Damned rocks - Page 2

Bigmuz7 · 20 August 2009, 22:35

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Originally Posted by Erin

Would that be the Indian Summer they've forecast for the last few years running?. About bloody time it turned up. 'spose they'll be right eventually if they say it often enough

2 - 3 years ago (

) up here was a cracker and felt very odd in september with mid summer heat

tonymac · 23 August 2009, 23:07

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Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

Lucky b .. furthest vis I got was my neighbours next door tonight.. 20 yards

Ah well thats Glasgow for ye .. maybe well get an Indian summer yet

Fully agree Bigmuz7 - we are in the same position. Bloody northern weather! These lucky b.. from the south have all the lovely weather - but still can't stop dinging their boats!!!

alystra · 24 August 2009, 00:20

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Originally Posted by tonymac

Fully agree Bigmuz7 - we are in the same position. Bloody northern weather! These lucky b.. from the south have all the lovely weather - but still can't stop dinging their boats!!!

Yes, but our northern weather is what stops those southern b.....s from coming up here and telling us, in very loud voices, how to live here. It's worth a lot of crappy weather to keep them away.

codprawn · 24 August 2009, 02:19

Well we get more rain than any of you - and we aren't in the North!!!

alystra · 25 August 2009, 12:08

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Well we get more rain than any of you - and we aren't in the North!!!

I'm sure you're right.

Remind me. Where is Wales?

willk · 25 August 2009, 13:46

Stop squabbling, you Celtic raingods, the English get a buzz out of that "divide & conquer" stuff.

"we get more rain than you do etc"

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Would yis be quiet already, yer scaring the tourists

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Anyway, I get more rain than any of ye, and C-P is second with about 1500mm annually. Do I get a prize? John West hat???

alystra · 25 August 2009, 17:07

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Originally Posted by willk

Stop squabbling, you Celtic raingods, the English get a buzz out of that "divide & conquer" stuff.

"we get more rain than you do etc"

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Would yis be quiet already, yer scaring the tourists

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Anyway, I get more rain than any of ye, and C-P is second with about 1500mm annually. Do I get a prize? John West hat???

codprawn · 25 August 2009, 17:57

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Originally Posted by alystra

I'm sure you're right.

Remind me. Where is Wales?

Not sure - it hasn't been visable for the last 3 years!!!

Bigmuz7 · 25 August 2009, 17:59

As long as someone has more of 'something' than Codprawn, I'll settle for that

just so he doesnt get too cocky....... (STD's excluded

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Erin · 26 August 2009, 14:35

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Originally Posted by alystra

Yes, but our northern weather is what stops those southern b.....s from coming up here and telling us, in very loud voices, how to live here. It's worth a lot of crappy weather to keep them away.

Hmmm. Most of my ancestors came from north of the border, and it seems to me they couldn't leave fast enough 150 years ago. Having been a resident of Edinburgh for 10 years or so in the late 80's (the civilised side of Scotland I believe) I miss only a few things:- snow in the winter and lovely pure tap water. Why anyone would buy bottled mineral water up there was beyond me.

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Originally Posted by alystra

Yes, but our northern weather is what stops those southern b.....s from coming up here and telling us, in very loud voices, how to live here. It's worth a lot of crappy weather to keep them away.

You've answered your own question as it were. It's your awful weather that's eroded all the rocks down to nothing. And what's left is so deep now after all the rain that there's nothing left as a danger to surface navigation.

willk · 26 August 2009, 15:54

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Originally Posted by Erin

Hmmm. Most of my ancestors came from north of the border, and it seems to me they couldn't leave fast enough 150 years ago.

As indeed did some of my own. They were spurred on by this incentive scheme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

... and we're still not happy about it!

Erin · 26 August 2009, 16:02

I think mine would have been due to the 'Lowland Clearances' if there ever was such a thing.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire I suppose, with the your spud famine they must have walked straight into. Or am I about 100 years out?

alystra · 26 August 2009, 16:56

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You've answered your own question as it were. It's your awful weather that's eroded all the rocks down to nothing.

After this last month and a half I can quite believe that's true.

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And what's left is so deep now after all the rain that there's nothing left as a danger to surface navigation.

Ah! That's what we like 'those with very loud voices' to believe, so keep it quiet.

The resultant broken keels, outdrives, propellors and leaky boats keep this village in employment all winter.

codprawn · 26 August 2009, 19:22

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Originally Posted by willk

Stop squabbling, you Celtic raingods, the English get a buzz out of that "divide & conquer" stuff.

"we get more rain than you do etc"

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Would yis be quiet already, yer scaring the tourists

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Anyway, I get more rain than any of ye, and C-P is second with about 1500mm annually. Do I get a prize? John West hat???

Depends on what part of Swansea - it varies quite a bit. Just my luck to live in the wettest and windiest bit. Last 2 years have been about 2200mm - that is more than the Amazon jungle gets!!! Back in about 2000 it was about 1200mm - and we USED to think that was bad.

Global warming has a lot to answer for!!!