clue for anyone looking to resettle for retirement!

Greymouth receives mean annual rainfall high by New Zealand standards and this rainfall is distributed relatively evenly throughout the year.

96 inches of rain on average

[barkingmad]

Average 1 month in Greymouth equalling 24 hours in Honister?

[Woody]

Not due to arrive until the 13th of July, I’ll provide weather reports and details, which will be the opposite of Wodricks CdS count

[ricardian]

Just being talking about retiring to the Lake District with my better half who nixed that with a "it rains too much"...

What hope have I of persuading her to move to the Shetlands which is really where I want to live?

The Lake District is foul in summer. Basically a car park interspersed with traffic jams!

Never, ever is it "The Shetlands"! It is just "Shetland" or "The Shetland Isles"

[Groundgripper]

Not due to arrive until the 13th of July

We're going there for a week starting 11th July, staying near Grange-Over-Sands, so we've got a good quick escape route to the M6 if the rain doesn't stop.

We never go there in high summer - we discovered it takes us an hour to get to Kendal and another hour and a half to get to Windermere (if it's open) during August.

GG

[TheGreenGoblin]

Just being talking about retiring to the Lake District with my better half who nixed that with a "it rains too much"...

What hope have I of persuading her to move to the Shetlands which is really where I want to live?

The Lake District is foul in summer. Basically a car park interspersed with traffic jams!

Never, ever is it "The Shetlands"! It is just "Shetland" or "The Shetland Isles"

Thank you for the info and I will abide by your good advice. I want to make a good impression so that they will let me in. I wonder if there is an entrance exam!

[Woody]

G-CPTN and myself could pop across the hills and buy you a pint providing we’re not swept away by the deluge?

With Ground Gripper in the vicinity, perhaps we could arrange a O-N meeting , following Boris’s latest advice of course

[Woody]

If the locals are calling it wet

Weather on the fells: Another wet day
Temperatures at 3,000ft (900m): 8C to 10C (46F to 50F)
Winds: Moderate westerly with gusts to 30mph, gradually veering south-westerly and easing as the day goes on
Cloud: Bases will be around 1,600ft to 2,300ft (500m to 700m) for most of the day, but could fall further in any heavier spells of rain
Weather: It will be mostly cloudy with spells of rain, heavy at times. Later the rain will ease to leave it largely dry, but on the whole it will remain cloudy
Visibility: Moderate, but occasionally turning good at lower levels later

[barkingmad]

T G G said " I wonder if there is an entrance exam!".

I suppose it's possible, but beware one which involves the use of rubber gloves, under the guise of disease precautions?

[Pontius Navigator]

Just being talking about retiring to the Lake District with my better half who nixed that with a "it rains too much"...

What hope have I of persuading her to move to the Shetlands which is really where I want to live?

The Lake District is foul in summer. Basically a car park interspersed with traffic jams!

Never, ever is it "The Shetlands"! It is just "Shetland" or "The Shetland Isles"

But you live in the Orkneys



Souwester, oikskins, boots

[Pontius Navigator]

staying near Grange-Over-Sands

Should it be Grange over Sand?

[Groundgripper]

With the south-westerly winds we've had over the last few days, Grange-under-Sands might be more appropriate.

GG

[G-CPTN]

Usually such rainfall levels are adequately forecast and there was a suggestion that if in the days before the deluge(s) that money-making corporation could have allowed a controlled release of water into the rivers then the reservoir(s) could have acted as a buffer as they refilled thereby reducing the water volume subsequently pouring downstream.

Storm Desmond (December 2015) caused devastation in Tynedale, with Kielder overtopping (not the cause but it resulted in sustaining the flooding).
As a result, our Flood Action Group managed to persuade Northumbrian Water to reduce the storage level in Autumn to allow for possible deluges.

Why Kielder Reservoir won't be as full as normal during the winter months.