Northerners!

[BUFFS]

Hi - how you doing?

I've just spent a couple of fabulous days in Northumberland and Edinburgh. Weather fantastic.

So what's all this nonsense about it being harder to grow veg up here? Warmer here than Cornwall. Are you making things up?

Southerners - you have all been victims of a massive hoax. Don't believe a word of it!

so you stayed on the east side,totally different weather to the west side ,its been raining here since friday pm and has eased off now for a few hours before it starts again,temp outside is 13deg, so we are enjoying the forecast heatwave,we could watch it on the telly all day,had to throw out all the melons as it got too cold consistantly to grow them any longer,we did have sun last wednesday,but thats been it,carrots growing since mid july still have no real roots.

[BUFFS]

Hi - how you doing?

I've just spent a couple of fabulous days in Northumberland and Edinburgh. Weather fantastic.

So what's all this nonsense about it being harder to grow veg up here? Warmer here than Cornwall. Are you making things up?

Southerners - you have all been victims of a massive hoax. Don't believe a word of it!

had to add this:- THE SUN HAS JUST COME OUT FOR NEARLY 2 MINS.....as they say on the cartoons...."thats all folks"

[BUFFS]

Bladdy southerners get solar panels...............................................and what do we get................100 foot blummin windmill monstrosities!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting to feel like Don Quixote 'tilting at windmills'

yes,they were organised by the donkeys in westminster..

[snohare]

THE SUN HAS JUST COME OUT FOR NEARLY 2 MINS

Huh - if we had two minutes sunshine here we'd put out bunting !

[zazen999]

so you stayed on the east side,totally different weather to the west side ,its been raining here since friday pm and has eased off now for a few hours before it starts again,temp outside is 13deg, so we are enjoying the forecast heatwave,we could watch it on the telly all day,had to throw out all the melons as it got too cold consistantly to grow them any longer,we did have sun last wednesday,but thats been it,carrots growing since mid july still have no real roots.

You need all that rain to cool down, it's so hot up there.

[zazen999]

Dear God Zaz you trying to start a war???!!

A war? Can't one compliment the Northerners on their fantastic climate?


However, it bit me on the ar$e as yesterday, whilst we were wandering around Edinburgh, it started raining and didn't stop [well, it did for about 18 seconds until Mr Z said 'has it stopped?'] and we left this morning bound for windermere, which was also raining, so abandoned it for Buxton, whilst was also raining so are now at home where - believe it or not, it is sunny, dry and warm.

And to top is all, our cleaner came on Thursday and so the house is lovely and clean.

[BUFFS]

You need all that rain to cool down, it's so hot up there.

end of the day theres always next year,tropical heatwave,bananas growing outside,spanish coming here for their hols,sangria made with scotch,iced deep fried mars bars,sunbeds on saltcoat beach,its all coming with the global warming,just need to let the sun know,and then we will find its had VAT put on it...

[zazen999]

end of the day theres always next year,tropical heatwave,bananas growing outside,spanish coming here for their hols,sangria made with scotch,iced deep fried mars bars,sunbeds on saltcoat beach,its all coming with the global warming,just need to let the sun know,and then we will find its had VAT put on it...

Don't nanas come from Fyfe? [We saw Perthshire Coffee yesterday...or should that have been Persia?]

[SarzWix]

I'd love to live by one of those windmill things, i can watch them for hours....

Same, I love them, so majestic. And so much more attractive than a nuclear power station



Or

[SarzWix]

Oh, and it's rained here pretty much all day, but that's okay, I was too hot yesterday. My northern genes haven't evolved to cope with it yet

[Snadger]

Same, I love them, so majestic. And so much more attractive than a nuclear power station



Or

You'll be saying pylons are a thing of beauty next! If they were like the old dutch windmills I would find them quaint but not those flaming monstrosities!!!!GRRRRR

[zazen999]

You'll be saying pylons are a thing of beauty next! If they were like the old dutch windmills I would find them quaint but not those flaming monstrosities!!!!GRRRRR

But they aren't monstrosities; I can't see what people don't love about them. They are mesmerising. Not good for birds as they fly straight into them but for hoomans; totally absorbing.

[bearded bloke]

A feat of modern engineering is the wind farm on the road outside Palm Springs,there are literally hundreds of them there ......

[Glutton4...]

Yer, but - they is the wrong way up! FFS

They is supposed to go round horizontally, not vertically, that way they don't need so many gears...

[bearded bloke]

Tis a sight to behold G4,quite mesmerizing,then only other thing of note is the small aviation museum on the other side of town