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Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: wullie/mk2 on December 22, 2011, 10:32:13 am

Title: No Snow
Post by: wullie/mk2 on December 22, 2011, 10:32:13 am
What a change from this time last year, then, I was snowed in, knee deep in snow, frozen pipes, central heating working around the clock,...Today its a balmy 10deg, and getting warmer,
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Arrow5 on December 22, 2011, 12:04:19 pm
Never mind last year Wullie, how about the change in the last two days on the ski slopes of Cairngorm :((
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Arrow5 on December 22, 2011, 12:04:20 pm
Double post, sorry
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Jonty on December 22, 2011, 01:42:22 pm
  Serious business - I have a shop full of sledges, snow scoops, and rock salt.
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Martin (Admin) on December 22, 2011, 03:01:14 pm

Nice day here in Cambridgeshire too!
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: pugwash on December 22, 2011, 05:13:07 pm
Last year at this time the lake was solid ice
today my brother and  I were  catching trout on a dry fly just like spring
I could do woth some more of this

Geoff
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: mikearace on December 22, 2011, 08:50:29 pm
This time last year I had picked my elderley father in law up in Northumberland to drive back to the South West. a 5 hour normal journey including a stop at the services for a cuppa was over 10 hours.  Stationary at M5/M42 junction for 2 hours until a snow plough cleared the way later that night.  Didnt expect to make it home at all.  The motorway was carnage. 
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Arrow5 on December 22, 2011, 09:40:48 pm
BBC News weather girl pointed out that the temperature this day last year at Altnaharra was minus 16c , this year it is +13c...29 degrees difference  ! :o 
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: irishcarguy on December 23, 2011, 08:07:47 am
HI GUYS it is 85 above here in Maui right now.I got to the airport this morning only to be informed by Homeland Security USA that because I am only a British subject(I was born in Ireland) using my British passport that I required a Visa or I could not board the plane, ten minutes later & $585.00 dollars lighter they let me board, did I feel ripped off, you bet. I am trying to figure out how $585.00 made me O/K all of a sudden.Talk about being ripped off . Next year I will spend my money elsewhere, you can be assured of that. Mick B.
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Martin (Admin) on December 23, 2011, 08:36:09 am

"I am trying to figure out how $585.00 made me O/K all of a sudden."    :o

Have a good holiday anyway... eat cheap!
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: malcolmfrary on December 23, 2011, 09:10:07 am
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I am trying to figure out how $585.00 made me O/K all of a sudden.
If you donate $585 to the US, you must, by definition, be a good guy.  By the definition of the US authorities, anyway.  Obviously undesirables would not have access to £585.
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: Daemon on December 23, 2011, 09:16:38 am
Heheh, thats odd, mate!

Yeah, its just windy and gloomy here in Ashington, I'm getting fed up of it, the guys on the tank forum are posting snow pics, and im getting very fed up, lol.

That being said, back in January in the blizzard I undertook a drive to Otterburn MTC in my Fiat Punto - was going great till I slid off the road into a safety barrier - for a snow plough to drive past five minutes later!!!!

Dave.
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: brianB6 on December 23, 2011, 09:54:55 am
We'll throw another prawn on the Barbie for you on Chrismas Day.  :-))
Forecast 28 degrees for Melbourne.    O0
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: RaaArtyGunner on December 23, 2011, 10:04:13 am
We'll throw another prawn on the Barbie for you on Chrismas Day.  :-))
Forecast 28 degrees for Melbourne.    O0

Likewise for Brisbane. O0 O0 :-)) :-))
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: wullie/mk2 on December 24, 2011, 10:33:19 am
We might be doing the same here, ..forecast for tomorrow, a balmy 14.5deg/pos 15/16,...as Duncan says, thats a 20 + difference.deg. from last year,...and only 2 weeks ago we had 160 mph winds,....its nuts,
Title: Re: No Snow
Post by: derekwarner on December 24, 2011, 09:52:13 pm
No snow in Wollongong.....but I am in Adelaide this morming  %)....no snow here either.... @ 36 degrees C

New beer [for me] its called Coopers 62.....man is not a camel..so a few will be needed as we peel the prawns.....

Amazing price differential yesterday...Australian salt water [not farmed] king prawns ranged from $22/kg to $43/kg....... Australian salt water [not farmed] king tiger prawns $36/kg to $56/kg

That's not cheap food....$56/kg x 1000 kg  x 20 tons per catch = $1,120,000.00  O0  :kiss:

Merry Christmas....... :-)) ....Derek